“The Garfield Movie” Review | About as Exciting as Mondays
Like Garfield passively consuming boxes of lasagna every Sunday, The Garfield Movie passes over viewers with all the intrigue and nuance of stale bread. The latest big-feature adventure with the iconic orange house cat has light moments of amusement spread throughout thanks to the comic strips-inspired animation, but the wider picture results in a tedious animated kids film with very little at all to say. And don’t give me the “it’s made for kids” argument — kids movies are allowed to be good movies. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Garfield loves his life. He lives in a nice house with his owner and dog companion respectively, John and Odie, and has access to almost limitless amounts of food from a variety of sources. The lazy orange cat’s peaceful life is abruptly interrupted when, after being captured by two canine henchmen, reunites with his absent father Vicn who abandoned him the day he met John. Vic has some unfinished business with feline crime lord Jinx; in order to return home, Garfield and Odie team up with Vic to settle the score with Jinx….and probably learn some life lessons along with way. You know where this goes, don’t lie to me.
If the filmmakers and studio behind The Garfield Movie were going to make a film out of something that ultimately worked as a 3-panel comic strip, why did they…
