Garfield: The Movie Movie Review 2004

The best thing that this escapee from the comic pages has going for it is that fat, nap-taking, lasagna-loving orange cat Garfield (a CGI-creation) is perfectly voiced by the sardonic Murray. The lazy feline dominates nice guy owner Jon (Meyer) and is appalled when life in paradise is threatened by the arrival of excitable mongrel Odie, who arrives via Garfield's sexy vet, Dr. Liz (Hewitt). Naturally, Garfield does his best to get rid of his doggy nuisance until Odie winds up in the clutches of nasty TV show host Happy Chapman (Tobolowsky), who's a decidedly unhappy guy. So it's Garfield to the rescue! Despite the daily comic strip, Garfield's long past his cultural prime, so it's a mystery how he made it to the big screen, especially in this unfunny, slapstick exercise in tedium.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 80 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Animation & Cartoons, Adapted from Comics, Cats, Live Action/Animation Combos, Comic Adventure, Veterinarians

Screenplay

Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow

Cast

Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Evan Arnolds Christopher

Cinematography

Dean Cundey

Director

Peter Hewitt

Music

Christophe Beck

Other

Bill Murray, Debra Messing, Brad Garrett, Alan Cumming, David Eigenberg, Nick Cannon, Jimmy Kimmel, David MacMillan, Peter E. Berger, Suttirat Larlarb, Marie France, Alexander Hammond

Producer

John Davis, 20th Century-Fox