Garfield: The Movie

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Garfield: The Movie

PG

2004

1h 20m

Kids & Family

Comedy

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Based on the popular comic strip, this live-action comedy follows the exploits of Garfield (Bill Murray), the large, lazy and wisecracking cat owned by hapless Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer). Jon's other housemate, Odie, is a dim but sweet dog who frequently annoys Garfield. When the conniving orange feline gets fed up with Odie, he devises a way to get rid of the pooch. However, after Garfield has a change of heart about Odie, he must find a way to get his fellow pet back.

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Critics Consensus

When the novelty of the CGI Garfield wears off, what's left is a simplistic kiddie movie.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/24/2010

3/5

Cat-astrophic for adults, but kids will love it.

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Dave Calhoun

Time Out

06/24/2006

Without Murray, the film would have much less appeal.

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Neil Smith

BBC.com

08/07/2004

2/5

The result is not so much catnip as catnap.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/08/2020

2.5/4.0

A nice, safe family film.

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

04/22/2019

2/5

Even Bill Murray, who provides the cantankerous cat's voice, can do little with the material at his disposal and when he bursts into song, Lost in Translation seems like nine lifetimes ago.

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Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

01/17/2016

1/5

I felt the same misery, despair, offense and nausea while watching this film as I did The Cat in the Hat.

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Vincent W

@Gojirilla5419 Nov 4

Absolutely awful, it isn’t even entertaining in the slightest…

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James B.

@Jestzer Oct 14

I enjoyed Garfield’s crude humor as a child. As an adult, he’s just insufferable, poorly-aged CGI. At best, this made me sad.

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Jul 4

the fact this MASTERPIECE has a low rating on here PMO 100/100 - yeah, you read that right. BIG 100

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T85 J

Jul 3

To directly point it out: Yes, the CGI is horrific and definately aged like milk (it already was so by it first release). But I actually enjoyed the movie a little bit. I found the plot fine and the jokes weren't insufferable. The movie looks weird but for me it doesn't matter as much.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jun 20

Funny in 1 1/3 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG for Brief Mild Language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $75,400,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed in 2004 in color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Alejandro F

Jun 12

It's great if you don't think about other peoples bad attitudes about it.

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Synopsis

Based on the popular comic strip, this live-action comedy follows the exploits of Garfield (Bill Murray), the large, lazy and wisecracking cat owned by hapless Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer). Jon's other housemate, Odie, is a dim but sweet dog who frequently annoys Garfield. When the conniving orange feline gets fed up with Odie, he devises a way to get rid of the pooch. However, after Garfield has a change of heart about Odie, he must find a way to get his fellow pet back.

Director: Peter Hewitt
Producer: John Davis
Screenwriter: Joel Cohen, Jim Davis, Alec Sokolow
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Davis Entertainment Classics
Rating: PG (Brief Mild Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 11, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $75.4M
Runtime: 1h 20m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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