I Watched The Garfield Movie So You Didn't Have To...

Spoilers ahead! We'll be going through the plot in chronological order! Though if you've seen the trailers, they basically grab from every scene anyway.

Chris Pratt would have made a better John than a Garfield.

Maybe its just me, but the further we get away from the original Garfield strips and cartoon, the weirder this IP gets.

"John they made a mediocre movie about me john"

I mostly thought the movie was just not a Garfield movie. It felt like if you removed Garfield from it and replaced it with any other character, it wouldn't change how you feel about it. some parts were funny, but that was mostly the slapstick.

Just saw the movie today and i personally loved it. Though, I do agree that Jon didn't get a big enough role. Also, if anyone noticed, Nermal was in the film for about a second, he gave Garfield food. Noticed several references to Binky the Clown aswell, which was a nice touch. 9/10 for me, my friends who were at the cinema with me liked it too.

I bet that there's an entire R-rated version of this movie based on the voice-acting outtakes alone.

I think that we need to all say to movie marketing people stop putting all of the jokes into the first trailer

I’m going to be honest: as a Garfield fan since childhood, I loved this movie. The slapstick was fantastic and there were in-jokes and references aplenty. I’d say it is a huge improvement over Mark Dindal’s last movie, Chicken Little.

I didn't think the movie was bad at all. As a Garfield fan, i kinda like the scene when they copied off older strips and plonked them into the movie. btw the fact that his father didn't mean to abandon him, but he let him go with a total stranger (aka john) feels iffy tho.

Nermal appears at the end for 3.5 seconds and it hurt my soul

Despite how bad those films were, Bill Murray will always be an infinitely better Garfield than Chris Pratt .

You know, Andrew Adamson should have directed a Garfield Movie with Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy as Garfield and Odie, respectively

Does anyone else remember the Garfield and Friends TV show? That was the GOOD lasagna

At least with Bill Murray his voice does have a bit of a Garfield tone to it that fits the character, Chris Pratt's voice on the other hand... Is just Chris Pratt, nothing Garfield about it at all.

To be fair I feel like this is clearly a film that was aimed at an older audience despite its child like design. A lot of younger kids nowadays just weren't really familiar with the character of Garfield like people were who grew up in the '90s and similar times I feel like this movie kind of played it safe because it's aimed at an audience that is not the typical audience for movies The sort of 30-50-year-old demographic Like it almost feels like this film was kind of made by boomers for boomers as opposed to really being made for children It was essentially intended to be a comfort movie for Grandma and Grandpa who grew up in the simple humor and Garfield filled world of the previous generation

I'm dreading the answer to this question, but do I prefer the lack of smartphones in movies like this just because I'm old? I'm 34, so I've used smartphones for about half of my life, but I still like when animated movies of old properties just ignore the existence of smartphones. The Peanuts Movie was wonderful. Do younger people feel that way at all? I think I answered my own question. I'm just old.

The plot of the garfield movie sounda like it would fit a heathcliff the cat movie

Dazz scientifically finding the weirdest spot to make the thumbnail text pass through

I think when most of the movie is in the marketing, it means the only target audience is kids. Because then the parents can see how "safe" the movie is for their kid before they go watch the movie. It's not surprising, it is a Garfield movie. You don't really expect a Garfield movie to be for an older audience.