Garfield | | Cast : | Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky | | Director : | Peter Hewitt | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 11, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | October 19, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Now the cat gets his turn | Content
 | So far we have live action versions of Popeye, Scooby Doo, and the Flintstones, and now comes Garfield. Which almost all the characters from the show is seen, expect for pretty Binky, the Farm Animals, Al Swindler, Cactus Jake, and any of the other characters from the show that I am not thinking about, or so on the imdb's page from the show. Garfield looks animated, while it looks like a real dog is playing Odie. What they couldn't find a lot of orange fat cats to play Garfield? What could be next a live action movie of the Jetsons, I wonder who they will cast in that role. In the movie Garfield (Bill Murray replacing the late Lorenzo Music) lives with his owner Jon (Breckin Meyer). But then veterinarian Liz (Jennifer Love Hewitt) gives Odie to Jon to take home, and Garfield is not happy about this, and why would a cat be? So one night, Garfield is kicked outside, and before we know it Odie join him outside, and Odie's stuck outside, where he runs away from home, and is kidnapped by a tv show host (Stephen Tobolowsky). You can idmange what it will be like in the morning, but then Garfield realzies it is up to him to save his new housemate. Garfield and Freinds plays in repeats on Toon Disney, so if the kids like this, the introuce them to the show, this movie doesn't have a lot of humor of it to get the critics to hate it, but I am still going to give it a good review through, it seems to me that I love movies like this, but how many more live action movie can we take from an animated tv series, is it wearing out its welcome, it never had? |
| Rating | | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | If this is a turkey, then I'll take a triple portion :) | Content
| I desperately wanted to love this movie. I read all the damning reviews and heard all the negative word of mouth, but clung to my belief that it would be better than everyone seemed to be saying.
So, after all the bad press what's the verdict? Well, I am a loss to understand why the first Scooby Doo was successful enough to get a sequel and yet this cute vehicle starring the lovable, lazy kitty got slammed both critically and commercially.
Don't get me wrong, I like Scooby and the Mystery Inc. group. But any movie that features the (still) incredible looking Jennifer Love Hewitt and Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield is definitely far from as bad as people say.
Okay, let me put in a disclaimer here. I have a weakness of anything with JLH in it - how else can the fact that I liked "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" be explained?
Back on subject, produced by Garfield's creator Jim Davis and starring Breckin Meyer of "Road Trip" and "Rat Race" fame as Garfield's owner Jon, this movie faithfully sticks to the formula that has made Garfield a cultural icon.
The voice of Bill Murray seems to flawlessly fit into the previous Garfield voice of the late Lorenzo Music. Murray triumphs in so perfectly capturing the qualities that Music endowed in the characters television appearances that, put side-by-side one simply cannot tell that the same person didn;'t do the voice of Garfield.
Here we have what could be considered an beginning story. The movie opens with Garfield as ruler of the roost, comfortable and content to be Jon's sole pet. This set of circumstances is soon threatened however when Jon smitten with sexy veterinarian Liz (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt) asks him to take in the talented pooch Odie.
Horror-stricken Garfield does everything to make Odie unhappy, but the dog remains committed to trying to be friends with Garfield - even joinging him on the porch once Garfield is banished from the house.
It is here that GARIFIELD takes a page out of TOY STORY in which a shunned Garfield is forced to rescue Odie from the clutches of an evil television host Happy Chapman who uses an electric shock-collar on Odie to make him perform tricks.
Special mention here goes to Stephen Tobolowsky who plays Chapman. He plays the part just right for the material here, nicely overacted with just the right amount of sneering menace. For the life of me I could not remember what I had seen him in, until I remembered his part of the nerdy game developer whose voice provides the team in one of my favorite spy movies SNEAKERS with access to the villains lair.
The movie is played with such good humor, some true laughs and such a likeable cast of characters (both human, animal and CGI) that its impossible for me to resist its charm. I was caught up in the entire plot and It made me a happy camper. And at a short 82 minutes my only regret was that it was not longer.
Far better than you may have thought, give this DVD a spin and see for yourself. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | this movie stunk hard | Content
| this movie was so horrible. the commercials made is look good. on tv they only showed the parts that were 2 year old funny. it stunk. it wasn't funny. it had bad acting. don't buy this mediocre hunk of junk. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | I love this movie | Content
| I can't tell you exactly why I love this movie... but, Bill Murray delivers. My friends all look at me as if I'm a bit crazy...and I have placed the blame on my 6 year old for our owning this movie... but, I love it. I put it in once a week... there is just something about it that makes me laugh and when you have a 6 year old...you can use all the laughs you can get. Hope you like this movie as much as we (I) do! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | Disappointed | Content
| I let my four year old watch this movie and was really disappionted in the language. I know it was rated PG but I thought Garfield of all characters was going to be okay for him to watch. I knew it was bad when my four year old started to count how many times they said stupid. I am not a strict parent when it comes to movie watching but I also don't like my two litte one's going around saying stupid, butt, damn and ass. All of these words were present in this movie. I don't know why the character Garfield had to say stupid, idiot and other mean things. It's a character for kids young and old....we don't need all of our children learning this disrespectful behavior. Parents can still enjoy a kids movie without having horrible language. |
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