Garfield: The Movie Critic Reviews
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The filmmakers obviously understand and love Garfield, and their movie lacks that sense of smarmy slumming you sometimes get when Hollywood brings comic strips to the screen.Read the full review
Not even Bill Murray could save Garfield. Perhaps the comedian -- so pitch-perfect as the sardonic actor in "Lost in Translation" -- got too deeply into character.Read the full review
Cloddish, unfunny dud. Read the full review
Unlike that widely appealing picture with the giant green ogre, this one's strictly for the kiddies. Read the full review
Only very small children still easily impressed by interaction of human actors and CGI quadrupeds will be amused by Garfield.Read the full review
Bland, workmanlike and instantly forgettable.Read the full review
The popularity of Davis' strip represents the ultimate triumph of mediocrity, but even the cartoonist's competent hackwork deserves better than this.Read the full review
There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness. And Bill Murray's off-screen voicing as Garfield adds no "Robin Williams" element to the movie.Read the full review
A black-dressing young intellectual of my acquaintance recently ascribed a "lazy generosity" to Garfield and his daily antics. If so, the movie gets the laziness but misses the generosity.Read the full review
Nothing really works here, and nobody seems to have put in a huge amount of effort, except maybe the marketing department -- there are many product placements.Read the full review
