The Garfield Movie is an animated reboot where the lasagne-loving cat embarks on a dangerous cross-country adventure. But while it works as an entertaining action-comedy, the film fails as a Garfield flick. Created by Jon Davis nearly 50 years ago – and starting out life in a comic strip – Garfield is a lazy orange tabby who loves lasagne, and hates Mondays.
He lives with owner Jon Arbuckle and pet pooch Odie, with much of the action revolving around Garfield manipulating the pair for his own nefarious needs. The character’s sardonic wit turned his tales into the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world, which was followed by a series of primetime cartoon specials, which in turn precipitated a merchandising empire, with plush Garfields stuck to millions of car windows throughout the 1980s. The 2000s saw this moggy make the move into movies, with Bill Murray voicing him in a pair of films that combined animation with live-action.
While now the first , with a star-studded voice cast, several cracking jokes, and some unexpected high-octane action. What is The Garfield Movie about? Multiple narrative devices are used to tell those stories, including voiceover, montage, breaking of the fourth wall, and of flashbacks. The first of which sees young Garfield abandoned by his father down a dark alley on a stormy night.
But the cute kitty quickly finds his replacement in a nearby Italian restaurant, where Jon Arbuckle is dining alone. The pair share pasta and pizza and it�.