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Directed by
Peter Hewitt Written by
Jim Davis, Joel Cohen Cast
Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bill Murray, Evan Arnold [more]
Release Date
• USA: Jun 11, 2004
• UK: 30 Jul 2004
DVD Release Date
• R2: 26 Nov 2004
Budget USD 50,000,000
BoxOffice: $75.3M
Official Website:
Garfield Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for brief mild language.
Running Time
1 hour, 15 minutes
Country USA
Studio Davis Entertainment
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Garfield: The Movie
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Garfield Reviews |
If you’re a fan of “Garfield,” then I suggest you stay away from the fat cat’s big screen debut. Stripping away the essential cartooish nature of the character and his world, and replacing it with a wheezy story and shameless product placement, this new “Garfield” feature might not immediately offend children who are unfamiliar with the feline, but for the already initiated, this movie is an insult. [read review] D
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
...a misguided attempt to construct a feature-length vehicle around a cartoon creation who was barely tolerable over three panels. Even with Bill Murray voicing the tubby tabby, Peter Hewitt's cat-astrophic caper is mangy enough to make the most undemanding tot have kittens. [read review] 
--Neil Smith (BBC Films)
The movie is as lazy as the notoriously indolent comic-strip cat who likes nothing more than lasagna and a snooze. Garfield looks weird here as the only CGI character amid real animals whose mouths move "Babe"-style. [read review]
--Jami Bernard (New York Daily News)
GARFIELD is a downright cat-astrophe, with Jim Davis' lasagna-loving fe line headlining the most atrocious part-live-action movie featuring a badly animated talking animal since the notorious "Howard the Duck." [read review] 
--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
...while Garfield isn't great by any stretch of the imagination, it doesn't completely suck either - thanks primarily to Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen's script and Bill Murray's voice work. [read review] 
--David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
...Garfield has combustible energy but lacks creativity. It’s marginally better than The Cat in the Hat, though that’s like saying suffocation is mildly more amusing than drowning. [read review] 
--Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
When it comes to comic adaptations, ‘Garfield: The Movie’ is a resounding success and here’s to hoping that this isn’t the last we see of the lovable fat cat on the big-screen. [read review] 
--Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
This is another talking cat movie based more on attitude than on jokes, and while that can be amusing, the whole thing starts to get pretty tiresome by the second half. [read review] C+
--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
What the filmmakers ask us to root for here is a hero that is self-centered, lazy and boring. And with that as the lead, the movie lays there like an icky CGI furball. [read review]
--Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
This a neutered Garfield, one part tomcat and three parts pussy, recognizable only by his orange coat and love of lasagna. This feline's got a serious case of mange. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The best I can say is that it wasn't necessarily any worse than I expected, but then again, my expectations couldn't have been much lower going in. [read review]
--Ed Owens (CineScene)
Better than it has any right to be, thanks to impressive CGI work, some good gags and a note-perfect purrformance by Bill Murray. [read review] 
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
"Garfield: The Movie" is faithful to "Garfield" the comic strip in that both are benign, obvious and unfunny. [read review] D-
--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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