The Garfield Movie - Review 

I respect Dan's decision to adhere to the preferences of a cartoon cat, regarding when he should upload his video.

Im shocked Awkwafina is not voicing a character in this movie

There should be a tally on Awkwafina vs Chris Pratt voice roles. I feel like they are head to head by now. Because....why does every animation need both of them?

Fun Fact: This is the second time in Garfield media where we get to see his parents. The first time was with “Garfield On The Town” where we get to see him reunite with his mother.

I bet making Garfield as a slice of life comedic drama in the vein of a Studio Ghibli movie like My Neighbor Totoro or Ponyo could have been great while still adhering to the spirit of the comic strips.

0:39 The Emperors New Groove came out when I was 10, it was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen, still, my favorite Disney movie to this day

The whole “main character meets long lost father” plot looks so painfully cliche

The one giant eye design makes me so uncomfortable.

"Ya Know, Because he's a cat" had me rolling.

I'm a HUGE Garfield fan. Unfortunately it jumped the shark into the 2000's. I think the magic and the humor of Garfield comes from its core characters: Garfield (of course), Jon, his dorky owner who can't get a date, and Odie the stupid dog. He doesn't have to venture outside his home. But that's just me.

Garfield was a show with unbelievable dry humor and strangely deep insights into life and ennui. They should have left it alone.

Why have I not subscribed to this channel? Subbed!

The insinuation that there is such a thing as a "Garfield purist" is about as believable as a straight-faced review of a movie about Garfield.

Niiiice intro! 😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ETA: Love the Honest Trailers shout out! I miss the old gang...

At least this movie will make me fall in love with “I’m Sorry Jon” all over again.

Fun Fact : In the previous Garfield movie, Bill Murray who voiced Garfield took the role because he thought the script was written by Joel Coen of the Coen Brothers when it turned out, he misread the last name as the script for his movie was written by Joel Cohen, a completely different person which shocked Murray after he signed on 😂😂

It's-a me! Garfield! Waa-ha!

I do love Garfield nostalgically and watch the Garfield Christmas cartoon every holiday season. I'll probably catch this one on streaming or maybe the theater if I find a free time for it.

Dan’s rating: Two-and-a-half out of five plates of lasagna.

I can't believe Chris Pratt actually said he doesn't care for lasagna.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody in Hollywood hires Chris Pratt to voice Scooby Doo or The Cat In The Hat 😂😂

Great review Dan, I appreciate the work you put into every review - even Garfield.

This makes me want to see what a high budget Garfield movie that much less animated would be like, since he isn't a very active character anyway.

This is the exact entertainment I needed for the a lazy Sunday

The edit at 2:45 made me laugh. Love your work, Dan.

Epic deep Garfield joke at the opening. Chefs kiss

Loved the shoutout to Spencer! 🥲

Great video Dan!

Should have released this on a Monday.

So not only do you have a Ted Lasso reunion, you also have a Pulp Fiction one as well

Very good review Dan.

Wow nice job Chris. Really inspired work there...

the top gun moment made me smile

That intro was god tier level :)

Living for the Spencer shoutout lol! I wasn’t going to see this movie but these reviews are always a must see!

Dans opening Dad(n) jokes never fail to crack a smile on my face

My five year old is excited for this movie because of the 2007 show… gosh I hope he isn’t disappointed!

I saw it last Sunday too.

It not Snoop Dogg it’s Snoop Lion 😂

Looks fun family film.

Is the Furiosa-Garfield opening weekend this year’s Barbenheimer?? GaRiosa?

Maybe it's just me, but I'm still baffled at how Garfield, as a franchise, has managed to cling on this long.

I applaud the first Monday home 👏🏼

I grew up reading Garfield, and buying the collections at Scholastic Book fairs. I guess my kids would be the target market, except they are in college. Guess I'll skip this one, and go back to reading Garfield minus Garfield.

I grew up on GARFIELD. Read the comics and watched the cartoon. I was cautiously optimistic about this movie, but it sounds like it's not for me. I may see it eventually anyway, but it doesn't sound like I need to make much of an effort to bother this weekend. Thanks for the review, Dan!

I had no idea there was a Garfield movie actually coming out.

Hey Dan did you see that HBO is doing a movie pass doc?

It's kinda impressive that 6 of the 8 mins in this video are just of Dan telling you in different ways that it is kids movie only kids will like but not adults.

Good review. I’m one of those “Garfield purist”. Not really , but I’ve known the character since the comic strip was good and the animated specials were charming. I know most of what they do with the character nowadays, including the strip in its last years, is usually dull and uninspired, but I had some hopes in this movie. It could have worked too. I understand why they’d think the strip is too simple for a movie plot or that kids nowadays prefer a faster pacing. What I don’t get why they felt the need to rush all the parts that were more intrinsically Garfield. I mean, fast paced montage about his misadventures in Mondays? Ok, it’s a new, more dynamic way to show these gags. But If you are not going to use any of those Garfield antics during the rest of the movie you may as well expand some of those gags a little bit. If you want to create new secondary characters well, it’s ok, but they are just decent, not better than most secondary characters from the script. For mature Garfield fans giving Liz, Nermal, Pookie or even Jon so little to do seems weird but I’d argue it is also weird for children who don’t know the characters. Why did they make a great deal about Jon in the first act and then not having him doing anything substantial? At the very least, even if he didn’t appear much in the second act he could have helped more in the third. The animation in the movie is great and it does try to match some of fhe peculiarities of the strip and the slapstick humor, which is probably more Looney Tunes than Garfield is very well done. So yeah it’s ok for kids, but Mark Dindal I think is a good director (Chicken Little was bad but Emperors New Groove and Cats Don’t Dance were very good) and I think he could have done something better or at least funnier with a better script.

No Awkwafina??

Hollywood today: "Lets make an original character!" "NO but we can just make whatever we want and put it in skin people will recognize"

I've had a better time chasing my tail then watching Garfield

Cute Monday joke. 😉

Wow, had no idea there was even a new Garfield movie coming out.

When I watched the movie I was thinking Sony tried to do a Pixar movie with Garfield in it. Now I know why. Thank you, Dan! ☺️ The movie itself is not bad. But it is like "The Fall Guy" movie. Colt Seavers in the movie is not Colt Seavers. And Garfield in this movie is not Garfield.

Can we please stop casting non-voice actors for animated movies? I get there are exceptions like Jack Black or Mark Hamill, but most animated characters can carry themselves independently without the need for celebrities to bloat the budget.

I can’t wait for this movie to sweep the Oscars.

Bill Murray is the hero we need for this movie. Ghostbusters 4: Frozen Empire already made $200 million.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Chris Pratt loves lasagna.

I was expecting the intro to say you watched the movie on Sunday... in 2004

chris pratt looks like phil spencer in that pic lol

I’m curious, but I’ll wait for Netflix.

My only complaint about this video is... Just kidding. No complaints. Love ya, Dan.

but wait: is Akwafina in it? it's an animation movie?!

Just saw it. I dug it.

Sold out for advanced tickets.

Intro joke working

My daughter loved it

I HATE when studios use celebrities for voice acting. Now when I listen to Garfield talk all I’m going to be able to hear is frickin Chris Pratt! He’s fine,but give some other,more struggling actors a shot! Someone whose voice I DON’T know! It takes me out of the movie,when all I can think about is something this person posted on Twitter yesterday. Give some random guy off the street a shot at becoming the voice of Garfield!

I saw the trailer for Garfield before The Phantom Menace and I just remembering thinking how generic and non-specific everything seemed. Like the main character would be swappable to any furry animated mascot. At least, going by Dan's review, the trailer is selling the movie accurately.

This should've been a hand drawn animated movie, inspired by the 80s cartoon, with no celebrity voice actors, just talented voice actors I will never understand the rationale for having celebrities doing the voices. Who is the person that says , "Wow , celebrity X is doing the voice, i have to see this now!"

I’m gonna go see the movie tomorrow. If it’s bad, then I’ll still have Garfield and Friends. And the Garfield Show

I feel like giving this the title of “something you put on to keep your kids quiet for an hour and a half” is selling the movie kinda short. While obviously not as engaging as other movies, it’s harmless enough to where most parents wouldn’t have to groan whenever their kid wanted them to watch it with them.

So many celebrities. I get wanting the name attention but the trend of voice work not going to voice actors has been a staple for so long. Just kinda sad to think about. Granted the audience does not care. Many of the biggest and loved animations just hired celebrity voices and they always do just fine. From shrek to how to train your dragon to spiderverse etc but i still think its a bit sad.

The original Garfield strip was never really designed for children - although the writer Jon Davis did then do a number of strips/collections aimed more at children. Garfield is basically sarcastic, manipulative, cynical, lazy quick thinking and greedy but he can also be hyperactive - particularly in the pursuit of food or when he's had too much coffee - so l never imagined him to be laid back rather quip-smart and snarky - and because he liked lasagne somehow I imagined him having an Italian-American accent. Bill Murray's voice was too slow for the character and Chris Pratt is just - well - Chris Pratt. I didn't like the previous films and l'm pretty sure l wouldn't like this one but then l'm not the target audience. Appreciate the review as always!

I loved Garfield growing up and his voice from the series (Garfield and Friends) is his voice. All others are wrong. His voice needs to sound lazy because he is Garfield.

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Bill Murray as Garfield was perfect casting. Just needed to be in better films. Not sure why Chris Pratt is in every movie ever and what unique things he offers (seems like a nice guy tho).

Spencer J Gilbert, Shout out!

I mistakenly heard Dan say "...great writers for Amish trailers" 😅

I’m a fan of og Garfield. It’s a shame that they didn’t take inspiration from the og specials. Good I passed on this one. It looks like it will be a flop.

I don’t know, I feel Snoop Dogg voicing Garfield might be more interesting… he has that lay back attitude in real life that might work for Garfield… 😂😂😂

Wait til you guys hear that Marvin Gaye song

Now I’m craving lasagna.

Shrek movies had cast full of lovie stars and yet they were all amazing. Movie star /= lackluster performance. This is a modern quality control problem//laziness

Wait.....did we get an animated film that doesn't have Awkwafina doing a voice?

This was pretty funny on the positive, but not the greatest plot.

My take is lots of what you said. I'm 57. Garfield was at his height of popularity when I was a teenager. A large part of Garfield's appeal is the sardonic, adult sense of humor. Although he reportedly thought the whole experience was beneath him, this is why Bill Murray left a classic imprint of Garfield in his portrayal, especially the first movie. A patently, unambitious ball of fluff is not the treatment Garfield deserves as a character. Garfield is funniest in his home and his neighborhood. He's just a hungry, apathetic, self-absorbed cat, not a super spy. The need to turn him into one is indicative of the lack of understanding of or imagination with the character of Garfield.

You gave this a pass over Ghostbusters. Having seen both, I don't get it.

How many more franchises does Chris Pratt need to punch before he gets a free sandwich?

Garfield was never a go to character for me even in the prime of his popularity. It was just an okay show with dumb repetitive jokes.

orange cats are awesome, lasagna is gross

It's just a weird direction for a movie, because the Garfield comics were never for kids, they're mainly about very adult situations, and most Gen Alpha kids have never even heard of Garfield, so why would you create a movie about a comic strip character that's going to be mostly recognizable to Gen Xers, but make it for a target audience of young children? I mean this isn't like a Super Mario where you have a character that has had a resurgence of popularity among the younger generations, it's a character that hasn't be relevant in pop culture for 20 years.

Gah! The animation style of this movie makes me wish I didn't have eyes!

It looks so cheap, like a low budget kids tv show.

I didn't like this at all. I didn't find it funny, and the kids in the theater weren't laughing. On top of that, the flagrant product placement for Sony, Olive Garden, and (the final straw) Walmart really upset me.

I love Chris Pratt, but they really need to stop giving him voice work he has one voice his own.

Animation is for all ages And I’m very excited to see this and people are being harsh on this movie

For me It was a 4/10 Movie

This was the most not a fan it's fine review ever