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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
20th Century Fox Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for some off-color elements
Starring
Breckin Meyer,
Jennifer Love Hewitt,
Billy Connolly,
Bill Murray,
Ian Abercrombie,
Roger Rees,
Lucy Davis,
and
Oliver Muirhead
Garfield, America's favorite cat, is going continental. He's traveling across the pond (with canine sidekick Odie) to surprise his master, Jon Arbuckle (Meyer), who is in London to propose to his girlfriend, veterinarian Liz Wilson (Hewitt). (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Animation
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Comedy
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Family/Kids
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Joel Cohen
Alec Sokolow
Jim Davis (comic strip)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Tim Hill
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 10, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Also known as "Garfield 2"

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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is actually funnier and more charming than the first film.

70
Variety
Joe Leydon
A genuinely clever kidpic that should delight moppets, please parents -- and maybe tickle a few tweens.

63
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
When the humans have the sense to keep quiet, and the animals are doing their shtick, there's great fun to be had.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
The stellar array of British talent (voicing the various farm animals) and Murray (whom one suspects has rewritten Garfield's lines to be Murray-esque) give Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties all its energy and make the human actors -- even comedian Connolly -- look and sound like square panels in a two-dimensional comic strip.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Two Kitties marks a considerable improvement over its predecessor. It's faster paced and the filmmakers wisely shift the focus away from bland owner Breckin Meyer and onto a menagerie of chattering animals.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is intermittently amusing, particularly when the American human part of the cast (Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt) are off-screen, the longer and farther the better.

50
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
To borrow and slightly emend the words of Shakespeare: That cat will mew, but this dog will have the day.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
In the ''flesh,'' Garfield himself (voiced by Bill Murray) is once again strikingly unlikable, a bloated, bingeing fascist.

40
LA Weekly
Jim Ridley
Murray's gift for imperious indifference is the only reason to sit through a second for-kids-only movie about Garfield the lasagna-loving cat.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This lifeless, talky, family-oriented feature never manages to rise to the occasion of its witty title.

40
Empire
Helen O'Hara
The predictable plot and gags make you feel like you’re watching it in cat-years, but there are a few successfully silly set-pieces that will delight kids.

38
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Something about the sequel, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, doesn't seem nearly as obnoxious as the original.

38
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Kids should see Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. It'll help prepare them for a lifetime of mediocre entertainment ahead.

38
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Though Murray and Curry gamely deliver some chuckle-worthy one-liners along the way, they're mostly leashed to material as moldy and uninspired as the "Jeffersons" theme song.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
In a town as status-conscious as Hollywood, the embarrassment of two "Garfield" movies on your résumé must sting like the Dickens.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
It comes off like a coughed-up furball: a wan rehash with too many elements of the hard-to-swallow 2004 original.

25
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A crass, tedious sequel.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Children will enjoy the physical humor, but discerning adults are advised to pawn their sons and daughters off on some other unsuspecting chaperone -- preferably one who doesn't read movie reviews.

16
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Tedious almost beyond endurance.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
A Tail of Two Kitties couldn't care less about its human principals, and all it wants its animals to do is air-guitar to "Cat Scratch Fever" and wear silly sunglasses.


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