Garfield
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 68 Ratings
- Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky
- Summary: Garfield marks the long-awaited motion picture debut of America's favorite feline and the world's laziest cat. (20th Century Fox)
- Director: Peter Hewitt
- Genre(s): Comedy, Family
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Positive: 2 out of 31
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Mixed: 10 out of 31
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Negative: 19 out of 31
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75The 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.
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In short, it's an almost flawlessly innocuous entertainment for kids.
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38The filmmakers find "laughs" in sadistic violence.
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38Garfield the comic strip stopped being funny about 10 years ago. Garfield the Movie makes it to about the 10-minute mark before tedium sets in.
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Positive: 17 out of 44
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Mixed: 4 out of 44
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Negative: 23 out of 44
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8It has captured the spirit of the show an awful lot better than it could have, and it results in a family movie that is actually a ton of fun.
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a decent adaptation of our lovable comic strip character
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What "Garfield" doesn't have is the sophisticated humor the comic had. What it has is a messy dialogue with a terrible script.
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