Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006): Dir: Tim Hill / Cast: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly / Voices: Bill Murray, Tim Curry: About as fetching as emptying the litter box. This lame sequel regards two different lifestyles by identical cats. Lame plot has Jon traveling to London to propose to his girlfriend, but his cat Garfield and dog Odie stow away in the luggage. Garfield is mistaken for an identical cat that was left an estate in a will but Lord Dargis attempts to dispose of him thus being the next heir. How animals are able to perform the tasks given is not explained and director Tim Hill is no road map. He previously flushed the Muppets franchise down the toilet with the pathetic Muppets From Space. Breckin Meyer is nothing like Jon although the character was funnier in the comic strip. Jennifer Love Hewitt is flat and really only serves as a pretty face. Billy Connolly gives a bad John Cleese impersonation as the idiotic Lord Dargis. Garfield is voiced by Bill Murray whose contribution doesn't save the film but it provides sarcasm and amusement as Garfield struggles to adapt to this new lifestyle. Tim Curry voices the twin villain of Garfield but that is pretty much the height as to which that role elevates. Garfield looks fantastic as done with computer animation but it fails to translate the comic strip. It leaves more than two tales told by the filmmakers. Score: 2 ½ / 10

Originally published on June 11, 2006:I suppose if I had cared anything for the original live-action "Garfield" (based on Jim Davis' once-popular comic strip, from 2004), I would have liked this one better. Suffice it to say, however, if you have children, there are certainly worse movies you could take them to.I can't think of any of those right now, but I'm sure there are worse ones.Plus, it always grated on me that while the title character is a (very cheap) CGI creation, all of the other animals in the movie are real.What is THAT all about?! Anyway, since it's difficult for a an adult critic (as I have been accused of being at times) to judge a picture like this, I brought along my daughter to see this one with me – just to be fair. When she only laughed at a few parts of this movie, I knew my assessment was not wrong.This is a profoundly and ridiculously stupid film.Based on the much better Mark Twain story of the "Prince and the Pauper," the animated feline (again voiced by a deadpan Bill Murray) somehow gets mixed up with a pampered cat, Prince (voice of Tim Curry), living on a huge English estate.There's trouble afoot, though, as British stand-up comic, Billy Connelly, the nephew of the late owner, wants his share of the property and will do anything to get rid of the animals which inhabit the place, including trying to drown the Prince, shoot a duck and threaten his lawyers with a crossbow.You see, he wants to build a resort on the land and - oh, why even go on? Trying to explain this moronic plot is just wasting time, energy and brain cells. Plus, just because they move the location to the British Isles doesn't mean that any more class or intelligence was added to this stupid series. The dialogue is silly and humorless, the situations are absurd (even for a goofy movie like this), and there's no chemistry between the two leads, Jon Arbuckle and Liz (Brekin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt, even though the whole adventure revolves around Jon prosing marriage to her). Fortunately, we see very little of this tepid couple throughout, so I suppose it's not all terrible.But the biggest crime of all is wasting the talents of Murrary, Bob Hoskins (a bulldog's voice), Curry and Connelly on this enterprise which smells like a full litter box in July.In fact, as allergic as I am to the meowing beasts, I'd rather spend 90 minutes in a room full of them than to ever have to see another "Garfield" flick again.Cat got my tongue? No, just my brain - for the duration of this movie, at least.

Garfield two is a very good sequel,and I love the idea of two Garfields,I think this film is underrated,the film is about a cat who is prince of an estate and gets everything he wants,and John is trying to have the guts to ask Liz to marry him,he then finds out that Liz has vet job to do at London for a while and asks John to come over so he so he decides to ask her there and puts Garfield and Odie in a place were they mind pets but Garfield somehow finds a way to escape and follows John on the airport to London and gets to London,meanwhile down at the castle a dead Queen gets the cat to take over and the Quenns nephew grows jealous and then drives the cat down town and trows him out of the car and drives off,and then the princes butler finds out and drives down town and sees Garfield and thinks that hes the prince and drives back and Garfield gets all the food he wants and starts to enjoy being treated like a prince.

If you read my review for the first Garfield movie, you would remember that I said that very little hopes for it were crushed, right? This one crushes pretty much every hope I had for it. Garfield is now in England, and an uptight British cat that looks a lot like Garfield is there too. They switch places so Garfield gets royal treatment. I thought this movie was going to be great, but I was wrong. It is boring and I only laughed at a few scenes in this whole movie. I do not recommend this to anyone who hates kid movies or wanted a good sequel to the first Garfield. This movie bites.2.5/10 or: D+