This movie, for me, is a mixed bag. I think it's a charming movie that has a ton of enjoyable moments and good entertainment, but it's also extremely anchored down by the fact that this film does an awful job staying true to the comics it's based off of. The only thing it did well with staying true to the comics is Garfield himself, as he looks great in this movie, and I think Bill Murray did a great job in his role. But, everything else just doesn't feel right. Nermal, instead of being the cutest cat in the world, is just an ordinary cat. Same thing goes for Arlene, as nothing about her is reminiscent to her comic counterpart. Jon is also completely different than what he should be. Jon's supposed to be a middle aged-ish, sometimes clueless and grumpy, yet good hearted pet owner, but in this film, he's a late 20s-early 30s shy guy that's more worried about getting a date than taking care of his pets. I mean, come on. Were the writers of this film even trying? Also, Garfield is the only one who's actually animated and looks most like his comic counterpart, while literally everyone else is just normal animals. I don't get it, because all the other animals were cartoon like too, but Garfield's the only one to get the treatment? I get that he's the main star of the film, but it's jarring to see everyone else as a normal animal while he just sticks out like a sore thumb. But despite all these major flaws, I will admit that I did find the film entertaining, as it does have a good enough flow to be watchable and enough funny and heartwarming moments to be thoroughly enjoyable. It's a movie that's definitely easy to sit through and can be enjoyable with the right mindset for it. I think kids who've never read the Garfield comics will probably get a kick out of this film. However, despite this movie being watchable, that still doesn't change the fact that this film left out somewhere around 80% of what made the comics good to begin with, and I can't recommend this film to anyone who are fans of the comics, as all it'll do is just disappoint everyone who's expecting to see there favorite comic remade for the big screen, as this film does a pretty terrible job at it. But, like I said, this movie is still pretty fun to watch, so I say to those who are not big fans of the comics to check this movie out, as it's definitely enjoyable for the most part, at least in my opinion. Overall, this is a fun movie that fails miserably to replicate the comics. With that said, just remember to proceed with caution.

I just want to say that this movie wont let you bored every scene and every second this movie makes you laugh. I would personally recommend this to my friends and to you. You would wonder why a grown up person would like this. It doesn't mean that if it's animated it's for toddlers only. So moving on this movie has a good animation and a good story or a good plot and the most important thing is that you would learn lessons. Garfield the Movie is a Comedy film and slightly Romantic on some parts. When I first watched this movie I taught that it's just so simple that the story would only revolve on a cat, Garfield. But no it also tells the story of some different characters and that's what makes the movie good. I assure you It's good.

I was an 11-year old kid at elementary school and I've watched this with some friends I made on a DVD copy from my teacher. I thought, "Hey. This may not be so bad." While the movie did caught my interest, I had pretty low expectations because I think that this is a mediocre adaptation of the comic strip that I've read once. Not terrible, but could've been much better.The story is thin as paper for containing a lot of plot holes. Bill Murray tries with the best material as the title character, but came across as monotonous and the villain played by Stephen Tobolowsky, while entertaining, didn't convince me at all and so is Breckin Meyer as Jon, the owner. The jokes will make kids laugh, but adults won't find them funny, I think.There are some redeeming qualities including Odie the dog. Jennifer Love Hewitt is great as Liz, the love interest for Jon due to her personality and beauty. The locations for the film are excellent too and while not hilarious, there are some funny moments with Garfield especially in the beginning of the film and the air-duct scene. The CGI on Garfield are decent too and the dialog seemed OK-ish.Overall, not great, but could have been better!

Garfield is a great family movie with great humor and a good storyline.Garfield is without a doubt my favorite comic strip character,I would usually read him at the back off the paper and I also use to love the series,I think that Bill Murray definitely had the perfect voice for Garfield.This movie shows you the origin of how Odie and Grfield first met,showing that Garfields owner John got the dog off Liz and Garfield being very jealous at the start.After John takes Odie to a dog show.A man called Happy Chapman wants to use Odie to advertise his dog products,Odie gets out of the house one night and goes missing and Happy Chapman finds him and does exactly what he had planned to do.Garfield see's Odie on TV but John and Liz are unaware,Garefield decides to head on a journey to save the dog who he realizes he is missing.