2004 · comedy · family · coming-of-age
Garfield
Directed by Peter Hewitt1h 20m2004
Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.
Our read: Garfield (2004) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · family · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How Garfield feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want painless Bill Murray cat comedy with early-2000s nostalgia.”
Skip it tonight — You expect sharp wit matching the comic strip or hate CGI critters.
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