The Garfield Show

The Garfield show is a nice little fun show for anyone of any age who like Garfield the character!!!

This show opens up the world of Garfield the most of all the different t.v shows the orange cat has had. I grew up reading & watching Garfield & like millions of others i loved that lasagne loving cat & i used to watch the old school cartoon Garfield & Friends where he had episodes & then the farm/barnyard characters had episodes it was great fun.

The BRILLIANT extremely talented voice actor legend Frank Welker is now the voice of Garfield & you wouldn't know the difference as he's that good!!! The original voice was the legendary Lorenzo Music R.I.P.

Anyway this is a lovely fun colourful show full of the characters we love & full of silly fun & harmless humour. There's adventure round every corner & it's nice to really explore garf's world & Jon's house. Just good Garfield fun.

"Garfield and Friends" is something I highly recommend. As with most people, I grew up with it and still love it to this day. "The Garfield Show" is good, it is nice to watch and quite entertaining, but in terms of charm and fun it is inferior. It is not quite the Garfield I grew up with. That said, the CGI animation here is very good indeed, with colourful background art and sharp character features. The theme tune is nice as well, and the voice acting was decent. Frank Welker is a brilliant voice actor, and while no Lorenzo Music who owned the character of Garfield, he is good. Oadie is quite adorable, then again I have always loved Oadie. And Jon is appealing enough. There are shortcomings however. One is the writing, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the dry and witty dialogue that made "Garfield and Friends" so enjoyable. Garfield's asides especially weren't as laugh out loud funny here. Another is Garfield himself, as I've said Welker was fine as his voice, but Garfield isn't quite the same here. He does eat a lot, thank goodness they didn't miss out the fact he loves lasagne, sometimes mischievous and not always that nice to Oadie, but here he isn't lazy enough. Also some of the stories are a little unoriginal and predictable. In conclusion, it is nice, but is it the best Garfield show out there? No, Garfield fans may be disappointed, but those looking for some harmless fun will like it. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Garfield Show is an okay series and fits the character of Garfield well, but there are two things that bring it down.

1. The dated CGI. It isn't the worst 2000s era CGi animation I've seen, but it's definitely worse the wonderful 2D animation of And Friends.

2. THE SONGS. Garfield Show had these specials during Season 3 or 4 that HAD to feature musical number. Yeah, let's halt the whole show just to let Garfield sing about how he's the king of cats to some lion cubs! GREAT IDEA!

But then again this show is how I found Garfield as a whole, so it gets some brownie points for that. My recommendation: dip your shoe into it once, then run back the Garfield and Friends.

In this review I'm only talking about the facts. That should explain to you why it got a 6 instead of a 1 or a 2 compared to other reviewers.

The Garfield Show isn't a good cartoon, but shouldn't be watched as a last resort if their is nothing good on the TV. The first thing that should be said about the show is that it has very well done graphics. These are what Garfield characters should look like in 3D animation. The characters act like how they should, and have pretty good voices. Thank goodness. There is only one true problem with the show. A majority of their episode have poor stories. 35% of their plots are good. The rest are mediocre. There is this one episode where Garfield saved the Earth from alien Lasagnas. Yeah that's some story. One thing the Garfield show does perfectly, is breaking the forth wall. Even though it's way over used, It's good to know that it's never done badly. The Garfield Show is a cartoon that could have done better. In the end it stayed decent.

I really wanted to like this show, seeing as how I'm a huge fan of Garfield, but the animation and storylines just don't do it for me. The characters don't look all that bad, but I've definitely seen better CGI. Garfield is a thousand times cuter in the movie Garfield Gets Real than he is in this program. Oh yeah, by the way, what is up with the size of his feet??? Why are they so gigantic??? I think that looks incredibly dumb. A lot of the episodes are also stupid, even for a kid's show. I can count on my hand the episodes that made me laugh hard. Otherwise, I usually stop watching a majority of them halfway because they're just too dull and/or over the top silly, to the point of being more idiotic than humorous. In one episode an alien lands on earth to recharge his spaceship, comes to Garfield's house, cancels out gravity, so objects start floating around. In another episode, a little boy living in the neighborhood who's a wannabe mad scientist shrinks Garfield. In a third episode, a humongous squid makes its way into the city sewer and sucks Odie in, so Garfield has to save him. Really? What is the targeted age group for this show, preschool? If it is, I could see a child getting bored watching this. Kids are a lot smarter than people give them credit for. I understand The Garfield Show isn't supposed to be educational, but the writers could put in more of an effort to think of creative situations for the characters. There is a funny episode that has a slight problem. Garfield encounters a mouse who's supposed to be a little girl. She's extremely inquisitive - asking questions at a rapid fire speed (I don't know if this was intentional by the writers, but it's like she has high functioning autism and ADHD, because not only did she talk a mile a minute, but she would jump from one topic to another). She gets kidnapped by one of the alley cats, and he gets so annoyed by all of her questions that he tells her to shut up, more than once. I was surprised to hear that kind of language. I've never heard a character say that in a kid's show, and I've watched A LOT of cartoons over the years. My suggestion: if you have children, and you're introducing them to Garfield for the first time, watch Garfield and Friends. The plotlines of the episodes are way better. Plus I wouldn't want kids to think this show represents what Garfield originally looked like.