seansohr

The Garfield Movie? More like The Garbage-field Movie.

I wanted to see this in theaters but never got the chance.

Finally seeing it on Netflix the other night, I realized what a huge mistake (and waste of money) that would have been.

Bland, paint-by-numbers, cliché, dumb generic plot, out-of-character, and most of all, BORING.

Even the 2004 movie is better than this. GARFIELD GETS REAL may even be better than this.

Who needed this? Who WANTED this? Nobody. This was just another soulless cash grab, a corporate piece of nothingness.

And it's blatantly obvious too from all the product placement in the movie and the story just going through the motions with no real twists or quirks to make it interesting. The characterization is way off too.

As far as I'm concerned, this is not canon, and I will refuse to acknowledge its existence going forward.

I hadn't seen this movie in many years, but holy moly I do not remember it being this BORING.

This was an absolute slog to get through. Two hours of grungy, gloomy tedium.

And it's not like animation can't do superheroes right, either. I love the original Powerpuff Girls, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Moon Girl for example.

This however seems more in line with the Marvel movies, which are of absolutely no interest to me.

If you're expecting typical Pixar fare, or anything like the shows I mentioned above, you will be extremely disappointed.

Clearly this movie has quite a legacy and fanbase, but I am definitely not part of that fanbase.

"Coincidence? I think NOT!" and the black dude arguing with his wife are the only memorable things about this snoozefest.