The complicated plotting doesn't make this origin story any more engaging and leaves us wondering why we need to know why our favourite tabby is a grump, although life is purrfect

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 17, 2024

This film is so bad, it doesn't have a credit crawl at the end of it -- it has a rap sheet.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2024

Sure Pratt possesses the right amount of snark in his voice, but to transform one of the world’s most iconically inactive pop-culture characters into an action hero is just plain wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024

The Garfield Movie is an animated movie staring Garfield that does not really resemble a Garfield movie.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2024

Slapstick and decent CGI animation aside, and even grading on that “aimed at very young children” curve, this “Garfield Movie” is slim pickings.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 10, 2024

An inoffensive, not entirely memorable, three-and-a-half-star watch...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

For parents hoping for a bit of nostalgia, you may want to just drop the kids off at the cinema and then sit in the car and fire up the old Garfield cartoons on YouTube.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2024

If you are a lover of old-school animated comedy then you will quickly fall in love with The Garfield Movie. This is a movie that long term fans of the comic books will enjoy but may receive mixed reactions from those not used to the antics of Garfield.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2024

The funniest Mission: Impossible episode Rhames has ever been in.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Unfortunately, this bright, bonkers movie overstays its welcome, and it’s exactly the kind of hyperactive drivel that’s derailing the genre.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

The only reason I went to see this is because it is being shown in 3D. I did not expect much from this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. I laughed, and the story was compelling enough to hold my attention.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 2, 2024

A movie that has name-brand value yet isn’t faithful to its own source material.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 31, 2024

I guess the baby Garfield origins bit is lovely. But the rest is just noise, and there is little evidence to suggest that anyone involved with this ugly, uninspired and largely unfunny feature is even remotely familiar with Davis’s original comic strip.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2024

Hyperkinetic stuff, lots of famous voice stars, almost no relationship to the original source... it just let me thinking of Bill Murray.

Full Review | May 30, 2024

As [Garfield] used to say, “Big fat hairy deal”. What more is there to add?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 30, 2024

Weirdly, the second half of the movie feels as like quite a rushed knock-off of the same plot used for the classic kids flick Chicken Run.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 29, 2024

In the neverending nightmare that is The Garfield Movie, Chris Pratt’s egregious miscasting as the iconic comic-strip cat is just the tip of the iceberg.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

Given the work that goes into animation, it used to feel like these sorts of movies were doing the bare minimum to work on a basic level. As it stands, I would much rather be watching something else while eating my lasagna.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | May 29, 2024

What an unalloyed joy it is to see that the creatives behind this wonderful movie have opted, quite decisively, to preserve all those qualities that have made Garfield an icon of the politically incorrect. Chalk it up as a blow in the Culture Wars.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2024

The Garfield Movie may not be an animated masterwork or a film that provokes deep reflections, but it effectively fulfills its purpose of entertaining with a story that’s generic yet packed with fun moments.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 29, 2024