An average movie

One of the worst thing about the current wave of CGI animated features is that it has made it much easier to combine animated characters in a live-action environment. It means that while ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ was revolutionary back in those days, today, there is nothing really amazing about all those movies. Eventually, the main issue was that all these movies were just terribly underwhelming (‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’, ‘HOP’, ‘Yogi Bear’,…) and this flick was not an exception. I mean, seriously, Garfield is a great character and it was already difficult to move to a feature length format (I’m not sure if it was even doable in the first place) but why would you make a mix live-action and animation while 100% animation would have worked much better? As a result, you have a real dog to play Odie while Garfield is animated and it seemed to be a really misguided choice. On top of that, they completely miscast Jon who should have looked like a younger version of William H. Macy and, to make things worse, they added a terribly underwhelming romantic angle involving Jon and a veterinarian played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. At least, Garfield was pretty cool and Bill Murray was a great choice to voice the lazy cat but that was the only redeeming feature in this boring flick. To conclude, it is not really good and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10