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.
There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
11 Jun 2004
rotten:
Though Garfield runs barely 80 minutes, it seems a good hour of it involves chases, furniture and luggage collapsing, and grown-up actors madly mugging.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
13 Jun 2004
rotten:
... a film without energy and without spirit.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
14 Jun 2004
rotten:
No one can accuse Garfield: The Movie of infidelity to its source: It faithfully conveys the banality of Jim Davis's cartoon.
– Ben Kenigsberg,
Village Voice,
15 Jun 2004
rotten:
Without Murray, the film would have much less appeal.