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As we prepare for our national day of gratitude, take a moment to give thanks for one last funny performance from sitcom icon Don Knotts. Appropriately for the season, Knott’s final movie role was providing the voice of anxious cartoon bird Mayor Turkey Lurkey in Disney’s 2005 Chicken Little.

There’s more than a little Barney Fife in Mayor Turkey Lurkey, a trembling public official full of false bravado. That’s no coincidence — the character was 100 percent based on Knotts’ comedy performances of the 1960s. Supervising animator Dick Zondag says the film’s director, Mark Dindal, wanted some big Don Knotts energy for the character.

“I’m a huge Don Knotts fan, actually,” Zondag told The Province in 2005, via MeTV. He knew that Dindal wanted more than straight-up Knotts — “he wants Don Knotts from The Ghost and Mr. Chicken or the Barney Fife Don Knotts.”

With Knotts on board to provide voicework,...

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2024 has been a great year so far, with brilliant animated films released this year. While the year started out slow, but after Inside Out 2 came out in theaters and broke every conceivable record, it was off to the races. We compiled a list of the best animated films we could find that came out this year. So, rest up gather your family for most of these films, and enjoy these best-animated films of 2024.

Transformers One (Paramount+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Paramount Pictures

Transformers One is an animated sci-fi action film directed by Josh Cooley from a screenplay co-written by Eric Pearson, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari. Based on the Transformers action figures by Hasbro, the 2024 film follows the origin stories of Optimus Prime and Megatron who were once friends before turning into each others’ arch nemesis.

In the 23 years since the Best Animated Feature category was introduced at the Oscars, Pixar has dominated, racking up an impressive 11 wins from 18 nominations; its last victory was in 2021 for “Soul.” Walt Disney Studios has four trophies to show for its lucky 13 nominations while DreamWorks has gone 2 for 14, including the first-ever Oscar awarded for Best Animated Feature, which went to “Shrek.” Studio Ghibli also has a pair of prizes, and is the reigning champ with “The Boy and the Heron.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Animated Feature.)

That marked the second win for Japanese auteur Hayao Miyazaki, who had prevailed for “Spirited Away” 22 years earlier. Miyazaki crafted the only two hand-drawn movies to win this race. Two stop-motion flicks — “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — have prevailed. The other 19 winners were all done with CGI.

Updated: October 10, 2024

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Last week, Joseph McGinty Nichol's YA adaptation "Uglies" found its way to No. 1 on the Top 10 U.S. Netflix films charts despite being critically panned and ridiculed on social media. The film's popularity might have been due to curiosity about its premise; it takes place in a post-war dystopia that forces a specific, homogenous idea of beauty upon its populace. This is not a surprise, as Netflix charts have often underlined the popularity of baffling titles, but we have already moved on from the Joey King-starring YA thriller to an animated comedy film about a sassy tabby cat.

Yes, Mark Dindal's "The Garfield Movie," wherein Chris Pratt voices the titular orange feline, is currently at the top of the U.S. Netflix film charts, having dethroned "Uglies" for the time being (via FlixPatrol). The supremely entertaining "Rebel Ridge," along with the recently released "His Three Daughters" (which...

Kids watch some terrible movies. I should know, I have two of them. A24, the independent film and TV studio that has become synonymous with quality, is out to change that.

On September 4, A24 published the 288-page “Hey Kids, Watch This!,” a collection of more than 100 movie recommendations for families. None of them, by the way, are A24 films. The curation was performed by a group of “discerning critics, animators, and directors,” according to a press release. IndieWire’s own chief film critic and reviews editor David Ehrlich contributed a primer on how to talk about movies with your kids.

“Hey Kids, Watch This!” covers both hits and deep cuts. How deep? Has your preschooler seen Yuri Norstein’s 10-minute short film from 1975, “Hedgehog in the Fog”? Right, mine neither. Are the ’70s not ancient enough for your young-Old-Hollywood head? How about the 100-year-old film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” from German director Lotte Reiniger?...

Chris Sanders' and Dean De Blois' 2002 animated film "Lilo & Stitch" was released by Disney and was part of what might be considered a "low" period in the studio's history. Disney had a series of bangers in the 1990s, a period often referred to as the Disney Renaissance. That period came to an end in 2000 with the release of "Dinosaur," however, a technology experiment featuring life-like dinosaurs realized in CGI. That was followed by multiple expensive bombs, one right after the other, and almost all the films (from "Fantasia 2000" in 2000 through to "Bolt" in 2008) were costly misfires.

Only two from the period stand out. Mark Dindal's slapstick comedy "The Emperor's New Groove" and "Lilo & Stitch." The latter is deeply beloved by the children who saw it in 2002, and appreciate both its warmth and its weirdo edge.

"Lilo & Stitch" is a riff on "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," wherein a young child,...

Your browser does not support the video tag. Screen Rant presents a gag reel clip celebrating the home release of The Garfield Movie. The clip features stars Chris Pratt, Hannah Waddingham, Harvey Guillen, and more. You can rent or purchase The Garfield Movie today.

The Garfield Movie brought Jim Davis iconic temperamental housecat to the big screen once again. Written by David Reynolds (Finding Nemo), Mark Torgrove (Raising Hope), and Paul A. Kaplan (George Lopez), the movie was helmed by The Emperors New Groove and Chicken Little director Mark Dindal. The movie sees its titular tabby reunited with his estranged father, only to be swept into a heist scheme by his fathers partner-turned-nemesis, Jinx.

Screen Rant is happy to present a behind-the-scenes clip from the home release of Garfield: The Movie. In it, audiences can see Garfield: The Movie cast members including Chris Pratt, Harvey Guillen, and Hannah Waddingham in action,...

American cartoonist Jim Davis’ most beloved creation, the orange tabby cat, Garfield, is back on the screens with The Garfield Movie, directed by Mark Dindal. The usual tales of gulping down junk food only to get rid of immense boredom, which is the subject matter of many Garfield comic strips, make way for a grander adventure, though, as the domestic cat is kidnapped from his home and is reunited with a major character from his personal past. Only with the company of his beagle best friend, Odie, must the protagonist find his footing in the wild and find a way to help others and himself in this mostly average animated adventure comedy film.

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What is the Film about?

The Garfield Movie begins on one very usual morning for the anthropomorphic orange tabby cat protagonist, Garfield, whose very personality is defined by gluttony and laziness. Being as intelligent as any average human,...

“The Garfield Movie” animated feature, is directed by Mark Dindal, starring Chris Pratt as ‘Garfield the cat’, available July 9, 2024 to,purchase or to rent digitally :

“…’Garfield’, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure.

“After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat ‘Vic’,…

“…Garfield and his canine friend ‘Odie’ are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist…”

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Trae Patton. Copyright © 2023 Ctmg, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **All Images Are Property Of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. For nearly four decades, Garfield has charmed us through comic strips, cartoons, books, and two hit films featuring the voice of Bill Murray. Now, in the latest animated adventure, MCU star Chris Pratt takes the reins as the voice of the iconic lasagna-loving feline. Stepping into the paws of such a beloved character, voiced by a comedy legend like Murray, might seem daunting. However, Pratt, with his signature coolness and charm, embraced the challenge with a Fonzie-like ease. He credits director Mark Dindal for easing any potential pressure during their initial conversations.(Click on the media bar below to hear Chris Pratt) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Chris_Pratt_Pressure_Voicing_Garfield_.mp3 You can catch Pratt’s Garfield in The Garfield Movie, still playing in theaters nationwide.

‘Del Revés 2’ le arrebata el primer puesto a ‘Dune: Parte Dos’.

Entramos en el ecuador del 2024 y repasamos cuáles son hasta el momento las 10 películas más taquilleras del año.

10. Bob Marley: One Love (Reinaldo Marcus Green)

Sorprendentemente, el biopic de Bob Marely se cuela en el puesto número 10 de la taquilla mundial. La película es una celebración de la vida y la música del icono que inspiró a generaciones a través de su mensaje de amor y unidad. Por primera vez en la gran pantalla, se nos muestra la apasionante historia de superación de Bob Marley y el viaje que hay detrás de su música revolucionaria. Protagonizada por Kingsley Ben-Adir (“Barbie”) como el legendario músico y Lashana Lynch (“The Marvels”) como su esposa Rita.

Disponible para alquilar.

9. Amigos Imaginarios (John Krasinski)

“Amigos Imaginarios” es la única película original del top 10, ya que no forma parte de ninguna franquicia, secuela y tampoco es un biopic.

The Garfield Movie Box Office (North America): Surpasses Chris Hemsworth’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

The Garfield Movie leads the US box office chart with steady and decent earnings. Despite staying behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on its debut weekend, it has moved up the chart, pushing Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor Joy’s movie behind. The film’s Tuesday numbers are in; keep scrolling to know the deets.

Mark Dindal directed the movie, and the screenplay was by Paul A Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds. The voice actors of the 2024 animated adventure comedy movie include Chris Pratt, Samuel L Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillen, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. Overall, this is the third Garfield movie, and it might surpass the previous ones in terms of box office collections. It is currently the second...

When the Russo brothers were asked about the sub-par run of recent entrants in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they had a categorical response – it was fatigue. For the past few years, the word superhero fatigue has been the buzz word. But the Russo brothers believe it to be something more, a fatigue with movies across the board. With the advent and multiplication of content, they believe that movies are beginning to lose their charm. But The Garfield Movie might have shown them the mirror.

The Garfield Movie has won everyone’s hearts

The faithful readers of Garfield comics are in love with The Garfield Movie | Credits: Sony Pictures

Featuring the likes of Chris Pratt, Nicholas Hoult, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames, and Hannah Waddingham, The Garfield Movie was expected to create a buzz amongst the fans. And it did. Audiences acknowledged director Mark Dindal’s genius. After all, it’s not...

It’s not all doom and gloom at the global box office as a handful of films reached milestones this week. 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has topped $300M worldwide, while Paramount’s If and Sony/Alcon’s The Garfield Movie crossed the $100M mark.

Through Tuesday, Apes is at $178.1M international and $306.8M global; this past weekend was its third frame. The Wes Ball-directed pic crossed the $300M milestone with Monday’s numbers.

The Top 5 markets through yesterday are China ($25.8M), France ($18.1M), Mexico ($15.9M), UK ($14.5M) and Brazil ($7.8M).

Meanwhile, Paramount’s If from John Krasinski, which topped $100M with Sunday’s business, now has $43.7M from the international box office for a $110.5M running global cume through Tuesday.

Its friendliest markets so far are the UK ($8.2M), France ($6.9M), Mexico ($5.8M), Australia ($3.6M) and Germany ($2.3M).

Next to release are Israel,...

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (May 3-5) Total gross to date Week 1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros) £2m £2.6 1 2. If (Paramount) £1.6m £5.5m 2 3. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) £1.6m £11.1m 3 4. The Garfield Movie (Sony) £1.5m £2.8m 1 5. The Fall Guy (Universal) £752,359 £9.9m 4

Warner Bros’ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opened top of the UK and Ireland box office this weekend with a total just shy of £2m.

The Fury Road prequel debuted in 715 locations, making for a £2,753 location average, and has a total of £2.6m including previews and the bank holiday Monday.

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Henry Cavill’s Argylle suffered tremendously not only at the box office but also in the critic reviews. The spy thriller film helmed by Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn led a promising introduction with its star-studded cast, but even with the tandem of The Witcher star and John Cena, the movie still flopped.

Henry Cavill in Argylle / Universal Pictures

Meanwhile, the animated adventure comedy film The Garfield Movie is making waves on its weekend premiere. The beloved cat is definitely attracting viewers out of pure nostalgia, and funnily enough, its box office debut earned higher than Argylle’s worldwide gross!

The Garfield Movie Director Reveals Why The Character Remains Timeless

Director Mark Dindal talked about the inspiration behind creating The Garfield Movie and why it remains a popular figure throughout the decades. He told Animation Scoop:

There’s a universal quality to him, which there has to be because he’s been around for 45+ years.

The legendary orange tabby gets a 2D-looking makeover for “The Garfield Movie,” the fully animated origin story (voiced by Chris Pratt). That’s in stark contrast to Garfield’s hyper-real look in the previous live-action/animated hybrid movies (voiced by Bill Murray).

In the reboot, the lasagna-loving Garfield is abandoned as a kitty by his scruffy street cat dad, Vic (Samuel L. Jackson). Then he forms a family with Jon Arbuckle (Nicholas Hoult) and pup Odie (Harvey Guillén) and is reunited with Vic for a dangerous adventure. This involves a revenge plot, a dairy heist, and a train chase finale featuring weaponized Italian food, as well as flat camera work evoking the comic strip format.

Director Mark Dindal (“The Emperor’s New Groove”) was game for an origin story with untapped vulnerability, and selected Pratt after watching the actor profess his love of snack food and laziness.

“The idea that Garfield...

It’s a bit of a wasteland out there for theaters this summer, as Memorial Day weekend is closing out a very underwhelming May on a down note. Warner Bros.’ “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is projected to open well short of the industry’s prior estimates for a $40 million-plus bow over the four-day window. The high-budget action epic is practically neck-and-neck for first place over Sony’s animated adaptation “The Garfield Movie” on domestic charts.

The fireball “Mad Max” prequel sputtered to $10.2 million from 3,804 locations across Friday and preview screenings. It’s got Imax and other premium large-format auditoriums to bolster its ticket sales, too. It’s another tough underperformance this summer. The film’s 2015 predecessor “Mad Max: Fury Road” got to $16 million in its opening day. That movie also put together an impressive awards season run and got canonized by action genre fans. Even so, “Furiosa” seems unable...

The Garfield Movie has arrived in theaters ahead of Memorial Day to kick off the summer fun alongside Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The animated feature film stars the titular orange tabby cat in a coming-of-age story based on Jim Davis’ iconic cartoon strips and an adapted script from David Reunolds (Finding Nemo) based on an earlier draft from Paul Kaplan & Mark Torgove. Mark Dindal (Chicken Little) directs the creature feature.

With Chris Pratt bringing Garfield to life and Samuel L. Jackson voicing his streetwise and long-list father Vic, the film boasts quite an ensemble of voice actors that further contribute to Garfield’s adventure. Ted Lasso alumni Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham lend their familiar vocals to the movie as do Saturday Night Live alumni Bowen Yang and Cecily Strong.

Those thinking that they’ve heard certain characters in The Garfield Movie voice cast before can check their guesses...

Stars: Chris Pratt, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Guillén | Written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, David Reynolds | Directed by Mark Dindal

Garfield (Chris Pratt), as we all know, is a cat who loves lasagne but hates Mondays. Abandoned by his dad in an alleyway in the rain, Garfield teams up in life with Jon (Nicholas Hoult), and Odie (Harvey Guillén), who become his new best friends. Garfield has an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father Vic (Samuel L. Jackson), who draws him into a high-stakes heist.

If you Google it, there have probably been more Garfield movies than you have ever realized. The Garfield movie from 2004 is the one that made the most waves, with follow-ups such as Garfield’s Pet Force understandably flying under the radar. Somehow, the lazy orange cat has been on everyone’s radar 20 years later with The Garfield Movie, and after seeing it,...

"Let it roll!!" Sony Pictures has debuted a final official trailer for the funny Garfield movie, which is playing in theaters today. They're really hoping this will be a hit with a final marketing push! The Garfield Movie is directed by Mark Dindal, the animation filmmaker also behind The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little. The amusing plot has Garfield reuniting with his long-lost father, a scruffy street cat, then ending up involved in a high-stakes heist with him. Starring Chris Pratt as the voice of the sarcastic, lasagna-loving tabby, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson as his father Vic, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Ving Rhames. This new trailer doesn't feature much footage - it's only a clip playing over and over of Garfield with Odie on a robot vacuum going back and forth. That's it. With the "Let It Roll...

The upcoming Garfield Movie features an ensemble cast led by Chris Pratt, with Samuel L. Jackson and other talented actors. Despite past lackluster Garfield films, this new installment has already shown promise with strong international box office numbers. Chris Pratt's track record in blockbuster films suggests he could potentially elevate Garfield into a lucrative franchise.

There have been several notable voice actors who voiced the iconic animated cat Garfield before Chris Pratt took the role in The Garfield Movie. The Garfield Movie will be the first feature film about the lasagna-loving and Monday-hating feline protagonist since 2006's Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (directed by Tim Hill), which was a sequel to 2004's Garfield: The Movie (directed by Peter Hewitt). Despite the decade-spanning popularity of the Garfield character, both films received poor reviews from critics, with the 2004 movie earning an abysmal 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and the sequel getting a score...

“The Garfield Movie” is an upcoming animated feature, directed by Mark Dindal, starring Chris Pratt as ‘Garfield the cat’, with Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, and Bowen Yang, releasing May 24, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Garfield’, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat…

“…is about to have a wild outdoor adventure.

“After an unexpected reunion…

“…with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat ‘Vic’…

“…Garfield and his canine friend ‘Odie’ are forced from their perfectly pampered life…

“…into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist…”

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A baffling misunderstanding of the charm and appeal of the grouchy cartoon cat is one of many reasons to hate this atrocious new take, along with the many, many ads

There’s not that much to Garfield. Understanding the orange tabby of funny-pages repute is pretty simple: he has a set of integral, inalienable traits – his ill temperament, his cynical outlook, his sedentary lifestyle, his motivation primarily in self-interest and his indifference to owner Jon Arbuckle – that define the grouchy yet likable pop-cultural fixture. Any depiction of a Garfield that eschews these qualities, even while adhering to such superficial markers as his love of lasagne or hatred of Mondays, ceases to be Garfield at all and instead becomes a common cat by any other name, no different than Get Fuzzy’s Bucky, or worse, the godless bastard Heathcliff. In fact, insofar as Garfield-ness is inscribed from the feline personality model...

Chris Pratt voices the famous tabby cat Garfield, in a brand new animation. Here’s our The Garfield Movie review.

The 24th of May in the year of 2024 will be a lovely day. If 2023 was all about Barbenheimer – the weird, but wonderful combination of Barbie and Oppenheimer – 2024 is the year of… Garfuriosa.

We’ll work on the title, but The Garfield Movie and Furiosa, two very different films, are arriving in cinemas on the same day. The Garfield Movie, Mark Dindal’s family-friendly animated adventure may have fewer cars, less action and no fake noses, but there’s much to enjoy here, especially for the kiddos.

Naturally, the film follows the titular tabby (and a little tubby) cat, Garfield, talking in the voice of Chris Pratt here. He is abandoned by his father Vic (Samuel L Jackson) as a kitten, but he spies a lonely human, Jon (Nicholas Hoult) across the street,...

The Garfield Movie debuts to a 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. This score is disappointing but still an improvement over the two Bill Murray adaptations from the early 2000s. The Garfield Movie has the potential to repeat the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The Garfield Movie has now debuted on Rotten Tomatoes, and the film is a big improvement over the Bill Murray movies. Directed by Mark Dindal, Pratt voices the eponymous orange cat in the upcoming film, with actors like Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult, Snoop Dogg, and Cecily Strong rounding out the rest of the Garfield Movie cast. The movie is the latest adaptation of the iconic American comic strip character after two live-action movies in 2004 and 2006 in which Murray voiced the titular cat.

Ahead of the film's theatrical release, The Garfield Movie debuts on Rotten Tomatoes to a lackluster 49% with 37 reviews, as of this writing.

There will be moviegoers at the Memorial Day weekend box office; the industry can be thankful for that. Just not as many as the previous two years when the entire 4-day frame exceeded $200M+.

With Warner Bros’ prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Alcon/Sony’s The Garfield Movie hitting marquees, the volume of event product increases, which is good thing. More big movies give people more reasons to attend. Unfortunately, both titles are not Top Gun: Maverick ($160.5M all-time Memorial Day opening record) nor is it last year’s The Little Mermaid stateside start ($118.8M) in their mass appeal.

Furiosa is both a reboot of the Mad Max franchise and a prequel as Anya Taylor-Joy steps into the one armed action of Charlize Theron, who fans of the George Miller franchise are still rabid about when its comes to the desert vigilante’s big screen portrayal. After a...

When the news broke that Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt would lend his voice to the title character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the response was mostly negative.

The actor ultimately proved his detractors wrong and, despite mixed reviews, the 2023 release went on to earn over $1.3 billion for Illumination at the worldwide box office. Can The Garfield Movie find a similar level of success this weekend?

While that remains to be seen, the first wave of reviews isn't particularly kind. In fact, as we write this, The Garfield Movie has a disappointing 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

That's a "Rotten" score, but The Super Mario Bros. Movie has only 59% and families don't tend to pay as much attention to these scores as regular filmgoers. Looking through the verdicts, however, it seems Pratt may have phoned in his performance here as, unlike his previous animated projects, the actor is taking...

The Garfield Movie brings the popular Lasagna-loving cat back to the big screen. There were two previous movies about the cartoon cat, with Bill Murray as the voice of the CGI live-action films. However, the new movie is fully animated and is targeted at younger audiences and families.

Here is a look at The Garfield Movie release date, cast listing, and where you can stream it when it arrives.

What Is The Garfield Movie Release Date?

The Garfield Movie hits theaters on May 24, 2024. Directed by Mark Dindal, who also directed Disney’s animated classic The Emperor’s New Groove, this is two months after its initial release date, as Sony and Columbia chose to push it into the summer months to ensure a bigger audience when school lets out.

For those who wait for streaming, the movie won’t likely hit at-home screening until the end of summer, at the earliest.

The Garfield Movie Image: Dneg Animation In this increasingly cynical age of recycled intellectual property, it’s probably not surprising that we would get a new cinematic adaptation of Garfield, especially given the original comic’s perpetual status as meme fodder for every online generation to rediscover. However, what’s...

The Garfield MovieImage: Dneg Animation

In this increasingly cynical age of recycled intellectual property, it’s probably not surprising that we would get a new cinematic adaptation of Garfield, especially given the original comic’s perpetual status as meme fodder for every online generation to rediscover. However, what’s most...

Before becoming one of Hollywood’s most beloved leading men, Chris Pratt lived in an apartment behind the TLC Chinese Theater. Well into the early morning, he would wander on the Walk of Fame and stare at the stars beneath his feet, wondering if his time in the spotlight would ever come.

Pratt returned to the Hollywood landmark on Sunday, not to lament over broken dreams, but to help introduce Garfield creator Jim Davis as he cemented his signature outside the TLC Chinese Theater at “The Garfield Movie” premiere.

“[He] absolutely rocked the part,” said Davis about Pratt’s performance as the lasagna-loving cat. “You laugh just listening to [his] kind of timing. He also has the ability to go over to the softer side and to sound angry and stuff like that. So, it’s not just the humor, but his ability to bring out all sides of the character.”

Starring Pratt,...

The Garfield Movie, premiering in 2024, centers around Garfield's reunion with his biological father. Featuring a star-studded cast including Chris Pratt, the film is the franchise's first animated theatrical release. Despite mixed reviews, the movie is expected to be a box office hit due to its family-friendly themes and famous cast.

The first animated theatrical release based on the iconic lasagna-loving cat, The Garfield Movie, features a cast full of well-known names, including Chris Pratt, who voices the eponymous character, Garfield. The 2024 animated adventure comedy film, directed by Mark Dindal and written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds, tells the origin story of how Jon Arbuckle found and adopted the orange tabby cat when he was a kitten. However, the central plot of The Garfield Movie revolves around Garfield's reunion with his biological father and the dangerous heist the older street cat gets his son (and Odie) into.

After voicing the leads in The Lego Movie franchise, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and now The Garfield Movie, Chris Pratt has established himself as a go-to voice for iconic animated characters. But after doing these multiple roles, how does he make each voice unique?

At the Los Angeles premiere of Garfield on Sunday, Pratt walked The Hollywood Reporter through each of the different voices, noting that as Emmet in The Lego Movie, he “aimed at something that was different than myself — it was kind of inspired a lot by Bill Hader’s voice and his character in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and for Mario, “you had to find some version that was different than myself but not hardcore Mario from the games because that would grow a little tiresome, I think.”

For The Garfield Movie, director Mark Dindal told Pratt he had always imagined the star’s...

Consider what we know about Garfield the cat: He’s orange, a little plump, he loves lasagna, he hates Mondays, and — ah, well, that’s about it. Enough information to fill about four comic strip panels, wouldn’t you say? And yet, somehow, this lazy kitty and his very mild exploits have inspired three television series (with one more on the way), a dozen prime-time specials, and three feature-length films.

While previous cinematic iterations of Garfield’s story have stretched his adventures to wacky ends — the 2004 “Garfield: The Movie” essentially acted as an origin story, while its 2006 sequel “Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties” put a “Prince and the Pauper”-ish twist on his life — the latest in a long, looooooong line of Garfield adaptations goes in the opposite direction. Mark Dindal’s garishly animated “The Garfield Movie” — not to be confused with “Garfield: The Movie” — inserts a beloved feline...

Get ready for a new animated Garfield film starring Chris Pratt set to break box office records in May 2024. Don't miss out on the theatrical release of The Garfield Movie, showing in theaters starting May 24, 2024. After its theatrical run, The Garfield Movie will stream on Netflix, with a likely release date in September 2024.

Garfield is back in a new movie, and there are different options for where to watch 2024's The Garfield Movie. Sony's animated movie brings Jim Davis' iconic orange, Lasagna-loving, Monday-hating cat to audiences in a new way. After two previous Garfield movies that had Bill Murray voice a CGI version of the cat in a live-action setting, The Garfield Movie is a fully animated film starring Davis' creation. It was announced with Chris Pratt providing the voice of Garfield, continuing his run of voicing legendary characters after tackling Mario for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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The Garfield Movie offers humor but lacks originality, overshadowing the main character with a bland story and better characters. Chris Pratt's voice performance is decent, but Ving Rhames steals the show as Otto. Despite an emotional father-son storyline, The Garfield Movie feels lackluster and fails to bring anything new to the table.

As one of the most famous fictional cats out there, it's no surprise that Hollywood is keen to build a franchise on Jim Davis' Garfield, the lazy lasagna-loving pet who loathes Mondays above all else. Yet, more than ten years after the misfires that were Garfield: The Movie and its 2006 follow-up, which even star Bill Murray has disavowed, the cat's prospects haven't exactly improved. The newest attempt at making the character happen, The Garfield Movie, is already at a disadvantage due to its lead star.

4/10 ProsThere is the occasional genuine bit of humorThe voice cast is goodConsThe...

It says a lot about the human condition that we all love “Garfield.” Jim Davis’s nearly 50-year-old comic strip tells the ongoing story of Jon Arbuckle, a lovelorn sad-sack loser, and his snide, pompous, hedonistic cat Garfield. Neither of them are conventional heroes. They rarely even leave their house. Jon symbolizes the misery that stems from seeking external acceptance, while Garfield symbolizes the inner peace that stems from accepting yourself, vices and all. Or maybe it’s just about kicking helpless dogs and eating lasagna. Your mileage might vary.

The point is there’s something about “Garfield” that endures. So they keep cranking him out in every way imaginable and we keep buying it. That comic strip is somehow still running, even though the funny pages are harder and harder to find. The cat’s iconic face has been slapped on clothing, toys, video games, telephones, typing tutorials and...

The lasagna-obsessed feline with a near-pathological aversion to Mondays, who first came into popular consciousness in the late ‘70s as a comic strip, is a diluted version of himself in “The Garfield Movie.” Not only is his suave apathy mostly replaced by an excessive excitedness with only sporadic glimpses of his endearingly negative qualities, but this Garfield jumps off trains, stages a heist, and is subjected to trite physical comedy by way of numerous predictable action sequences. The ordeal mimics a rehashed plot from the dull “The Secret Life of Pets” franchise with Garfield forcefully plugged in.

All of these choices amount to a production that fundamentally misunderstands Garfield’s appeal as a lovingly indifferent, self-centered glutton whose greatest aspiration is to do nothing and have all his needs catered to him. It’s a Garfield movie for audiences who have never heard of Garfield, which reads as an attempt...

As anyone familiar with cartoonist Jim Davis’ iconic feline character knows, Garfield doesn’t like to move around very much. He likes to eat, particularly pepperoni pizza and lasagna, and he likes to lie around and make sarcastic comments. In other words, he’s not a cat of action. And yet for some reason, the creators of the new animated film revolving around him think that what the audience really wants is to watch Garfield engage in Mission: Impossible-style, stunt-laden violent mayhem. It’s as if Charlie Brown was starring in the new James Bond movie.

And in case you think I’m stretching things to make a point, The Garfield Movie employs the Mi theme during one scene and features that film series’ Ving Rhames as the voice of a bull who orchestrates the derring-do. After one particularly harrowing sequence, Garfield, voiced by Chris Pratt, comments, “In case you’re wondering,...

The summer movie season could use some help, and Chris Pratt might just be here to save the day. The "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Jurassic World" actor returns to the silver screen next weekend in "The Garfield Movie," an animated take on Jim Davis' orange, Monday-hating cat. For Sony Pictures, there is one big question; can some of that Pratt magic that made "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" ($1.36 billion worldwide) such a major hit last year rub off on this one? Even a fraction of that magic would be most welcome here.

"The Garfield Movie" is opening directly against George Miller's "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." While the animated, family-friendly film would typically have the edge, it looks like "Furiosa" is going to win the weekend in the early going, with an opening between $46.5 and $59 million. But that doesn't mean this cat is out of luck, as Sony...

‘The Garfield Movie’ marks Garfield’s return to the big screen. It travels to the origins of an endearing character, of the classic cat loved by children and adults alike, with just the right dose of laughter and tears.

In ‘The Garfield Movie’, the origins and family of the famous cat are explored, but in a much more respectful way, with nuances that do justice to the original material. We see how the tiny Garfield finds Jon, his master, how he meets his real father again, and how this leads to an adventure trip. The topic is, in reality, sad – the reconciliation of a son with a father he does not know. At certain moments, this works well and is even moving; in others, the need for the gag dilutes the effect. The strangeness of the film consists of the desire to combine a good story with a certain density.

Chris Pratt brings Garfield to life in the upcoming movie, exploring the origins of the iconic lasagna-loving cat and his hilarious adventures. The Garfield Movie's star-studded voice cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, promises a fun and exciting high-stakes heist in the film. Pratt delves into Garfield's rebellious nature and the deeper themes that have made him a beloved character for generations.

The Garfield Movie follows the world-famous orange cat who hates Mondays but loves lasagna. When the pampered house cat is unexpectedly reunited with his long-lost father, a scruffy street cat named Vic, he sets off on a whirlwind adventure. Pulled out of his cushy life with Jon Garfield, and his canine companion Odie, join Vic on a high-stakes heist full of hilarious hijinks.

Garfield has captured hearts and minds since the comic, created by Jim Davis, first launched the comic strip in 1978. Now the orange cat will not...

Chris Pratt received a perfect review score from Garfield creator Jim Davis for his voice in the upcoming The Garfield Movie. Pratt expressed gratitude to director Mark Dindal for guiding him to embody Garfield, reacting to the news of Davis' review for the first time. The actor was pleasantly shocked by Davis' recognition, feeling proud to voice a character he admired as a child.

Ahead of his starring role in The Garfield Movie, Chris Pratt reacted to character creator Jim Davis' perfect review score for his voice in the upcoming feature film. The movie sees Pratt take on the role of the classic orange tabby in the upcoming animated adventure comedy. The actor previously portrayed Mario in 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, making this the second year in a row he'll be voicing a classic pop culture character.

Speaking with Screen Rant, Pratt learned that Davis, who created the...

Annecy International Animation Film Festival has unveiled the programme for its 2024 edition, including the Competition line-up and a programme of previews from the major studios.

The 12-strong Official Competition includes Adam Elliot’s Australian feature Memoir Of A Snail, in which Succession star Sarah Snook voices a lonely hoarder of ornamental snails; and stop-motion Savages!, director Claude Barras’ first feature since his Bafta- and Oscar-nominated My Life As A Courgette.

Scroll down for the full Competition line-up

The festival will open with Michel Hazanavicius’ Competition title The Most Precious Of Cargoes, heading to Annecy from its debut in Cannes Competition.

"I let it roll, I let it ride, I let it go, I let it slide right by." Sony Pictures has debuted an amusing music video for The Garfield Movie, and since it kind of counts as another trailer (it's all footage from the movie) we're posting it below. The Garfield Movie is made by Sony Animation and Mark Dindal, the filmmaker who also directed The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little. The plot features Garfield reuniting with his long-lost father, a scruffy street cat, then ending up involved in a high-stakes heist with him (and Odie). Chris Pratt stars as the voice of the sarcastic, lasagna-loving tabby, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson as his father Vic, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Ving Rhames. The cute teaser trailer debuted last year, and the official trailer arrived a month ago. This track features...

“The Garfield Movie” is an upcoming animated feature, directed by Mark Dindal, starring Chris Pratt as ‘Garfield the cat’, with Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, and Bowen Yang, releasing May 24, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Garfield’, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat…

“…is about to have a wild outdoor adventure.

“After an unexpected reunion…

“…with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat ‘Vic’…

“…Garfield and his canine friend ‘Odie’ are forced from their perfectly pampered life…

“…into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

The Garfield Movie is ringing in Monday — Garfield’s least favorite day — with a new action-packed trailer.

While the first trailer shared the wholesome story of how Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt) entered Jon’s (voiced by Nicholas Hoult) life, the latest preview gets to Garfield’s unexpected reunion with his biological dad, Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson).

Garfield’s life at home with Jon and Odie is “pretty near perfect” — that is, until he’s kidnapped by a massive pitbull and sent to Vic’s whereabouts. Vic enlists the help of Garfield and Odie, never mind that he hasn’t been there for his son since he was a kitten.

“I haven’t seen you for years and when I do, you’re on the run from a deranged cat,” Garfield points out. But he eventually agrees to help Vic out, with an adventure unlike anything the lasagna-loving cat has experienced.

Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming ‘The Garfield Movie.’

Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.

Directed by Mark Dindal, the cast includes Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang.

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The movie hits cinemas first on May 18th and 19th, before a full general release on May 24th.

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“The Garfield Movie” is an upcoming animated feature, directed by Mark Dindal, starring Chris Pratt as ‘Garfield the cat’, with Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, and Bowen Yang, releasing May 24, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Garfield’, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure.

“After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat ‘Vic’,…

“…Garfield and his canine friend ‘Odie’ are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist…”

Click the images to enlarge…...