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.

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

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

| May 30, 2024

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

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

This animated take on the adventures of the plus-sized ginger sourpuss is a refreshing step up from the lazy, lasagne-based humour of the live(ish) action versions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2024

May sport a deep knowledge of film history to delight cinephile parents, but it is still a kiddie movie and comes with the same zany, harried energy one might expect from such a project.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2024

Unlike lasagna, Garfield the cat lacks layers.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 25, 2024

“The Garfield Movie” is a reheated tray of stale lasagna.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 24, 2024

It’s innocuous but jolly matinee fare, a kid-friendly event movie for the whole family.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2024

Garfield has been cured of his depression. Good news for Garfield, I guess. Less so for anyone hoping his new animated film might in any way reflect Jim Davis’s original, misanthropic feline.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2024

There are elements that are too arcane or unsettling for children and not of any special comedic value for adults.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 24, 2024

For an origin tale, there is little here that’s truly reminiscent of the simple comic strip about a lazy cat and his long-suffering owner.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2024

Soon to be infamous for bad decisions, this despairingly off-kilter toon looks like a movie but feels like a cynical cash grab propelled by the idiocy of turning our favorite mouthy, shamelessly lazy cat into a blah action hero voiced by Chris Pratt.

| May 24, 2024

It’s not that it’s unfunny or completely without charm: it’s that the script feels like an abandoned The Secret Life of Pets sequel into which Garfield has been crowbarred.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2024

In all his indolence, even Garfield would have dragged himself up to change the channel.

| May 24, 2024

... It’s just a product that behaves like one – which is a pity, since studio animation is now bolder and more dynamic than it has been for years. Not hellish – but pretty purr-gatorial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2024

Big and loud, with animated action aimed at kids, the film also loads up references to things like Mission: Impossible, Top Gun and Fargo and still manages to feel as stale as a week-old lasagna left out too long in the summer.

| May 23, 2024

Pure kids'-movie-by-numbers. The cinematic equivalent of a Monday.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2024

Jim Davis’ once-witty comic-strip creation is no slouch when it comes to commercial tie-ins, but The Garfield Movie somehow marks some kind of obscene apotheosis of this dark art.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 22, 2024

Audiences have spent decades of mornings with Garfield. We know Garfield. Garfield is a friend of ours. Senator, Chris Pratt is no Garfield.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 22, 2024

This movie has no reason to exist. So why’d you do it, Garfield? I know why. Lasagna prices have gone up and you know this is going to make money as Memorial Day weekend counterprogramming to “Furiosa.”

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 21, 2024