Garfield: The Movie / Garfield As Himself - The Movie

Comedy

Evan Arnold	Wendell
Jennifer Love Hewitt	Liz
Mark Christopher Lawrence	Christopher Mello
Breckin Meyer	Jon
Bill Murray	Garfield
Stephen Tobolowsky	Happy Chapman
Vanessa Christelle	Miss Ace Hardware

Director	Peter Hewitt
Producer	John Davis; Michele Imperato
Writer	Jim Davis; Joel Cohen; Alec Sokolow

Every now and then, the CGI effects in Garfield: The Movie are less than perfect--which makes you realize how astonishingly seamless the rest of the effects are. When Garfield's owner, Jon (Breckin Meyer, Clueless), agrees to take in a homeless dog so as to flirt with a sexy veterinarian (Jennifer Love Hewitt, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Garfield does his best to oust the dog from the house. But when a greedy television performer (Stephen Tobolowsky, Bossa Nova) kidnaps the mutt for his own nefarious purposes, Garfield sets out on a rescue mission. Garfield is a terrible movie, yet there's something weirdly compelling in its awfulness. Bill Murray (Rushmore, Ghostbusters), who voices the fat cat, has mastered a comic style that wallows fondly in ridiculousness. Perhaps, seduced by the siren call of Murray's voice, the audience can only marvel at the sublime junk of our culture. --Bret Fetzer