Ebert & Roeper - Garfield

Maybe they should make Garfield Minus Garfield in live action. That'd be something to see.

[@roberttreacy8271]

The live-action Garfield movies are big guilty pleasures of mine.

[@esparzacartoons2050]

Ebert has a point. It's not a perfect adaptation but it's trying harder than Scooby doo was. Also I think Roeper was uncomfortable with all the rat scenes. When rodents appeared in movies, he would freak out a little.

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Bill Murray said "No" to Ghostbusters 3 but said "Yes" to Garfield and the sequel

[@fattiger2000]

I think it was more of him saying yes to easy voice work than anything

[@ezequielgomez7083]

Until Ghostbusters Afterlife

[@renesalinas9025]

Hell Yeah even Harold Ramis came back from the grave for that movie

[@ezequielgomez7083]

I enjoy watching my first live action, 20th Century Fox and Bill Murray flim Garfield The Movie on 📀 when I was a 7 year old child since 2008

[@cyber-thundr_]

I like the movie too but I can see the issue of it. The other iconic characters outside of Garfield look & act nothing like the ones they’re based on.

[@nicktaylor2657]

Garfield was my favorite cartoon strip as a kid Had bunch of books of the strip but never saw the movie Maybe I outgrew it

[@curleed85]

Personally, I was disappointed by the film. I was alienated because the majority of characters look and act nothing like their original counterparts. Bill Murray was a good choice for Garfield, but he could have used a better script.

[@joyunicycle]

Garfield was done mostly well. The other characters weren't. Why couldn't Odie or Nermal be animated too? I'd forgive the movie better if they fixed that.

[@kali3665]

Now, I have never been a fan of Garfield anyway - it stopped being funny, assuming it ever was, years ago - and the movies are truly terrible IMO. Bill Murray admitted that he signed on only because he originally thought the director was Ethan Coen. And I am sure he got stuck doing the second one per the contract he signed. Murray's voice works fine, I guess, but Lorenzo Music IS Garfield, and Murray just doesn't come close to that eff-you approach that Music provided the character.