Garfield Gets Real (film)
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Garfield Gets Real, also known as Garfield 3D in some regions, is a 2007 American computer-animated film produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment and The Animation Picture Company, distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and written by Garfield's creator, the film was theatrically released on August 9, 2007. It is the first/third-to-last installment of the Garfield 3D Trilogy, the third Garfield film to be created and is also the Series Finale to the 1988 animated show "Garfield and Friends".
Plot
While living the low-key life of a housecat in the real world, Garfield learns his comic will be cancelled if he doesn't return before the newspaper goes to print.
Fake Qualities
- Very poor and off-putting CGI animation, even for 2007 standards. Depending on your view, The Garfield Show, which is criticized by fans for looking cheap, has better animation and the extra's models are more faithful to Jim Davis' style than in this movie.
- The characters are extremely dumbed down, especially Garfield, who is no longer sarcastic and is more gentle. Also, the new additions to the cast are unnecessary and unlikable.
- The title could easily confuse viewers.
- Garfield moves his mouth whenever he is speaking, which is not supposed to be the case since in the comics, he is thinking all of his dialogue. Though this was the case in the two live-action films and it continues into the sequels and The Garfield Show.
- Even the Nintendo DS game this movie spawned 2 years later has Garfield think his sentences, unlike this.
- The main plot starts only twenty-four minutes into the film, which is really bad since the film is rather short.
- The real world doesn't have any real differences to the comic world that Garfield lives in as it has the same cartoon physics, making the real world plot extremely pointless.
- It should be worth mention that Looney Tunes: Back in Action had not only animated segments, but also proper Live-Action segments, as well as a blend of live-action/animated segments, and that film came out 2004, 3 years earlier then Garfield Gets Real.
- Even Who Framed Roger Rabbit, another live-action/animated film, had more proper Live-Action segments in conjunction with the animated segments, and that film came out in 1988, 19 years earlier then Garfield Gets Real, let that sink in.
- The character designs are a mixed bag. While the main cast is designed decently, the side characters look horrendous due to poorly-drawn outlines.
- Bland humor.
- The film infamously uses the fan-made comic that contains profane language and Jon threatening to rape Garfield in the background, implying the animators just went onto Google and searched some random Garfield comics and used anything they could get.
- The film ends with a generic dance party, which has already been done in several other better films.
- Hale & Hardy are very lame and uninspiring villains who barely get any screen time, and their "Karma/Defeat" is very weak after they nearly try to kill Garfield, Odie and Shecky by setting the hotel on fire.
- As stated in the #6 segment, the movie is kind of disappointing due to the fact that Garfield didn't go to real life world, the real life world in the movie is just full of animated characters.
- Surprisingly, this is not the plot of the live action Garfield movies that proceeded it, but rather, they take place within the Garfield world.
- While many other comic strip characters were made for this film, there was the missed opportunity to have the U.S. Acres characters appear in the film, all of which do not appear in this film, nor are they mentioned.
- The U.S. Acres characters are not the only characters absent from the film, Liz, Doc Boy, Squeak, Mr. Arbuckle, Mrs. Arbuckle, Binky the Clown and Herman Post are also absent.
- What makes this even worse is that despite this movie serving as the first installment of the Garfield 3D Trilogy, it seems to have been intended as the Garfield and Friends series finale. With so little of the show's familiar characters and elements, this is far from an ideal sendoff for such a well received series.
- It spawned a terrible video game based on it of the same name for the Nintendo DS.
Real Qualities
- It does try to stay loyal to the original source material.
- It is nice to see Arlene appear in animation for the first time since Garfield and Friends.
- The idea of the comics being set up as if they were a play with a stage, actors, props, etc. is actually a unique concept, but got poorly executed.
- Decent voice acting, especially Frank Welker who does a fantastic job as Garfield and would become a stable for The Garfield Show.
- Dagwood from the comic strip Blondie makes a cameo appearance. Grimm from Mother Goose and Grimm also makes a cameo.
- There are some funny moments here and there.
- The animation fits well with the concept. In fact, it arguably looks better in the real world than in the comic world.
- The animation used for the opening is actually really good (except for the close up of the bee).
- The music, particularly the opening theme, is good.
- The franchise's creator, Jim Davis, is involved.
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