Starring: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Animated adventure comedy based on the characters created by Jim Davis, directed by Mark Dindal and written by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds. The Garfield Movie (2024) centers on the world-famous, sarcastic, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat Garfield (Chris Pratt). After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, scruffy street cat Vic (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.
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Top Zany Quotes from The Garfield Movie
Maria: You eat alone too much, Jon. You should get on the dating apps. There’s Bumble, Tinder, Gluten-Free Singles. Hot Sauce Passions. And you should spend serious money on premium memberships.
Garfield: Oh, yeah. As you can see, life here is pretty near perfect. Well, yeah, except for…
Jon: Time to go to the vet.
Garfield: And that’s why we should go from Sunday to Tuesday.
Garfield: Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey. Good morning.
Garfield: Just let the pepperoni’s healing powers work its magic.
Garfield: Up until that moment, my life was a perfect souffle. Little did I know it was all about to collapse.
Garfield: What are we feeling like tonight, huh? French? Italian? Chinese? Cupcakes? Chinese it is. Odie, shape everything from the bottom two shelves into a dumpling.
Garfield: I think this is a case of mistaken identity. You must be looking for another gorgeous, lovable kitty-cat.
Garfield: Please, take me. I am ready to go to that all-you-can-eat buffet in the sky.
Garfield: Is there another plan that doesn’t involve cutting a rope over a forty-foot drop?
Jinx: You know, I was so delighted that you accepted my invitation here tonight.
Garfield: Well, throwing us in a burlap sack wasn’t exactly an Evite.
Jinx: Are you feline sad? Cat got your tongue? Would you prefer a mew-mosa?
Garfield: Oh, don’t “Junior” me. You may call me Garfield, Mr. Garfield, or G-Money.
Garfield: Is today a Monday? Because it feels an awful lot like a Monday.
Vic: It’s Thursday.
Garfield: Not to me it’s not.
Vic: You ever jumped a train?
Garfield: I’ve never jumped.
Vic: See? I told you this was going to be fun.
Garfield: You and I have different definitions of fun.
Find My Pet Voice: Your call is very important to us. There are one thousand three hundred and forty-six people ahead of you.
Garfield: We’re about to steal a truck full of milk from a dairy to pay back a deranged cat. What part of that is going to be good for me?
Vic: All I’m saying is that to break into a dairy, it’s going to take a few skills I’m guessing a rounded, mush-filled, overly-pampered indoor cat like you doesn’t have.
Garfield: Toughen me up? Hey, I know tough, Vic. You’ve obviously never been in an Olive Garden that’s run out of breadsticks.
Garfield: This calls for tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy.
Vic: Oh, yeah? And where are we supposed to get that?
Garfield: I have it. In spades.
Garfield: Ooh, cheddar cheese is my love language.
Otto: It’s a possum. They’re masters at playing dead.
Garfield: Well, then little Daniel Day-Possum here should do Shakespeare in the Park.
Otto: Things aren’t always what they seem.
Find My Pet Voice: Your call is fairly important to us. If you’ve lost a cat, please press one. If your cat is orange, please press two. This doesn’t really accomplish anything but gives you the false sense that we’re engaged with you.
Vic: You tell Garfield there’s a plate of pasta on the other side of that wall, and you will see lightning reflexes.
Garfield: Yeah. No, no, no. Depends what kind of pasta.
Otto: Given your present levels of incompetence, and overall lack of basic skills, I have determined it would take roughly seventeen years to get you both properly ready for this job.
Marge Malone: I guess I better take out my finest china to serve a heaping plate of justice.
Garfield: [to Otto] Anyone ever told you that you take a lot of dramatic pauses when you speak?
Garfield: Oh, cheddar. Probably one of my top twenty-six favorite cheeses.
Jon: [as he’s grating cheese onto the lasagna] Say when.
Garfield: Never, Jon. Bury me in cheese!
Garfield: Oh, I apologize in advance. The eating you’re about to see will not be pretty. And if you have young children, this would be a good time for them to leave the room.
Garfield: [to Odie] Vic loves us! Me first, of course. But then you too! But me, a lot, and first!
Garfield: If I don’t make it back, tell my story.
Garfield: I never understood the purpose of salad until this exact moment.
Garfield: Yeah, in case you were wondering, I do my own stunts. Me, and Tom Cruise.
Garfield: My medium is cuisine. My colors are flavors. My palette is my palate, if you will.
Garfield: Pasta is my paint and the dinner plate my canvas.