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Not Bad
I think this will be good, but not great. I like the fact that it's one of the most adored comic book characters, but from what I saw, it looks a little different than the comic (like he talks instead of thinking) but we'll just have to see to find out for shure.

Garfield: The Movie
I am a huge Garfield fan. I have seen the teaser trailer to the movie and it looks great. It is also great the Bill Murry is going to be the voice of Garfield. Althought I am fond to the man who did the voice for the cartoon version I feel the Bill Murry is a good choice.

This move is a must see not just for Garfield fans but for the whole public. Go see the movie!

The most fundamentally wrong movie ever made
Okay, so they got Bill Murray to replace Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. That's not my beef with this movie. Considering that Lorenzo always was just a cheap substitute for Bill Murray anyway (think of the Ghostbusters cartoon series), and considering that he's dead now, this is not really such a big deal.

The problem also does not lie in their choice of what to do with CGI and what to do with live-action. In the comic/cartoon, Garfield looked more or less like an actual cat, while Odie looked more like a boot with legs than like a dog; this apparently did not stop the movie's creators from counterintuitively doing Garfield in CGI and Odie as a real dog. However, such a tremendous lapse in logic is perfectly understandable, since the movie's creators have probably never actually seen the comic/cartoon, as evidenced by Garfield's lack of black stripes.

No, the problem with this movie lies deeper. Like everyone else, I loved the Garfield comics and cartoons. But this movie is the epitome of everything that I've come to hate about hollywood: the rampant abuse of CGI that is plaguing the industry, and the recent habit of making live-action movies of things that should NEVER be seen in live-action format (think Inspector Gadget, Mr. Magoo, George of the Jungle, Scooby Doo 1 and 2, Dennis the Menace, Super Dave, the very shortly-lived The Tick series, etc.)

The only movie more fundamentally wrong than this would be a live-action Bobby's World or Ren and Stimpy. No wait, Howie Mandel is still alive to do the voice of a CGI Bobby Generick, so that would be only slightly less wrong. I would have also suggested a live-action Earthworm Jim, except that a live-action Earthworm Jim would actually be pretty dang cool...

Over and out.

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