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Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties

2006, Movie, PG, 80 mins

Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties: Review

GARFIELD: A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES
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A crass, tedious sequel to the bland, coarse GARFIELD: THE MOVIE (2004), this faint gloss on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper finds obnoxious, gluttonous, grotesquely CGI-animated cat Garfield (voice of Bill Murray) in London, where he's mistaken for a pampered puss named Prince (Tim Curry), resulting in wacky complications that are neither especially wacky nor particularly funny. Prince has just inherited Carlyle Manor, a stately home not far from London, from his eccentric owner. Her rapacious nephew, Lord Dargis (Billy Connolly), is outraged; the family solicitors have barely finished reading the will when he stuffs Prince into a picnic basket and tosses it into the nearest stream. With Prince out of the picture, he'll be free to get rid of his late aunt's menagerie of household and barnyard beasts and develop Carlyle Manor into a luxury condominium development. Meanwhile, Garfield's clueless owner, Jon (Breckin Meyer), has followed his girlfriend, Liz (Jennifer Love Hewitt), to London in hopes of finding a moment to propose. Garfield, unwilling to share Jon's affections, sneaks into his luggage and awaits an opportunity to break up the happy couple; the odious Odie (a real and quite cute dog who makes the animated Garfield look even more misshapen by comparison) tags along for the ride. Prince and Garfield wind up on the same London street at virtually the same time, with the predictable result: Garfield is whisked off to Carlyle Manor, and Prince finds himself in Jon's improbably luxurious hotel suite. While Prince's loyal right paw, bulldog Winston (Bob Hopkins), helps the uncouth Garfield pass for Prince — a fake Prince is as good as real one when it comes to forestalling Dargis' nefarious plans — Prince discovers the lowly joys of lasagna with Jon and Liz before rallying to save his imperiled subjects. Very young children may find Garfield's greedy, destructive antics amusing, but the film's crude physical humor and boorish gags don't offer much for older viewers. Meyer and Hewitt are relegated to marginal supporting players and the talented Connolly reduced to obvious pratfalls and silly tantrums. The voice cast, whose words emerge from the computer-animated mouths of real animals, includes Richard E. Grant, Jane Horrocks, Jane Leeves, Rhys Ifans and Vinnie Jones; their talents are wasted on limp puns and frantic fussing. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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