Garfield never leaves the immediate environs, and his biggest problems are how to swipe milk from a neighbor’s porch and score a meal of his favorite dish, lasagna. The pampered precious of owner and “primary caregiver” Jon (Breckin Meyer at his blandest), Garfield wallows away his days as lord of the local cats and scourge of a neighbor’s big, dumb, chained-up dog. The movie’s opening sequences are devoted to a stiff, tedious setup of Garfield’s realm as center of his own little universe. Director Pete Hewitt (“Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey,” “The Borrowers”) is given little to work with in the screenplay by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, the writing team that contributed to “Toy Story” but also came up with last year’s idiotic “Cheaper By the Dozen.” In my role as Prince,I do the voice of Tim Curry, an actor I have admired ever since. That is, yank them out of what little story the filmmakers dredge up. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties PG, 80 m., 2006 Bill Murray. And the curious decision to make Garfield a computer-generated cartoon figure amid live-action cats and dogs - while not quite the distraction it could have been - still is bothersome enough to yank viewers out of the story now and then.
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