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The Garfield Movie

The Garfield Movie is a 2024 American animated comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis. Directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds, the film stars Chris Pratt as the voice of the titular character, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, before being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure. It is the sixth Garfield film adaptation and the first since Garfield's Pet Force, which was released fifteen years prior.

Development on The Garfield Movie started at Alcon Entertainment in May 2016. Dindal was announced as the film's director in November 2018, and pre-production began the following month. By 2021, Sony Pictures had already purchased the film rights for global distribution and Pratt was cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated by DNEG Animation, while John Debney, a frequent collaborator of Dindal, composed the score.

The Garfield Movie premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on May 19, 2024, and was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing on May 24, 2024. Upon release, the film received generally negative reviews from critics who criticized its faithfulness to the source material although the animation and voice acting were praised. It was a box-office success, grossing $254.9 million worldwide against a $60 million budget.

In a town in California, Garfield is an obese, sedentary, orange tabby cat who lives a pampered average lifestyle with his beagle dog sidekick, Odie, and their owner, Jon Arbuckle. One night, while getting a midnight snack, Garfield and Odie are abducted by a Shar Pei, a whippet, and a Western bluebird respectively named Roland and Nolan, and Barry, who take them to an abandoned mall as prisoners. Garfield and Odie are soon rescued by the former's estranged father, Vic, whom Garfield hates, believing that Vic had abandoned him in an alley back when he was a kitten, on the stormy night he met Jon. The dogs' boss, Jinx, a deranged Persian cat, whom Vic has a history with, arrives to exact revenge on him for leaving her behind during a milk heist at Lactose Farms before she was caught and imprisoned at the animal shelter. She lies that she will forgive Vic if he, Garfield, and Odie break into Lactose Farms to steal a large quantity of milk as compensation for her imprisonment, which they reluctantly agree, while Roland and Nolan closely observe them.

The following morning, Jon notices Garfield and Odie’s disappearance but has trouble calling people to help search for them. Freighthopping a train to Lactose Farms, Vic attempts to bond with Garfield, to no avail as the latter refuses to engage with him. The three reach the farm, which is heavily guarded by an advanced security system. They meet Otto, a Highland bull and the farm's former mascot, who was cast out after a corporation took over, separating him from his cow girlfriend, Ethel. They agree to help get Ethel out of the farm if he helps them break in.

While preparing for the heist, Garfield and Vic frequently clash with each other, forcing Odie and Otto to tie them to a tree. During a heated argument, Vic forlornly reveals what happened on the night he left Garfield behind: he was actually obtaining food for the starving kitten from across the alley but returned too late to find Jon taking care of him in an Italian restaurant he wandered off to. Sadly accepting that Jon would be a better care provider, Vic decided to let him adopt Garfield and kept his distance from his son. Finally understanding the circumstances, Garfield forgives his dad. Meanwhile, Roland and Nolan report to Jinx that Garfield and crew are ready to heist, and she calls the farm's Animal Control officer, Marge Malone, to frame them for it.

The trio successfully infiltrate the farm and circumvent the factory's dangerous equipment, but Marge intercepts them at the loading dock and captures Garfield and Odie. Vic remorsefully leaves them behind despite his son's pleas, stealing the milk truck and successfully delivering it to Jinx, only to be betrayed and captured by her as she reveals that she actually wanted Vic to be sent to the pound like she was. A heartbroken and confused Garfield and Odie are taken to the pound, where Garfield meets the rest of Vic's old crewmates, who have long distanced themselves from him because he was constantly leaving their capers to check up on Garfield, watching from afar whenever he visits him, but Garfield is unconvinced. However, Jon soon arrives to bail Garfield and Odie out and takes them home. Returning to his regular life, Garfield finds Vic's tally marks on an old oak tree across from his house that the cat crew told him about, realizing that Vic does love him and only left him and Odie behind at the farm to keep them safe from Jinx.

With his trust in his father restored, Garfield decides to go back to the mall and save him, where he and Odie learn that Jinx intends to throw Vic off a canyon from a high bridge from a train into stalagmites at the bottom of the canyon and a ravine. Garfield and Odie, along with Otto and an army of drones, arrive to rescue him, only to eventually fail. However, finally seeing Vic's genuine love for his son, and realizing the illogical irony of her plan, Roland and Nolan turn on Jinx. Enraged, Jinx pushes the four of them off the train, only to be knocked off herself by an overpass and falls into the canyon as well. Otto swings a rope to catch them all and safely lands them on a net set up by Odie, also apprehending Jinx. They later return to the farm by the milk truck and bring in Jinx to Marge in exchange for Ethel's release, finally reuniting her with Otto. The reformed Roland and Nolan begin working as security guard dogs for Marge, while Jinx ends up sentenced to community service as punishment for her crimes.

Returning home, Garfield finally reconciles with Vic, who first promises to visit him every Sunday for dinner, then eventually moves in with the trio, officially becoming a part of his son's life.

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