Garfield: The Movie IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!! (1 Viewer)

[Tony Whalen]

Nermal is in the flick hmmm? I forgot about l'il ol' Nermal.

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

The trailer appears to be gone from every site that had it. What gives?

 

[TheBat]

the link is back:
JACOB
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/garfield/medium.html

 

[Paul_Sjordal]

Well, that's one more movie I won't bother checking out.

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

Wow, does that look bad. Sad too, I love Garfield.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Mildly amusing that they worked in a gag about the Garfield car window suction cup toys, but I'm getting the same reaction here as I did from Cat in the Hat.

 

[Edwin-S]

I'm not impressed with Bill Murray voicing Garfield. This movie should have been made years ago. It should have been fully animated and it should have had Lorenzo Music doing Garfield's voice. In my mind he WAS Garfield. To paraphrase......there can be only ONE.....and Bill Murray ain't the one.

The idea of using a live dog was also dumb. All it does is draw even more attention to the "animatedness" of the Garfield character. Odie also had a definite look with the long neck and huge slobbering tongue.

How are they going to pull off Arlene? She had an outrageously long neck, a big head, and a tiny body.

I wish "creators" would quit allowing their creations to be bastardized for the sake of a few dollars more.

I like Watterson because he had integrity and treated his characters with respect. They weren't just a money machine to him. I mean he had any number of opportunities to "sell out" his characters to the marketers and refused to do so. He also knew when to quit......unlike "Sparky" Schultz and now Jim Davis.

 

[Scott Weinberg]

My choice for Garfield's voice would have been Brad Garrett.

I barely remember Lorenzo Music's voice, but to me Garfield should sound sardonic, tired and dismissive.

I do think Bill Murray could turn it into something noteworthy, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Edwin-S]

That's funny, because that is exactly what I thought Lorenzo Music's voicing sounded like.....except, possibly, the sardonic tone.

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

According to this site Odie has been replaced by a CGI Odie at the last minute, but not in time for the trailer. We can only hope.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

I wonder, will they play Odie's entrance music?

 

[JustinCleveland]

But there is nothing about the movie that looks particularly well thought out--that even reflects in the first release date announced back in this spring: December 19th.

???

This has a release date of June, 2004. Says so right there on the site.

 

[Robert Anthony]

I said the FIRST release date announced. When Fox finally announced this project earlier this spring, they said it would be in theaters by December 19th.

I know what the NEW release date is, but when they first said "We're gonna be bringing you Garfield" they said it would be up against Return of the King on Dec 19th.

The only reason I brought that up anyway was to show that it looks like they're not putting too much thought into this from all angles

Check the first page of this thread--the links are there.

 

[TheBat]

Brad garret is playing a differnt role in garfield. orinally it was going to be released on december 19, 2003 but then pushed back to june of 2004.. mainly for the cgi/special effects take alot of time.

JACOB

 

[JustinCleveland]

Ah, gotcha. I never paid much mind to that original date because I knew it was entirely unrealistic.

 

[Galen_V]

Hmmm. I don't like the looks of this at all. I think that it would work if they animated Garfield and Odie like the Loony Tunes in Back in Action. I just can't picture Garfield as a "real" looking cat for some reason.

 

[Ricardo C]

Well... Just saw the trailer.
I like the look of CGI Garfield, and Bill Murray's voice suits him just fine (LOVED the Elvis bit ). But I just can't get past the idea of Breckin Meyer as Jon.
Still, the teaser looks better than I thought it would, so I'm officially giving it a chance. Hey, even sickeningly sweet Jennifer Love Hewitt managed to look A LITTLE mean in the trailer. It might just end up working.
That said... Is there any chance a law could be passed that banned movies and tv shows that ripped off Risky Business??? It's been 20 years, people, it's not funny anymore!!!

 

[TheBat]

garfield is a party animal.. even in the comics..

JACOB

 

[Ricardo C]

Be that as it may, it doesn't excuse the lack of creativity made evident by milking a sight gag first used two decades ago.

 

[Geoffrey_A]

Jeff's boycott based on Lorenzo Music, here's an interesting thought:

Lorenzo Music was the voice of Garfield

Lorenzo Music was the voice of Peter Venkman on Real Ghostbusters

Bill Murray was Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters

Bill Murray is the voice of Garfield in the movie

Honestly, if anyone was going to take Lorenzos place, I'm glad it's Bill. Anyway, an interesting bit of serendipity there.