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Garfield Gets Real is a 2007 CGI movie based on the Garfield franchise. It was released directly to video on August 9, 2007. It was produced by Paws Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment. It was later followed by two sequels, Garfield's Fun Fest and Garfield's Pet Force.
The film follows Garfield's life as a comic strip celebrity and his desire to live a normal life in the real world.
Synopsis[]
Follow Garfield behind the scenes in Cartoon World where he grows bored with his life as a comic strip star. Thinking that life is greener on the other side of reality, Garfield decides to escape to the "real world". Leaving his friends, family and job behind, he soon realizes that real-life cats don't enjoy the perks of cats in the entertainment biz.
Plot[]
Garfield lives with canine Odie and Jon in a what appears to be a suburban town inhabited by cartoon characters within the Comic Strip World. In Garfield's Pet Force, the towns name is revealed to be Grin City. Garfield and the gang work at Comic studios with other comic characters. The comic strip is made in Comic Strip world and sent to “The Real World” where it is put in the newspaper. Garfield is tired of the same old jokes his friends crack and is bored with his work and life in Comic Strip World and longs to go to The Real World.
Odie, unwilling to return a prop bone to the Prop Boy, tries to hide it and ends up opening a patch on the screen. The danger alarm is rung, and everyone panics. Eli, the Head Technician of Comic Studios explains to the comic characters that the screen separates Comic Strip World and The Real World, with no way back. Garfield sees his chance to go to The Real World (and eat the hot dogs opposite the newsstand) and goes through the screen without anyone noticing. Later on, the comic characters realize Garfield is in the real world, and Eli blocks the patch on the screen that separates the real world by using special tape on it. Odie also winds up in the Real World. Odie gets his bone back and he and Garfield go find some dinner. Garfield meets a cat named Shecky, who invites Garfield and Odie to dinner and a show. As they chat, Odie is chased by a gang of chihuahuas who want his bone. Garfield goes to save Odie and eventually defeats the chihuahuas. Shecky and the duo head to a fence (which is known as Club Shecky) where the dinner and show are, where they meet two other pets, Waldo and Sheila. Shecky gets dinner by performing a "show" for the people who live in a building. The people who are trying to sleep get annoyed and they start throwing leftover foods at him. After dinner, Shecky brings Garfield and Odie to their new home, an abandoned hotel called Hotel Muncie.
The next day, Garfield finds a newspaper in the trash and learns his strip will be canceled. Garfield finds an article in the newspaper asking people to audition and replace Garfield. Garfield and Odie head for the place where they are doing try-outs. The judges are not impressed by most auditioning, including Garfield and Odie. The judges are more impressed in Hale and Hardy, a muscular dog, and a muscular cat. One of the judges, Sid, decides to give Garfield one more chance: If Garfield does not make it back to Comic Strip world in 24 hours, Hale and Hardy will replace him. Garfield has an idea of building a bigger version of a concertina Wally (Neil Ross), another comic strip character, had invented (which can steal cookies) that can go through the screen back in Comic Studios and shares the idea with his friends back in Comic Strip world. Wally and the other comic strip characters then start building the giant concertina according to Wally's blueprints.
Later that night, Garfield and Odie return to Hotel Muncie. Hale and Hardy sneak in the hotel and go into Garfield, Odie, and Shecky's room and tie them up and taunt them before leaving. As they close the door, a candle is knocked over and it sets fire to a newspaper, causing the entire hotel to go on fire. Eli finds out about this and calls everyone to the screen. Wally and the others complete the finishing touches to the giant concertina. Wally then asks for two volunteers to come with him to save Garfield, Odie, and Shecky. Billy Bear, another comic strip character who shares a strip with Randy Rabbit, and Jon volunteers to go with Wally to save the three friends, and go through the screen by going into the giant concertina-tunnel built by Wally. They enter the burning hotel through a small hole in the wall and free the three friends, and prepare to escape, but the entire hotel is in flames and the ceiling begins to collapse, blocking the exits. Luckily, Shecky finds a trash cart that they can ride in. Jon, Wally, Odie, Garfield, and Shecky jump in and Billy Bear is about to push the cart when Odie realizes his bone is missing and finds the bone lying on a chandelier. Billy Bear pushes the cart and jumps in too and they go down the staircase. Garfield winds up on the chandelier too. The others eventually save Garfield and Odie. The chandelier collapses causing the cart and the chandelier to fall to the ground. The six-duck as the cart crashes out of the hotel. The cart's wheel gets wrecked, causing the cart to fling the six into the "Bonitanator" and the door of the tunnel closes and disappears and they are transported back to Comic Strip World.
Some days later, Hale and Hardy, now out of jobs, are shown reading the newspaper stating that Garfield and Odie are back in the comic strips. They express disappointment while accusing each other of causing it to happen. Waldo and Sheila are on their own now that Shecky is in the comic strips. The comic characters dance and celebrate the return of Garfield. Unknown to the comic characters, the chihuahuas have also gone through the "Bonitanator", and the film ends with them chasing Odie.
Cast[]
- Frank Welker as Garfield and Hardy
- Gregg Berger as Odie, Shecky and Hale
- Wally Wingert as Jon Arbuckle and Mike
- Audrey Wasilewski as Arlene, Zelda, and Betty
- Jason Marsden as Nermal
- Fred Tatasciore as Billy Bear and Waldo
- Stephen Stanton as Randy Rabbit
- Neil Ross as Wally Stegman and Charles
- Jennifer Darling as Bonita Stegman
- Rajia Baroudi as Sheila
Trivia[]
- This is the first Garfield media to be written by Jim Davis himself since Garfield Gets a Life in 1991. He began work on the film in 1996.[Citation needed]
- The film was given a theatrical release in Turkey on November 16, 2007. It made $592,974 on its opening weekend, with an overall gross of $1,726,453.[1]
- In some non-English territories, the film is known as "Garfield 3D" and its logo is based on that of the live-action Garfield movie.
- In Garfield's bedroom, a panel from the June 8, 2003 strip (Garfield up against a dog's posterior) is framed on the wall.
- Starting with this movie, Frank Welker, Wally Wingert, Jason Marsden, and Audrey Wasilewski become the official voices for Garfield, Jon, Nermal, and Arlene respectively. Gregg Berger reprises his role as Odie.
- The book Garfield at 25: In Dog Years I'd be Dead is displayed in The Daily Newspaper Chronicle.
- In the comic strip and other animated appearances, Garfield sleeps on the table or floor in his bed-box. In this and the other DTV movies, he has his own bedroom.
- Odie can speak more English in the film than in the comic strip, such as "My bone!", "I don't know", and "Right".
- Unlike most Garfield media, humans can understand what he is saying in the Comic Strip World.
- This is the first Garfield film to be completely animated in CGI.
- Lasagna and pizza are never mentioned in the film. Garfield instead favors hot dogs.
- Garfield eventually mentions lasagna in the third film.
- Grimmy from Mother Goose and Grimm and Dagwood from Blondie make cameo appearances, while Snoopy from Peanuts is mentioned.
- The movie was first announced in a behind the scenes bonus feature on a Garfield and Friends DVD.
The early cover art from 2006.
- An early version of the cover art showed half of Garfield coming out of a black and white newspaper (taking up the entire space of the cover) with Arlene and Odie in the corner.
- During one scene in the real world with a family of four, a clip from the 2007 film Shark Bait (The Reef in US) is shown on the TV.
- This was the first Garfield movie that does not have a Japanese dub.[Citation needed]
- A Dropbox archive created by the film's composer contains the film's entire soundtrack, and can be found here.
Goofs[]
- When Jon says, "Hot! Hot! Hot!" three times while taking out a pie from a microwave/oven, his lips are out of sync.
- In the same scene, Jon tosses three plates into the air; the last one intersects with the camera.
- When Garfield wakes up, he keeps mentioning that it is Monday, but when the newspaper goes to print it says that it is Thursday.
- When Garfield is talking to Wally, the background has Zelda cooking Kat-Kreal Stew. In the next shot, she is serving sandwiches.
- In the Real World, Odie's bone is being chased by Chihuahuas, and after the lamp-post shot, they land flat on the ground near Odie. The computer had very poor animation performance to clear the clay off of the Chihuahuas after they arise from the land and chase after Odie. There are still brown puddles (made of clay), that are on the ground.
- In the newspaper office, a fan-edited Garfield comic strip is shown on a cardboard stand. The comic contains vulgar language and explicit references to various violent crimes.
- In the fire scene, Jon tries to catch Garfield from the chandelier at the main staircase. When Jon reaches out to grab Garfield, there is no rail on the stairs. It comes back in the very next shot and disappears again after Garfield says "Need a lift?"
- Whenever the fire scene is going in slow motion, the fire in the background is not in slow motion.
- When Garfield and Odie are on a fence trying to "leap" into the comic world, Odie's bone disappears in the closeup shot and does not come back throughout that scene.
Video game[]
- Main article: Garfield Gets Real (video game)
A video game based on the film was released on July 21, 2009, nearly two years after the original film's release. It was met with generally unfavorable reviews. It currently holds 39/100 rating on Metacritic.
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