Garfield Films (Study Guide) - Garfield: The Movie, Garfield Gets Real, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Garfield's Fun Fest, Garfield's Pet Force (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Garfield: the Movie, Garfield Gets Real, Garfield: a Tail of Two Kitties, Garfield's Fun Fest, Garfield's Pet Force. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Garfield: The Movie, also known as Garfield, is a 2004 live-action film based on the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. In this movie, Garfield the cat was created with computer-generated imagery, though all other animals were real. The film was originally to be produced in 2D by 20th Century Fox Animation, but duties were transferred to Davis Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. The movie was directed by Peter Hewitt, produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and stars Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson, and features Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield. The movie was released in the United States on June 11, 2004. Reviews of the movie were generally very negative, although Murray's voice work received some positive notices. Baha Men performed the song "Holla " for the film and its soundtrack. The music video premiered in early summer 2004 and featured clips from the film and gags showing obvious references to the Garfield franchise (such as lasagna jokes). The movie begins by introducing Garfield as a fat lazy cat (voiced by Bill Murray) who lives with Jon Arbuckle. Garfield wakes up from a good night's sleep and awaits a tasty breakfast. After switching his liver flavored cat food with Jon's corned beef hash, Garfield spots a pie outside on the neighbor's window. He tricks the Doberman Pinscher Luca (voiced by Brad Garrett) in order to get the pie and tangling his leash around many bushes and ceramic ducks. He also tricks his dimwitted neighbor cat Nermal (voiced David Eigenberg) to tip over a milk bottle through a ser...http: //booksllc.net/?id=348449