11-27: Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain
11-20: Wooden Wand and the Vanishi...: The Flood
10-02: ...: Oboroed/Circus Live...
07-04: Need New Body: Where's Black Ben?
04-09: Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
10-13: Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse
10-13: Things Explod...: It's Never Worked Befor...
10-03: Controller.Controller: History
Music Reviews index


11-09: Three...Extremes
10-19: Battle Royale II
10-04: A History of Violence
08-26: Grizzly Man
08-22: The 40 Year-Old Virgin
08-12: The Dukes of Hazzard
08-05: The Devil's Rejects
08-03: The Island
Movie Reviews index


01-06: List: Best/Worst of 2005: Movies
08-28: List: 2004's 50 Best Albums, Part 2
07-02: List: 2004's Best and Worst Movies
04-20: Article: Mikel Ate That CD
04-20: Interview: Half of the Fiery Furnaces
04-17: List: 2004's 50 Best Albums, Part 1
04-08: List: 2003's 20 Best Albums
Features index


Garfield
Garfield
Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debra Messing, Stephen Tobolowsky
Directed by Peter Hewitt
80 min, 2004

1/8

It's got the cat from the Princess Diaries 2. And late in the game Garfield and Odie commit attempted homicide.

Bill Murray gives not only the worst performance of his career, but, probably, the worst performance of the movie.

It could have done to be several steps closer to Cujo. Instead it is relentlessly insipid Family-Friendly nonsense, that contains one good joke (about prison-suicide), and otherwise makes you long for the comparative genius of TV's Garfield and Friends.

Breckin Meyer as Jon? Jennifer Love Hewitt as Liz? Yo, Breckin, can I get some shoelaces in here?


quoth Pat Jackson.