I had planned to watch 'Nine Lives'. But then I figured, why look for that film when I can watch the second Garfield movie. After all I already watched the first one and it was a steaming pile of garbage. It was trying to focus on a subpar love story between Garfield's owner and the veterinarian he fancies ''liz'' and it made for an incredibly boring show.
That led me to the conclusion that the second movie must be better. After all there's no more crummy love story. John and Liz are already in a relationship, so they can't possibly waste all of our time with that.
As far as I see it the second movie looks so ridiculous that it might just be kind of fun. Garfield getting swamped with another cat and living a different life of luxury. Who knows, maybe we'll end up being like Babe.
Well God was I wrong. Within two minutes I'm already annoyed. The little British cat is incredibly frustrating and then we cut over to Garfield who's played by Bill Murray and he is absolutely terrible. He has little conviction and no energy when trying to act as the voice of this horrible CGI mess. I don't blame them, he's just doing this for the cash (I hope you got a good amount of cash) because I couldn't imagine having to be the main voice of this awful awful film.
Shame on him for doing this. He should have known better or given the slightest bit of a damn. But he didn't.
The script for Garfield is just awful. Pop culture references that were out of date at the time and now they don't even come off as sad it just seemed kind of alien. I can't imagine any kid less than 10 years old now understanding 90% of the references that come out of Garfield's mouth. But then I would hope any kid would have a big enough brain not to want to watch this movie.
I had planned to watch this entire film. I was really hoping that I could say it was better than the first. That although it's not very good it's at least entertaining. But this is an impossible task.
At least with the original Garfield I could say that the first 15 minutes were livable. Bill Murray wasn't acting it up too much yet and the story was fairly simple. It was just Garfield's living a simple little life dealing with other animals around the neighbourhood and just having a good old time.
For some strange reason Garfield doesn't stop moving. He's supposed to be a fat lazy cat who despises leaving his bed and doing anything more labour-intensive than eating. But just like every other crappy CGI film the main character has to flip and turn all over the place. They always look like they're made out of jelly. It just comes off as horrible. Do they think our attention span is short? Well of course they do. And why should they think otherwise. What person would willingly pay good money to see a live action of Garfield. Only idiots I say, only idiots.
So John was going to propose to Liz at the beginning of the film but then he can't find the ring. So instead of just telling Liz the truth and saying simply that he can't find the ring to propose with, he makes up some lame-ass excuse and waste everybody's time. We have Sitcom Story. Where everything could be resolved in two minutes if the main characters just sat down and actually said what they needed to do. I can't stand stories like this. It's one thing to have a convenient problem it's another to create that problem.
Why is Bob Hoskins in this movie? It was bad enough that he was in that stupid Mario film and now he's here to. Come on Bob you were in Nixon for god sakes!
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