The Garfield Movie

This is not a review of the Garfield movie. Make no mistake: I will not go see this movie. Every time I see an ad for it I throw up a little bit in my mouth. This movie disgusts me in the same way the Scooby Doo, Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch movies do (the live-action Grinch movie or as I like to call it, “Hypocrisy Incarnate”).

No, I just wanted to point out something amusing about the casting in this movie. Bill Murray is the voice of Garfield. So let’s think about this:

Bill Murray is the voice of Garfield in the movie based on a comic that was made into a cartoon in the 1980s. In that cartoon, an actor named Lorenzo Music performed the voice of Garfield. Lorenzo Music was also the voice of Peter Venkman in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, which was based on the movie in which Bill Murray played the same part.

I realized these facts on my own. Does it mean that people think the two men sound alike? I don’t. And at any rate, who cares? Bill Murray is hilarious, and Garfield quit being funny about 20 years ago. Hey, maybe Garfield was never funny and I just thought so when I was in elementary school. That would make sense.

Comments

[Kid Ego]

I put this EXACT coincidence together when I found out Murray was going to voice Garfield. It blew my freakin' mind.

Garfield was funny when Jim Davis actually worked on the comic, 20 years ago.

I, also, will rabidly avoid this.

[Momotaro]

I too made the connection on my own.

And no, Garfield was never funny. And yet I own 4 of his books... Me? I'm waiting on the live action Heathcliff movie...

[Smitty]

I loved Garfield when I was a kid. I guess reflecting back on it, I don't remember it being really funny then either. I think the funniest thing about garfield was the 2 stuffed ones I had. One had suction cups so you could put it in your car window, the other stood up on all four feet and had this dumb look on it's face. My mom got those two for me. The main reason I am not going to see it is because they cast Odie as a real dog. I am not interested in Odie unless he has a monstrously wide open mouth with a giant tenticle like tounge flapping out of it. Not really, the real reason is because the movie is going to SUCK.

Why can't they leave comic strips as a comic strip. OH! That's right, because a newspaper costs 50 cents and a movie ticket averages $7.00