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GenreAdventure, Animation & Comedy
RatedPG
Runtime1 hr 41 mins
ReleasedMay 24, 2024
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorMark Dindal
StarringChris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham
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The Garfield Movie (2024)
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| The Garfield Movie's Details | |
| Genre | Adventure, Animation & Comedy |
| Rated | PG |
| Released | 05/19/2024 (Grauman's Chinese Theatre); 05/24/2024 (United States); 06/22/2024 (Hong Kong) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 41 mins |
| Budget | $60M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Garfield by Jim Davis |
| Country | United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| The Garfield Movie's Interests | |
| General | Lasagna, naps, Jon's couch, abandoned malls, dairy farms, a very loyal beagle. |
| Music | John Debney, keeping it light and loud. |
| Movies | Garfield: The Movie (2004). Bill Murray had the gig first. |
| Television | Garfield and Friends. Saturday mornings, Odie running into walls. |
| Heroes | Odie. Says nothing, does everything. |
| The Garfield Movie's Crew | |
| Director | Mark Dindal |
| Writers | Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, David Reynolds |
| Producers | John Cohen, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Steven P. Wegner, Craig Sost, Namit Malhotra |
| Music | John Debney |
| Edited By | Mark Keefer |
| Production | Columbia Pictures, Alcon Entertainment, Prime Focus Studios, Andrews McMeel Entertainment, John Cohen Productions |
| Distributed By | Sony Pictures Releasing (worldwide), Intercontinental Film Distributors, Mei Ah Entertainment (Hong Kong) |
Garfield hops a freight train, cases a dairy farm and stages a rescue at a canyon bridge in The Garfield Movie, which is a strange way to honor a cat whose whole brand is the couch. The heist plot asks the laziest cat in comics to be an action hero, and the costume doesn’t fit. Garfield and Odie get snatched by a Shar Pei and a Whippet, rescued by Vic, the street cat dad Garfield never forgave, and drafted into a milk heist for Jinx, a white Persian with a grudge. Chris Pratt voices Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson voices Vic, and the new face is Otto, a Highland bull who lost his job as the farm mascot and misses his girlfriend Ethel. The father-son story is surprisingly tender. The animation looks flat and oddly empty, though, and the jokes run thin. It made $257 million worldwide anyway. A 3.8 because kids will giggle and fans of the comic will sigh. $46.44 says you order lasagna before the credits and claim the kids picked it.
What works: The father-son story between Garfield and Vic is surprisingly tender, and little kids will enjoy the slapstick.
What doesn’t: Turning Garfield into a heist hero erases the grumpy couch cat fans love, and the animation looks flat and half-empty.
Who it’s for: Little kids who think a cat riding a freight train is the funniest thing they have ever seen.
Spoilers
Vic reveals he let Jon adopt baby Garfield on purpose, figuring Jon would take better care of him. Roland and Nolan turn on Jinx at the canyon bridge, she ends up doing community service, and Vic moves in with Garfield, Odie and Jon.
Garfield (Chris Pratt) has life figured out: lasagna, naps, and an owner, Jon (Nicholas Hoult), who does all the work. Then he and Odie (Harvey Guillén) get snatched by two goons, Roland (Brett Goldstein) and Nolan (Bowen Yang), and hauled off to an abandoned mall. The rescue comes from Vic (Samuel L. Jackson), the dad Garfield hasn't forgiven since kittenhood. Then Jinx (Hannah Waddingham), a Persian cat with a long memory, offers Vic a deal: pull off a giant milk heist at Lactose Farms, or else. Mark Dindal directs. One hundred one minutes, and somehow it's still Monday.
Anyone with a fully stocked fridge. Lasagna preferred, Mondays not accepted.
| Chris Pratt | Garfield |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Vic |
| Hannah Waddingham | Jinx |
| Ving Rhames | Otto |
| Nicholas Hoult | Jon Arbuckle |
| Harvey Guillén | Odie |
| Cecily Strong | Marge Malone |
| Brett Goldstein | Roland |
| Bowen Yang | Nolan |
| Snoop Dogg | Maurice |
| Janelle James | Olivia |
| Angus Cloud | Snickers |
| Jeff Foxworthy | a bird |
| Eugenia Caruso | Maria |
| Dev Joshi | Liz |
| Mark Dindal | the voice on the Sleep App that Jon uses |
| Cameron Bernard Jones | Barry |
| Alicia Grace Turrell | Ethel |
| Eric Loren | Roadkill |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 20 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $257.2M; Domestic box office $92M; Opening weekend $24M; Profit / loss (est.) +$38.6M; Rotten Tomatoes 36%; CinemaScore B+; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 36% (137 reviews); Metacritic 31 / 100; CinemaScore B+; IMDb users 5.7 / 10 (29,142 votes); movie.guru score 3.1.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 20 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.