The Garfield Movie starring Chris Pratt is PANNED ahead of upcoming release: ... trends now
Reviews for the upcoming animated film The Garfield Movie, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson, have not been the cat's meow.
According to a synopsis from producers, the film details 'Garfield's (Pratt) unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic (Jackson),' after which 'he and his canine friend Odie (Harvey Guillén) are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.'
The animated movie, directed by Mark Dindal, also features the voices of Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang and Snoop Dogg.
A number of professional film critics included in a compendium of 31 reviews published on the outlet Rotten Tomatoes Monday presented a less-than-favorable impression of the film, an adaptation of the popular comic strip that debuted in the late 1970s.
After it debuted at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday, it is slated to arrive in theaters nationwide on Friday.
Reviews for the upcoming animated film The Garfield Movie, featuring the voice of Chris Pratt, 44, have not been the cat's meow. Pratt pictured at the film's premiere Sunday at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles
The film is an adaptation of the popular comic strip that debuted in the late 1970s
IGN Movies critic A.A. Dowd said that while the film 'promisingly echoes the simple art work of its comic-strip inspiration ... what it really takes from the Jim Davis material is a shameless cynicism, evident in the corporate product placement and pandering pop-culture references.'
Dowd said that Pratt’s 'phoned-in performance as a phone-addicted Garfield doesn’t help,' and that 'kids might be mildly entertained, but that doesn’t make this less of a hairball.'
The Movie Cricket's Sean P. Means said, 'I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie as bland generic as The Garfield
