Anyone can bash Garfield — the sport has become so egalitarian that there must be a backlash
on the way (you know, some postmodern analysis demonstrating how
Garfield blah blah blah blah, it’s not even worth imagining) — but
there’s still something satisfying about watching the pro’s do it.
Like, for example, the New York Times:

A cat who eats lasagna! Isn’t that the craziest thing you’ve ever heard? Here’s something even crazier: someone at 20th Century Fox has decided
that “Garfield,” Jim Davis’s long-running syndicated comic strip,
tolerated by millions of newspaper readers around the world, should be
adapted into a movie…

…The guiding principle behind “Garfield,” directed by Pete Hewitt from a
script by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, seems be that jokes that barely
raise a chuckle when stretched across three pen-and-ink panels become
gems of hilarity once they are outfitted with celebrity voices,
soundtrack music (James Brown’s “I Feel Good” — how original!) and
computer-generated special effects…

…In the paper the weary smile provoked by Garfield’s sarcasm or Odie’s
idiocy will seem like a positive bargain. You’ve spent 50 cents, and
you still have the Jumble and the box scores to see you through your
morning coffee…

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