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Avg. Critic Score: 37 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
6 Iffy for 6+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is actually funnier and more charming than the first film. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    A genuinely clever kidpic that should delight moppets, please parents -- and maybe tickle a few tweens. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    The movie is intermittently amusing, particularly when the American human part of the cast (Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt) are off-screen, the longer and farther the better. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    To borrow and slightly emend the words of Shakespeare: That cat will mew, but this dog will have the day. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Scott Brown

    In the ''flesh,'' Garfield himself (voiced by Bill Murray) is once again strikingly unlikable, a bloated, bingeing fascist. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    This lifeless, talky, family-oriented feature never manages to rise to the occasion of its witty title. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    In a town as status-conscious as Hollywood, the embarrassment of two "Garfield" movies on your rsum must sting like the Dickens. Read full review

  • 38
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    Though Murray and Curry gamely deliver some chuckle-worthy one-liners along the way, they're mostly leashed to material as moldy and uninspired as the "Jeffersons" theme song. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    It comes off like a coughed-up furball: a wan rehash with too many elements of the hard-to-swallow 2004 original. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    Children will enjoy the physical humor, but discerning adults are advised to pawn their sons and daughters off on some other unsuspecting chaperone -- preferably one who doesn't read movie reviews. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 6+ Tedious Garfield sequel with crude jokes.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that film includes crude humor. The villain makes rude comments about female bodies, and behaves in a predatory fashion. He also tries to drown the (animated) cat, trains his Rottweiler to attack the cat, and schemes to gain control of an inherited estate; he wields crossbow and an old-fashioned gun. The cat teases and abuses a smaller dog repeatedly, then draws the big dog into a trap by calling him a "girly dog." The dog bites a man in the crotch and the butt on separate occasions; a man is ravaged by animal-orchestrated hijinks. Animals take over and trash a kitchen (a ferret gets drunk). Some potty humor.
  • Families can talk about Garfield's laziness and selfishness: How does his stint as a pretend "prince" teach him to appreciate his generous owner Jon? They could also talk about why Garfield is so likeable despite his many bad qualities.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Dargis lies, cheats, and tries to kill Prince (a cat) to inherit a British estate; flatulence and potty humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence and scariness: Animated cats and live-action animals involved in cartoonish violence: a cat kicks and otherwise abuses a dog; a cat is dumped in a river to drown (emerges from sewer very dirty), a dog bites a man's crotch and "bottom," a dog pees on a Royal British guard (leading to a chase through the streets); slapsticky abuses of Dargis at end (he's chewed by a dog, falls, gets punched); he pulls out crossbow and gun to keep adversaries at bay.
  • sex false0 Sexy stuff: Jon yearns for Liz and they kiss at the end; Dargis insinuates sex with Abby and makes crude remark to Liz ("That makes two of you," alluding to her breasts).
  • language false0 Language: Use of "sleaze," someone calls Dargis a "tool."
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Tie-ins to Garfield products.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking; ferret gets drunk.
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