Splut Week starts on the 3rd of February this year! How will you be celebrating Splut Week?
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2024 has come and gone. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Garfield Movie tie-in game, announced last year, has likely been silently cancelled. For more information, see this article:
We know virtually nothing about the Garfield Movie game. For all we know, it might have just been delayed to 2025, as unlikely as that is. We don't know who was contracted to develop it, but the article linked above lists some potential companies. The issue is, most of those companies' websites list no contact information. So, as a last-ditch effort to get some concrete information on this game, I'm asking if any members of this wiki have any gaming press connections who might be able to contact the companies listed in that article, and get some answers.
@YonasE7 From what I understand, some investment startup bought the video game rights to a bunch of then-upcoming movies at some point last year, then hired a bunch of small development studios to actually develop the games. The Garfield Movie was just one of the many tie-in games they announced as part of the deal.
I'm not sure what you mean.
I'm beginning to worry that the tie-in game for The Garfield Movie has been quietly cancelled. It's supposedly going to be released sometime this year, but we're in the latter half of the year, the film has been out of theatres for a month or two, and as far as I can tell we haven't heard anything about it since it was announced. Have any official sources said anything about it recently? Because I can't find any news about it, other than its announcement from back before the film was out.
It's impossible to answer this kind of question without specifying what era of the comic you're talking about. Case in point, my thoughts:
1976-1978 (Jon): Still finding its feet as a comic, it's more interesting than it is enjoyable, and it's only minorly interesting.
1978-1980: You can start to see what eventually made Garfield so popular, but the comic is still evolving. It's okay.
1980-1990: Garfield's peak, as far as I'm concerned. His character was solidified, and the gags are consistently solid.
1990-1995: The comic gets a bit wackier, and a little less consistent in terms of quality.
1995-2000: The characters' characterisations start to shift, and the humour goes even further downhill.
2000-Present: The characters are parodies of themselves, the jokes rarely have identifiable punchlines, and it's overall a very miserable experience. You'll get maybe ten or so genuinely funny comics per year.
I wouldn't call that good news. The Peanuts movie was a work of art. The Garfield Movie was a lazy corporate product.
"Calm down son, it's just a drawing"
I'm currently partway through season 5, but I remember the quality of the episodes being a bit more consistent in seasons 2 and 3. Plus, season 3 doesn't have any songs in the U.S. Acres segments. I like some of those songs, but most of them are pretty boring, and they tend to drag on for a while.
Most of the spiders Garfield swats are shown to be seriously injured, but not killed.
Now, Garfield's habit of eating birds? Yeah, that one's a lot less ambiguous.
Firstly, chris pratt gave a surprisingly good performance. He's still a terrible choice for Garfield, but I feel like he did about as good of a job as he could have. Unfortunately, for most of the other voice actors, it kind of felt like they were phoning it in. The plot is quite generic and predictable, and only slightly reminiscent of the classic TV specials. It was surprisingly action-packed, but in terms of humour, there were very few jokes that I found enjoyable. Most of them fell flat, or worse yet, made me cringe. In particular, the film's attempts to integrate "modern" technology into the plot and humour are quite poorly executed. Somehow, the food delivery drones were integrated more smoothly into the plot and humour than the cell phones, which is bizarre considering that cell phones have been around for far longer than food delivery drones.
The film's visual design was overall quite nice, however the redesigns of the main characters leave something to be desired. It strayed quite far from the Garfield artstyle at some points, though I'm willing to forgive that aspect since I generally found the film to be very visually appealing.
In conclusion: if you go into the movie wanting an action-comedy, it's going to fall flat. If you go into the movie wanting a good Garfield adaptation, you're going to be disappointed. If you go into the movie wanting both of those things simultaneously, it might just barely be more or less worthwhile. I have high hopes for the tie-in video game, since the film's focus on action would lend itself to a game adaptation fairly well, though the fact that the film is about to leave theatres and we haven't heard anything about the game since it was announced is a bit concerning.
The painting in the first two panels looks very familiar. I could swear I've seen it in some other comics, and possibly even the PS2 Garfield game. Does anyone else have any other examples of places where it appears?
It's not really a "ship" if it's official, is it?
The Caught in the Act soundtrack was already remastered for the Windows port, and the Week of Garfield soundtrack is a bunch of fairly generic chiptune stuff. The only option that makes sense is The Search for Pooky, though it's far from the only Garfield game with a bangin' soundtrack.
Mine is Shopping Mall 1.
I'm a big fan of the U.S. Acres gang, but I think the main issue with Lanolin is her inconsistent characterisation. In the first few episodes where she appears, she comes across as fairly three-dimensional, but then they started to use her less often and her characterisation shifted into something a lot flatter and less dynamic.
I will also say that I find the U.S. Acres characters a lot more likeable in the show than in the comic.
I hated all of them, but I recall Fun Fest being the most bearable.
The U.S. Acres gang aren't any more anthropomorphic than Garfield, aside from the fact that their mouths move when they talk. However, Garfield's mouth also moves in The Garfield Show and the live-action Garfield movies, and humans still can't hear him in those.
Jim Davis confirmed that the U.S. Acres farm is right next to Arbuckle Farm. Plus, they've done a ton of crossovers on GaF.