While Garfield the Movie is not the first movie to try the CGI/Live-Action idea out, it was one of the movies that brought that idea into popularity as it would make room for similar movies to follow such as 2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks and 2011’s The Smurfs. Despite poor critical reviews the movie would go on to be a hit at the box office making 75,4 million nationwide. This movie used to make me smile as a kid. While some aspects of the film like the music and Bill Murray as Garfield did make sitting through the movie worth it, everything else from the storytelling to the side characters was all wrong for a movie trying to represent the Garfield name. This is an unfortunate case where the nostalgia goggles have come off my head and revealed to me how mediocre this movie really is.