It’s taken 25 years to bring the big orange comic strip feline to the big screen, but “Garfield: The Movie” finally made it, for better or worse. The lasagna loving cat and his human pet, Jon (Breckin Meyer) live an idyllic suburban life until a cute veterinarian (Jennifer Love-Hewitt) convinces Jon to adopt a homeless pup named Odie. When an indignant Garfield manages to get Odie lost, a frantic search commences. It’s a race against time to save Odie from a life as a TV sidekick, forced to perform by an electric shock collar. It’s a mostly innocuous film that will likely appeal most to six-year-olds, but will probably bore parents to tears. “Garfield: The Movie” should have been made during the comic strip’s heyday, when it would have been most appreciated by everyone who had the stuffed toy cat suction-cupped to the back window of the family station wagon. “Garfield: The Movie” is rated PG for brief mild language.
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