Garfield is coming to the big screen with Chris Pratt voicing the beloved, iconic, grumpy orange tabby.
The comic strip debuted in nationwide syndication in June 1978 and 45 years and 11 months later, the lasagna-loving Garfield is getting the feature-length treatment.
The highly anticipated trailer for the film just dropped and it is a hilarious ride through the antics Garfield fans have loved for decades.
The synopsis describes the movie as the ‘world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat is about to have a wild outdoor adventure.’
Alongside Pratt, 44, other actors voicing characters in the film include Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Ving Rhames and Bowen Yang.
‘After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father — scruffy street cat Vic (Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist,’ the synopsis continued.
Pratt was cast as the voice of Garfield in November 2021 and at the time wrote, ‘Well this Monday doesn’t suck….,’ on Instagram alongside a photo of Garfield looking satisfied.
There were two previous animated Garfield films with Bill Murray voicing the cat in 2004’s Garfield: The Movie and its sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties in 2006.
The trailer begins with Garfield as a kitten observing a busy restaurant from across the street. Jon Arbuckle sits at a table by the window alone eating a pizza when he notices Garfield outside and opens the window to let him in.
He offers the cat a piece of pepperoni and one thing leads to another and Garfield inhales the whole pizza and then everyone else’s in the restaurant too.
Garfield and Jon go home where he is introduced into a life of pampering and as much lasagna as he can eat.
In one cute scene Jon, Garfield and Odie are sitting down for a lasagna dinner and Jon is grating parmesan over the fat cat’s dish. He asks him to say when.
Garfield responds ‘Never Jon. Cover me in cheese.’
Before he dives into his pan of lasagna, Pratt’s Garfield looks into the camera and offers a warning to the audience.
‘I apologize in advance. The eating you’re about to see will not be pretty. And if you have young children, this would be a good time for them to leave the room.’
But Garfield and Odie’s life is thrown into disarray when Garfield’s feline dad, a mangy street cat named Vic shows up.
Vic attempts to train the fat house cat in the ways of the streets, hopping onto a train with him and then telling him to jump out and ends up throwing him off the train which results in Garfield ping ponging from one location to another with the velocity of his fall.
At the end of the trailer, it asks ‘Does your cat act like Garfield’ and invites pet owners to submit videos of their cats and dogs acting like the famous tabby to be a part of the film’s marketing.
Garfield hits theaters on May 24, 2024.
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