No thanks. I'll stick to Garfield and Friends

Be sure to downgrade this new movie with all your socks. 🧦​🧦​🧦​🧦​🧦​🧦​🧦​
As soon as IMDb ratings are possible.

It's not particularly good Garfield, though.

The best for me are the comics from 1978 to about 1982, plus the ONE good 'special' - I love the Garfield actor's voice in that one, although the story isn't particularly interesting. It still has some charm, some soul and some kind of heart as well, plus, it's adequately animated.

Instead of just 'wacky and crazy' (though it somewhat is that, too), it ends on a more somber family feeling, where even Odie gets some kind of love and respect. There's no compassion in modern things, only very calculated moments.

It's like they let AI write everything now - someone praised the 'cute' moments when Garfield is shown as a kitten, but that's not cute. That's 'calculated cute', which means that it wasn't organically made into something cute, it was very specifically made by very specific 'cuteness' rules to be as appealing to women and children as possible.

Make the eyes big. No, bigger. Even bigger! That's right. Now, make them look sad and do a 'cutesy movement' with his paws and a cute meaowing and purring sound.

That's about it. Your 'cuteness' was entirely calculated and manufactured, it was not created (there is a difference). It's manipulation by paint-by-numbers type artificial cuteness, it's 'forced cute' if anything, not anything ACTUALLY cute.

But unwashed masses never understand the difference, so they are easily manipulated by this crap. Hence, the Emoji movie..