| Garfield Gets Real | |
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 Garfield Gets Real DVD art and packaging |
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| Directed by | Mark A.Z. Dippé |
| Produced by | Jim Davis |
| Written by | Jim Davis |
| Starring | Frank Welker Gregg Berger Greg Eagles Wally Wingert Jason Marsden Jennifer Darling Pat Fraley Neil Ross Stephen Stanton Fred Tatasciore |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | October 1, 2007(theatrically) November 20, 2007 (DVD) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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| IMDb profile | |
Garfield Gets Real is a computer-generated animated movie starring Garfield the Cat, produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Wonderworld Studios and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. It is written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the fall of 2005. This will be the first fully animated Garfield film since the last Garfield and Friends TV episode aired in 1995, and the first to be written by Davis since the 1991 television special Garfield Gets a Life. The DVD was released in stores November 20, 2007. A short preview was on the Garfield and Friends: Behind the Scenes, Garfield and Friends: An Ode to Odie, and Garfield and Friends: Dreams & Schemes DVD.
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Tagline
- Reality just a got a whole lot more fun.
Plot
Bored with his life as a comic strip star, Garfield escapes from Comic Strip Land to the Real World. But soon realizes that if he doesn't make it back to the Cartoon World before the next newspaper goes to print, his comic strip will be canceled. To make things more difficult, obstacles are getting in his way.
Voice cast
| Cast | Role |
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| Jennifer Darling | Bonita, Bobby, Rusty, Mother[1] |
| Pat Fraley [1] | Sid, Deliverly Gnome[1] |
| Jason Marsden | Nermal [2] |
| Neil Ross | Wally, Charles[1] |
| Frank Welker | Garfield, Hardy, Keith, Prop Boy, Two Headed Guy, Goth Boy[1] |
| Wally Wingert | Jon Arbuckle [3], Mike[1] |
| Gregg Berger | Odie, Shecky |
| Stephen Stanton | Randy Rabbit |
Background information
According to Garfield.com, which launched an official web site for the movie on July 18, 2007, Davis' script "...provides an insider's view of the world of comic strip production." [2] The movie site was updated weekly with news, games etc. Garfield, Jon Arbuckle, Odie, Nermal, and Arlene appeared as well as new characters named Wally, Bonita, Billy Bear, Randy Rabbit, Eli, Charles, Betty, Prop Boy, and Zelda. Other characters include Shecky, Shelia, Waldo, Hardy, and Ashley.
Information
- Color- Technicolor
- Audio- English Only (USA and UK only)
- Subtitled- English (Single Layer: 3 dots on question mark, 3 dots on extermation point and 3 dots)
Cast members
Main characters
New characters
- Wally Stegman(voiced by Neil Ross) is a human who is from a comic called "Life Stinks." He is a nerdy mechanical engineer who is responsible for creating the Bonitanator, which serves as a transport from Cartoon World to the Real World.
- Bonita Stegman (voiced by Jennifer Darling) is a woman from the comic "Life Stinks" with an extremely large long nose who constantly belittles her husband and his inventions.
- Billy Bear (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) is a friendly bear who stars in a kid's comic strip "Billy Bear's Woods". His special talent is blowing his nose to sound like a horn and a whoopee cushion.
- Randy Rabbit (voiced by Stephen Stanton) is Billy Bear's sidekick from the comic "Billy Bear's Woods." He is a friendly, happy rabbit who hates fishing.
- Charles (Voiced by Neil Ross) is a director at Comics Studios who tells the stars when to start making the comic.
- Betty (voiced by Jennifer Darling) is an art director and editor in Comics Studios who films the comic stars and makes them comics.
- Prop Boy (voiced by Frank Welker) is a human who sets the props up at Comics Studios. He is noted for being extremely hyperactive and runs very fast. Prop Boy also spends time looking for his prop bone Odie stole.
- Zelda (voiced by Jennifer Darling) is a human character who is the cafeteria worker at Comic Strip studios. She is very old, but she is said to be a great dancer.
- Eli (voiced by Greg Eagles) is an African American man who is Head Technician at the comic studio.
- Shecky (voiced by Gregg Berger) is a cat from the real world. He initially doesn't believe Garfield and Odie are from the comics.
- Sheila is a female cat, one of Shecky's friends. Arlene is extremely jealous of her for stealing Garfield.
- Waldo is a dog, one of Shecky's friends. He is dim, but very friendly.
- Hot dog vendor guy is a human character from the real world. He reads the newspaper and sells the hot dogs.
- Ashley is a human girl character from the real world who reads the comic strips. She is young and loves to read Billy Bear.
- Hale and Hardy the main antagonists, are musclebound dogs in the real world who plan to take Garfield's place on the comics page when his strip is to be canceled.
Trivia
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- This was the first Garfield film that is entirely CGI.
- This is a rare occasion where the animals lips move when they talk. In most of the comics, TV specials & show, and other media, they would speak in thoughts (with the exception of Garfield: His 9 Lives and Garfield's Judgment Day). Garfield would often note that his lips never move.
- It was revealed that this film was made because 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment came to Paws, Inc.(The studio that created Garfield) to ask them to make some direct-to-video feature films.
- Jim Davis started the script in the fall of 2005.
- Garfield's green eyes are loosely visible in this film if you look closely.
- This film was given a limited theatrical release on October 1, 2007.
- In the new trailer for this film, the name of the cartoon world where Garfield lives in before he escapes to the Real World is "Comic Strip Land."
- Surprisingly, the real comic-strip characters Dagwood and Grimmy make cameos at the Comic Studio
- The one main difference between the Real World and the Comic World, besides the physics of both worlds, is that, if one were to look carefully, the Comic World is cel-shaded, whereas the Real World is not.
- Frank Welker, the voice of Garfield, voiced Lorenzo in Garfield Gets a Life (1991) and several characters in Garfield and Friends (1988-1994). This marks the third time Welker voiced a character in the Garfield franchise.
- Flushed Away has a similar plot.
- Like Garfield, many characters (Jon, Odie, etc.) have visible colored irises.
Quotes
- [from trailer]
Garfield: I'm in the real world. I'm a real cat!
- [from trailer]
Garfield: I'm tired of the same old thing over and over and over again.
- [from trailer]
[Garfield messes with the buttons]
Eli: Garfield!
- [from trailer]
Shecky: That is one crazy cat.
- Garfield: Every time I hit the bottom, someone hands me a shovel.
- Prop Boy [after realizing that prop bone is in the real world]:
Hey! That's my bone!
Featured Living Animals
- Tabby cat- Garfield, Nermal
- Beagle - Odie
- Feral cat- Arlene
- Grizzly Bear- Billy Bear
- Jackrabbit - Randy Rabbit
- Domestic longhaired cat - Sheila
- Tortoiseshell cat - Shecky
- Pug - Waldo
- Boxer (dog) - Hale and Hardy
- Chihuahua (dog) - Real world animals attracted to Odie's bone
Movie connections
- Flushed Away- Garfield Jumps into the screen to the real world, The same way as Roddy falls into the sewers of London, England.
- Indiana Jones Adventure- When Jon Arbuckle, Billy bear, Wally, Shecky, Odie and Garfield ride the cart down the stairs in the flaming and Burning Hotel, that scene was based on the Disneyland ride, the Indiana Jones Adventure.
- Cool World - Both films tell of comic-book characters who grow bored of their lives and escape into the Real World.
