Purists will bellow BLASPHEMY at The Garfield Movie (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) while proponents of personal progress may hail it for pushing the title cat character far outside his comfort zone – you can’t please everyone, I guess. This is the third movie spotlighting the popular comic strip feline (hey, remember when newspaper comics could launch franchises? Wild times, wild times) known for being a laconic, chronic lasagna-eater, but it blazes new trails by delving into his origin story, and being his first all-animated outing (the previous two blended cartoons with live action, and famously featured Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield). Thus, significantly, we see Baby Kitty Garfield (get your AWWWWWs oiled and ready), and we meet his father, who drags him on a
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