The Hoopes

A few weeks ago my 13-year old daughter Clara said she wanted to see this new Garfield movie after we rode past a billboard advertisement for it. Now I had seen the trailer, which didn’t seem all that great, and asked her “Um, what if it’s bad?” “Doesn’t matter, I still want to see it,” she answered. So we did just that over Memorial Day weekend (also with my younger daughter, who really didn’t want to see it). As soon as the end credits roll, Clara leans over to me and says “That was so bad!” And we both laughed, which I can’t say we or anyone else in the theatre seemed to do throughout the entire movie. But we all had fun talking about how terrible it was on the ride home, so there’s that. We went in with low expectations and turns out they probably weren’t low enough lol. I didn’t hate it, it probably could have been worse. Nothing special. Maybe someday they can make a Garfield movie that the filmmakers actually seem to care about and not some quick cash grab without all the product placement. They played the Despicable Me 4 trailer before it started and that alone was like a masterpiece compared to this.

Not that great, not that bad. Definitely overhyped. Stopped watching in the middle of episode 5 a few weeks ago and may get back to it eventually. No rush. I mean *SPOILER* the aliens won’t be here for another 400 years anyway, and so far the human characters don’t seem all that captivating, soo…