The Garfield Movie

The characters are mostly animated animals (and a few humans); they're voiced by a multicultural cast, including several Black actors (Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Snoop Dogg, etc.) and a couple of actors of Asian descent (Bowen Yang, Dev Joshi). Garfield's laziness, size, and larger-than-life appetite (especially for lasagna) are played for laughs: There are many jokes about his prodigious diet and his difficulty fitting into spaces, plus one sight gag where he breaks a scale. The most prominent female characters—Jinx (Hannah Waddingham) and Marge (Cecily Strong)—are villains.

Kitten Garfield is left alone, sad and scared, in a dark, rainy alley; he believes he's been abandoned by his father. Many scenes of slapstick/comedic violence involving falls, face-smackings, punches, hits, near misses with passing cars, and more. A cat swallows a bird, and another bird is electrocuted on an electrified fence and wobbles around, charred-looking, before toppling over. Garfield, Odie, and others face peril from two henchdogs, pound workers, a security officer with an electric cattle prod, and a cat focused on vengeance (who wields an ax at one point). Several chase scenes: Two involve pursuits in and on top of a moving train; one involves molten cheese and very sharp blades in a dairy facility. A few moments seem life or death, and characters are injured and survive several near misses, but no one besides the charred bird expires. Characters are tied up, restrained, imprisoned. Menacing dogs attack and destroy mannequins. A character falls into a pile of manure. Garfield snuggles under a blanket that turns out to be infested with spiders.

In one quick scene on Catflix, there's a scene from a (fake) romantic movie that involves a quick kiss. Mention of dating apps. A forcibly separated bull and cow yell "You are my day / You are my night!" to each other. When they're reunited, they kiss, and then another animal closes a shade, obscuring the view while the song "Let's Get It On" plays. The scene could be seen as suggestive.

Infrequent insults include "outcast," "loser," "thug," "crazy," "worthless." One use of British slang "bloody" and a use of "poop." A vet tech yells "We're going to need the other scale" when Garfield breaks the scale. Potty humor. Garfield is nicknamed "roadkill" and refers to himself as "zaftig."

An animal is offered a drink called a Meow-mosa, and milk is served in martini glasses.