The Worst Garfield EVER?
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In A Tail of Two Kitties Garfield goes to London to dance and do a Prince and the Pauper story... but mostly dance.
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You know, a better excuse for them to be in England is that they are already married and they were going there for their honeymoon. Thought about it in 2 seconds, and it makes more sense than this random Vet being on par enough with Jane Goodall to take her place.
Honestly thought that was what they were going for in the trailer back then 😅
Maybe put the awkward cute proposal in a flashback and start no earlier than the end of the wedding, quickly moving to landing at Heathrow. Something like that.
@@markiangooley Exactly!
bUt ThEn We’Ll HaVe NoThInG fOr ThE tHiRd MoViE.
- the Producers (probably)
Good point.
Poor Phelan getting publicly outed as a child Garfield comic artist by his own wife 😂
What are you talking about? If anything, this just proves Phelous was a comedic genius from a young age.
I feel like Allison would leave Garfield 2 on Phelan’s pillow to jumpscare him every time he woke up. And eventually he agreed to review it so she’d stop.
Bill Murray turned down a proper sequel to ghostbusters for over 30 years but starred in two garfield movies.
Contracts are a bitch poor Bill
my guess is the contract he signed for the first one included the sequel so he couldn't back out after he knew it was a bad idea.
@@ivorynk752 Idk about that by the time these movie came out Murray had enough industry clout and connections to turn down any project. He made a choice to make that sequel just like he made a choice not to come back to the series that launched his career until after ramis died.
@@EdgeO419 Even a project he already signed the contract for? I am under the impression he signed for 2 movies in one contract.
Bill Murray was also in Space Jam...
The sequel we didn't know we needed.
Because we didn't. We definitely didn't need this.
This is one of my favourite movies, I can totally understand why people hate it though. And I don’t blame them, because looking back at the movie, there are some things that doesn’t make any sense, and the “jokes” aren’t as funny.
Your comment is funnier than anything that happened in Tail of 2 Kitties...
"it was the worst of times, it was the worst of times" - Intro to the novelization of Garfield Tale of Two Kitties.
Why do you have the novelization
@@skibot9974you’d be surprised what movies end up getting a novelization
@@crimsondynamo615 I get that I’m asking why you own it
Considering how embarrassed Bill Murray was to be in these movies I wonder if Lorenzo Music somehow arranged all this from beyond the grave as a way of getting back at him for getting him fired from the real Ghostbusters.
Dave Coulier arranged it so he could take over the Garfield role.
@@jj48 and yet that'd still be better than Chris Pratt.
I consider it karmic retribution for being a terrible person to his fellow workers on set and getting away with having the public image of being charming and charismatic for so long
For a fat lazy cat who doesn't exercise, Garfield sure is energetic in this movie.
It would have been funnier if Prince was the First Mouser instead of this lazy Garfield clone. Imagine Prince actually hunting mice in Jon's hotel, then Jon discovering there are mice in his hotel and freaking out. Imagine Garfield being put in front of a mouse in 10 Downing Street and doing what he usually does with mice, which is nothing. Imagine Liz being called to treat "Prince" and discovering it's Garfield. So much wasted possibilities.
Imagine if every time he tried to dance, he's be pacing around for ten minutes, catching his breathe like a real life fat person doing this much exercise.
Well I'm a big girl and I'm pretty agile 😂😂 but I suppose maybe I'm not as lazy as Garfield
Wait till you see people who are plus size doing ballet and I commend them.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 plus sized people can do a lot of things. We're not immobile
Even as a kid, watching this as a Brit was so weird bc English Aristocrat Garfield clone voiced by Tim Curry is the most 'American writing a Brit' thing ever.
Honestly, the _Aristocats_ is a _better movie_ than people give credit for. Those dogs still crack me up.
I think that besides the one racist bit, the biggest "problem" with Aristocats is that it's a very "old-style" animated movie where the plot isn't that strong, but it's got light songs and cartoony antics, so it just doesn't hit the same way now because that's not what people are expecting in an animated movie.
It’s every bit as bad when it’s in the other direction.
They should have just made Odie a weird CGI thing too, that way they could have had Garfield be mean to him without having to do it to a cute, actual dog. They also should have had a moment where Garfield and Tim Curry Cat are dancing, then Curry Cat stops and looks all serious says, "Garfield, can you help me find the lost city of Zinj?"
A cameo from Mathew, Ziggy, Wabuu, Wuschel and Fat Orange Cat? Now, this is the most ambitious crossover of all time.
Just needs Old Man and Siro.
Garfield: a tail of two kitties is undoubtedly the Cohen brother's magnum opus
More like their magnum o _piss._
Phelan playing with the plushie is better than the entire movie.
It was the worst of Garfield, it was the best of Garfield. Or was it just the worst? I'm too lazy to think about it. Where's my lasagna?
It was the Blurst of Garfield...
I like that the Garfield imdb page just makes up whatever trivia they want
It’s imdb. They’re hardly trustworthy anymore.
Who’s going to bother fixing this page when it’s Garfield a tale of two kitties
First of all, Ziggy is freaking ADORABLE. Second, we better see the rest of that Garfield comic.
I also want to read the full comic
I'm glad that the zombie Garfield plush is getting some love. Too bad your real kitty didn't want in on this.
I love the fact that every time you and Allison do a video together, it inevitably devolves into you just goofing around with each other. Y'all seem like you're having a lot of fun. ^^
I'm thinking back to the Wee Sing Chirstmas movie where they got lost in riffing about old SNL skits.
Real missed opportunity of the filmmakers to call this movie “The Purrince and the Pawper”. It makes more sense and it’s double the cat pun.
Yes, and it avoids confusing people who might think it’s a spoof of A Tale of Two Cities rather than roughly The Prince and the Pauper. Of course almost everyone has heard of A Tale of Two Cities but probably most people don’t know what it’s about…
@@markiangooley Oh, I love A Tale of Two Cities! That's Dickens' classic story of an American cat going to London, and then nothing really happening, right?
Yeah, but that requires a modicum of effort, which the filmmakers were clearly loathe to expend in any regard.
Billy Connolly was meant to be John Cleese, I'm pretty sure, which is why in this he's basically just playing John Cleese/Fawlty
It was just about the most John Cleese performance I've ever seen by someone who wasn't John Cleese.
I wouldn't be surprised if John Cleese was the original casting choice for whatever Billy Connolly's role was...
I thought it was John Cleese at first.
He even looks like Cleese. If they hadn’t said it was Billy I might have missed it.
I love how these duo reviews are completely different from the normal reviews. Its a nice change of pace and good for just playing in the background
Not unlike a lot of Allison's recent movie nights videos... I don't think she's done a solo Movie Nights vid in quite a while.
At least, the trailer was honest calling it catastrophic
Don’t you just LOVE how Jon can’t tell the cat he found has a different accent?😅 yeah this movie is the PRINCE of CATASTROPHE 😜
Jon isn’t too bright in any form of Garfield
Honestly I’d prefer a Tim Curry cat over a Bill Murray cat anyday 😅
@@JThom529 I'm picturing Garfield peeking out of a storm drain. "We're all fat down here!" "Do you have Chef Boyardee in a can? You do? Well you better let the poor guy out! A-HA! a-HA! a-HA! Also feed me."
I thought the humans can't understand the animals in the movies.
@@moviesandtvseriesclips1619he’s not actually talking in the comics either, we can just hear his thoughts
Poor Ziggy is probably traumatized by that cursed plushie.
30:00 “I, Stupid parrot am your new leader!” “This is bad comedy”
No cape? No crown? Call this a coronation?
Can't sleep...zombie Garfield will eat me...
Also the surrealness of Joe Pasquale being in a Hollywood kid's film.
Honestly, instead of Bill Murray playing as Garfield, it should of been Harold Ramis playing as Garfield. His voice comes much closer to Garfield in my personal opinion.
1:03 Loving the amount of distain Phelan can convey with a simple change of expression.
Man's the Canadian Jack Torrance to these awful movies lol
I’m surprised John Cleese wasn’t in this as the butler or one of the animals. This is the kind of tripe he’d take an easy paycheck for.
In "Secrets of the Muppets," there's a reference to England's strict laws about bringing animals into the country. Muppet dog Jojo notes that something is different about her in the long shots and Jim Henson explains it was easier to hire a different dog than bring the American dog actor to England, and Jojo will feel more like herself in the close-ups, when she's a puppet. But clearly, they should've just hidden the real dog in the luggage :D.
Ziggy looked absolutely terrified of bootleg Garfield. Proof that’s he’s an abomination even among his own kind 😆
A Garfield film with Tim curry playing another Garfield, sounds like a recipe for success.
My husband, another Garfield fan, suggested for us to watch that and I was like “Nope. I just need the classic Lorenzo Music stuff. I’m good.” He said he still wanted to watch it. He was warned.
There’s a director’s cut version of this movie (oh yes, Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties has a director’s cut). It’s mostly just additional and extended scenes, so I doubt you’d want to watch that (I don’t blame you)
This movie didn't just rip off Prince & the Pauper...
It ripped off Golden Films' Beauty & The Beast! The sack containing Prince got tossed into the water making him COMPLETELY USELESS NOW!!
...And it also shamelessly rips off The Aristocats too. With the Evil Butler wanting to kill a rich Cat to get the inheritance.
This IP got two terrible feature adaptions, It's good for nothing now
@@MediumRareOpinions Garfield had Lasagne made for him. I guess that means he was expected!
Garfield dancing isn't really as infrequent as you'd think. I mean, it's one of the first things he does in Here Comes Garfield
It just feels more like a mark on the checklist of bad kid's movies than anything else.
On the other hand, he didn't ever do covers- it was always something original, and often enough was more of a dancing along to the background Lou Rawls song. What in the ham sandwich is going on with these movies?
from zombieland:
Little Rock : So do you have any regrets?
Bill Murray : "Garfield," maybe.
Honestly i love this style of review. I really enjoy the laidback style you two do, its funny to see you both work off eachother with silly jokes and what not because it shows all the suffering of watching the live action garfield movie could atleast make you enjoy the moment in some way.
My main issue with this movie was how billy Connolly was acting like john cleese, as a kid i watched alot of Fawlty towers and the mannerisms were clearly written for Cleese and he mustve had a look at the script and been like... "Hell no im going to be a frog king in shrek instead!"
It took me a while to realize that wasn’t John Cleese. It’s like they dressed him up as John and told Billy to do his best impression of him
@@Jenninka glad I'm not the only one :D
John Cleese was also in the 2006 Pink Panther reboot... I am not sure if that is a step up or not...
I did have him confused for John Cleese for a second there
John Cleese was the best in Shrek 2.
I saw this in the theatre, or as we call it in Prince's home country, the cinema. In my defence I was only...19.
In all seriousness, the art style in the opening credits is interesting. Could they not have animated the movie like that? At least in that case it would have looked nice. Yes, of course the reason is money. It would still have been fun to see Garfield animated in that art style.
I love a comedy that's SO BAD, it subverts comedy itself by not having any kind of payoff to obvious joke setups.
Allison and Phelous reviews are always my fav ! I would love too see them go thrift shopping for old b movies / golden films / or just plain weird vhs tapes and review them. Lol also find old bootleg zone toys . 😆 that would be so cool to see them do that. I’m curious what thrift shops look like in nova scotia
It wasn't until I saw this review that I realized it was A Tail of Two Kitties, not a Tale of Two Kitties... That's probably one of the best jokes of the whole film, having seen this review.
I would love to see a full video of Phelous's facial reactions to watching Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties." That would've been CATASTROPHIC.
This movie came out the same exact year as such gems as Hostel, BloodRayne, Ultraviolet, The Hills Have Eyes 2, Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Stay Alive, Silent Hill, X-Men III: The Last Stand, The Omen remake, Turistas, Black Christmas remake, Superman Returns, Lady In The Water, & Pulse.
And sadly, Superman Returns was probably the best of those gems...
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives true. Also, some of these ended up becoming reviews by our humble host. ^-^
This definitely feels like something they decided to put together as quick as possible after the success of the first to strike while the iron is still hot, it released two years after the first so I can't imagine a lot of time was spent with pre-production and writing before filming and had to spend some time to do the CG stuff as well. Also happened with The Smurfs 2011 film, like Garfield it's sequel was released two years after the first and their sequel went to a foreign city, in Smurfs' case Paris.
I guess Garfield want a piece of a The Prince and The Paulper after Mickey Mouse did his own version
Also Barbie did an adaptation.
@@sakunaruful that one is my fave version
no one's going to mention that Billy Conway is doing an impression of John Cleese? Cleese was no doubt asked...but he turned it down...Good man, John Cleese.
John Cleese would then be in the Steve Martin Pink Panther movies...
I mean it could be good judgement or perhaps he'd already committed to something equally terrible already.
He did that for a paycheck. Actors do "paycheck movies" all the time! For one, Gal Gadot in "Snow white and the WEIRD, WEIRD!" She's "The evil Queen" (no name. Classy, Disney..) and she obviously doesn't care about this movie. @@TommyDeonauthsArchives
Oh yeah...he has to pay his ex-wife, or as he puts it "Feeding...the BEAST."@@MediumRareOpinions
Wow Prince and The Pauper meets Aristocats….glad I never saw this. Thanks for suffering for me. Amazed Disney couldn’t sue.
*CGI Garfield Head floats around Phelan and Allison echoing “HOUSECAT?!”*
Alison's face while Phelan is playing with the orange cat sells me on their entire dynamic
The pitch for the movie must have been like "So Garfield goes to London, and there's 2 Garfields now-" and they just went "Say no more! We'll put it in theatres everywhere!"
You can also consider this a ripoff of Disney's The Aristocats since it deals with the antagonist getting rid of the kittens.
It was not the sequel we wanted.
It was the sequel we deserved.
What terrible sins did we commit to deserve *this* ?
@@MediumRareOpinionsthe original sin, I guess
@@MediumRareOpinions We made the first film to begin with
OH MY LORD WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?! 🥺
Poor Billy Connolly, he's one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and in this he's like an Aldi's brand John Cleese.
Yeah even Bill Murray couldn't save this monstrosity.
Not even *TIM* *CURRY* could save this monstrosity!
I suppose you could consider the 2 Live Action Garfield Films karmic retribution for Bill Murray dunking Seth Green in a garage can when he was on the SNL set as a kid. "That's a thing BTW look it up."
The original Garfield would scoff at this version of Garfield who dances regularly throughout the movie. That would require effort and energy to do, and we know Garfield ain't about that.
he did do a bit of dancing in the opening for one of the cartoons at least
@@Feasco Huh, how about that? Well, either way, I'm sure it wasn't a breakdance. Just can't imagine Garfield breakdancing as he enters a room.
I used to watch Garfield Tail of 2 Kitties back in 2007 when it was on Movie Network on Demand. I was an easy kid to please back then. I loved the sequence where Garfield and the royal barnyard animals where making the lasagna and maybe the the Jeffersons theme cover...
It was a kind of nothing movie that i ate up as a kid, like lasagna... that had no meat or veggies whatsoever. Since then... i forgot about it for about 17 whole years... and yes, this was one of those movies not even Tim Curry could save...
Now to get a reply that says "Garfield 2 is fine! You are completely wrong!" by some stupid troll that won't respond no matter what i type to him/her.
I'd make a joke about the Zombieland cast asking these British actors if they have any regrets, but I doubt they even remember this film.
I do remember a line Tim Curry saying in Bailey's Billions about how his life used to be full of promise and now it's just a pile of doggie doo...
It honestly sums up Tim Curry's role in Garfield Tail of 2 Kitties...
That goofy eyed Garfield plush is still funny. I need to track down a copy at some point. ^-^
If you'd told me that Bill Murray and Billy Connoly were involved in the same movie, my gut reaction would be "yes please!"
If you then told me it was *this* movie, I'd have probably retched, and wept for the realisation it would be the only time they'd be anywhere near each other.
You two never disappoint when you’re on camera together. Was laughing throughout most of this review.
2:29 - 2:33 Dead-Eyed Phelan should become a meme.
From what I’ve heard (The source was deleted) this movie was supposed to be a US acres crossover, with most of the cast from Garfield and friends returning, however due to Roy’s VA pretty much disappearing after Lorenzo musics death and the failing health of Wade’s VA it was reworked into this. I don’t know if this was supported to be better or worse than what we got.
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Huh. Just found out they're doing a live-action Aristocats remake. That doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me, but it'll be interesting to see how it compares with this.
I, too, was underwhelmed by the first Garfield movie. And so I, too, didn't see the movie came out. So thank, Phelan and Allison, for letting me experience the movie without ever really having to watch it. You suffered so I didn't have to.
I didn't want to watch a tale with one of these things, very presumptuous of them to assume I'd watch one with two!
Fat Orange Cat plush is the best. It looks half rotted already, like it too was fished out from under the sea like the phones.
The only reason I remember this movie exists is the frustration I experienced with the stupid DS game's bullshit platforming. I still haven't completely forgiven my aunt for that birthday "gift".
2 Garfields played by Bill Murray and Tim Curry!😼
The last time we got Murray and Curry was Charlie's Angels.
It's like when these two are in a movie it's poison
Why??
See, that sounds hilarious. But it isn't. It is the opposite.
More like A Fail of two Kitties!
I found it hilarious watching Billy Connolley being horribly miscast as John Cleese. I also remember having to sit through the Garfield movies about 10 times each when I visited a friend for a few days because he'd bought both of them on DVD for his daughter, and she insisted on watching them. Repeatedly.
Isn't someone trying to get rid of a cat to get an inheritance the plot of "The Aristocats"?
Yes, indeed.
Yes, and that's not even very far-fetched in reality either. Because it's very common for rich people to leave their estate and money to their pets in their wills.
Ya gotta love the wholesome humor like Phelous’s Garfield comic he made as a kid, that’s so funny and adorable
Could've been worse. At least it isn't Garfield: Mission to Moscow.
Funny enough putting it on because it was on while I was babysitting my youngest brother is exactly the context under which I watched this film.
😅😂😂😂Crow: "Hey, look, it's Jackie Gleason and he's 'mooning' us!"
CAT-tastrophe until Tom Hooper makes CATS into a film. “MACAVITY”
...I forgot how much dancing cgi was in these two movies.
When I watched the first movie it was sort of a "OK, sure, let's what the deal with this is" and not any sort of enthusiasm or interest for it. But the sequel is a movie I've never felt the need to watch, even out of morbid curiosity.
You know, at least when Johnny Bravo did its own version of The Prince and The Pauper it had the decency of mocking the whole idea, to the point of even having Mark Twain show up and ask people to please stop abusing this story. Mind you, that episode was released 7 years before this movie.
23:28 Even in the Comic Strips I always Wondered that Garfeild or any Cat should not be eating Hot Food at all let alone Meat Sauce.
I see Vinnie Jones, I think "IT'S GONNA BE EMOTIONAL!!!" and a split-second later you make that reference, MWAH! *chef's kiss* 👌👌
i wonder if they got Billy Connolly because John Cleese said no.
They dance! They fart! They dance and dance and fart! Dance dance dance! Fart fart fart! The Garfield Colon A Tail of Two Kittiiiiiies.
The bit where Jon pulls the Prince cat from the sewer was filmed in York, the street was like half an hour's walk from my house.
I remember it was in the paper, and everything, which just made me laugh, that my city, they were proud to have Garfield 2 filmed here.
It was funny for two other reasons.
First, Jon grabs the cat, and the direction he goes leads to a river with nowhere else to go.
Second, if they were in London, why was Jon in a city 219 miles away, and how did Tim Curry cat end up there? Did they run out of time in London? Lol
At least there's no way Chris Pratt Garfield will be any worse than this
32:12 Phelous created this wow someone saw your comic and tried there own here you can say your the inspiration of Pet Force
One of the reasons why I loved the ending to Zombieland 2
13:25 Ziggy: (silently and cutely judging you)
I remember when I saw FB's BMB review (or was it a Projector episode) of this movie. Someone in the comment section made up a better synopsis of a Garfield Movie sequel than what we have here.
Went somewhere along the lines of this:
"John takes Liz and the pets to his parent's farm and Garfield & Odie meet and befriend the animals on U.S. Acres. Maybe implying the show took place canonically on Father Arbuckle's farm.
Some hijinks ensue and they work together to keep Orson's brothers from stealing some prize crops or whatever. Like in the actual cartoons."
Sounded like a better idea than what we originally got.
13:01 ZIGGY TIME!!
Also, more of Phelan's childhood fancomic, please.
Ah 2006 when I was about 7. All i remember about this one is it’s incredibly easy to tell who’s who by the voices 😂 a sequel video that is the perfect remedy for anything 😊 also the ‘prince’ getting put in a sack immediately reminds me of Ariocats especially the ‘being jealous of the cat and the owner giving all the inheritance to a cat😅
I was thinking the same thing! It’s like a poor man’s version of The Prince and the Pauper and The Aristocats
@@gracestarkes2644yeah 😂 I admit I do enjoy sharing what little i can remember of the movie before the review semi jogged my memory-ish🤷♀️
I can’t believe Phelan’s been in the same house for all these years.
The story of Bill Murray only signing on because he thought the director was one of the Cohen brothers is the best name mix up outside if Giuliani's Four Seasons landscaping press conference.
Ian Crombie was Professor Crumbs in Wizards of Waverly Place and Palpatine in CGI Star Wars clone wars series.
R.I.P.
What’s worse? Cat Scratch Fever or Bushwhacked Fever? lol
8:40 Maybe this movie was written with the Kulev stick. They had to film the first joke draft of the script because the paper they wrote it on became indestructible.
I loved seeing your comic, Phelan! Reminded me of comics that I wrote as a kid. I love it when creators share their early work.
Loved this movie along with the first one and those straight to dvd Garfield movies
Thank you for making the movie entertaining.