Garfield's Fun Fest

Garfield's Fun Fest
Cover art for the Garfield's Fun Fest DVD
Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé
Produced by Jim Davis
Written by Jim Davis
Starring Frank Welker
Gregg Berger
Tim Conway
Greg Eagles
Wally Wingert
Jason Marsden
Jennifer Darling
Pat Fraley
Neil Ross
Stephen Stanton
Fred Tatasciore
Audrey Wasilewski
Narrated by Tim Conway
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Lionsgate Home Entertainment (UK)
Release date
  • August 5, 2008 (2008-08-05)
Running time
 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Garfield's Fun Fest is a 2008 CGI movie starring Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis as a sequel to Garfield Gets Real. The DVD was released in stores on August 5, 2008. It was followed by a third direct to video film, Garfield's Pet Force, in 2009.

Plot

Garfield and his friends enter a talent contest, the Fun Fest, but as the audience was not entertained by his performance another cat (with bigger muscles and an accent) arrives to compete against him, Leonard.

He and Odie venture into a forest and climb a steep mountain in search of the legendary "Funny Water", which is supposed to make them more humorous. They gather some of the water and fly back to the studio using a hang glider, only to find that Leonardo is dancing with his girlfriend Arlene. Just as Garfield is about to give up, Freddy Frog tells him to search within himself for his own humorous talent, so Garfield beats Leonardo and wins the Fun Fest. Leonardo is revealed to be a robot controlled by Nermal, as the latter also sought to win the contest's prize.

Although the script lacks literary depth and the film garnered no important accolades or serious critical notice, it does contain elements of the meta-story (the film opens with one of the characters reading a story; a character from that story later appears in the main exposition, and is ultimately revealed to be the narrator of the entire film, itself merely a story), metatheatrical overtones (the characters inhabit a comic strip and are aware of it), and the quest motif (the protagonist, Garfield, must travel through strange lands, overcome various obstacles, and achieve transformative wisdom to attain his goal).

Cast

Additional voices

  • Cathy Cavadini -
  • Kaden Dippe -
  • Greg Finley -
  • Jeffery Todd Fischer -
  • David Michie -
  • Paige Nan Pollack -
  • Ruth Zalduando -

Video game

A Nintendo DS game that is based on the film was released on July 29, 2008. It was developed by Black Lantern Studios and published by DSI Games in North America and Zoo Digital Publishing in Europe.

Future

Following the success of Fun Fest, a sequel to the film, titled Garfield's Pet Force, was released as a direct-to-video film on DVD and Blu-ray. The film was released on June 16, 2009. It is the final instalment in a trilogy of computer animation Garfield films, including Fun Fest and Garfield Gets Real. [1]

References

  1. ↑ "Alcon Plans A Series of Fully-CG 'Garfield' Features". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved May 26, 2016.

http://ds.gamespy.com/nintendo-ds/garfields-fun-fest/

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