Garfield's Fun Fest
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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 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis
as a sequel to Garfield Gets Real
in 1999. The DVD was released in stores on August 5, 2008. It was followed by a television series The Garfield Show
, with the same primary cast, beginning in December 2008, and a third direct to video film Garfield's Pet Force
in 2009.
The Comic Studio is all decorated for the "Fun Fest", and everybody is practicing for it. Then they get to work, but it's "Fun Fest" auditions instead. Garfield performs all the great scenes from all the great movies in 30 seconds with Arlene (James Bond
, The Wizard of Oz
, "Titanic
" etc.). After the auditions, Arlene comes into the living room with Garfield, telling him that she really wants to do the tango dance this year. She gives Garfield his costume. But Billy Bear, Randy Rabbit, and Wally all laugh at it. Garfield rejects Arlene's idea, and gives her another idea, which Arlene finds not amusing. The a cat named Ramón comes in and tells Arlene that he wants to do the dance with her. Arlene starts to like him which makes Garfield jealous. Ramón is successful at the auditions.
During the night, Garfield reads the storybook. In the morning, Odie (in his mime costume) comes in and shows Garfield it's Fun Fest that night. Jon calls Garfield and Odie for breakfast. Odie finds an envelope in the storybook and tries to get Garfield to read it in the kitchen, the car, and the dining room at the Comic Studio. All three attempts fail (because Garfield thinks Odie is playing a game of "Mailman" and is trying to cheer Garfield up). Odie tries to get Garfield to read it in the living room of Comic Studios. This attempt is successful and Garfield opens the envelope. Garfield finds a map to the funny water in the envelope. He sets the map on the table in the living room and Garfield demonstrates his plan. He'll go to the funny water to drink it and get funny in time for "Fun Fest" in the evening. However, Garfield knows its fiction, and rejects his own idea. Garfield and Odie leave for the funny water, after he sees Arlene in Ramón's strip.
According to the map, Garfield and Odie must first go through the Mystical Forest. While in the forest, Garfield and Odie meets certain misfits, like Stan the Squirrel, who annoys Garfield with his curtains. He also meets Junior the bear, who shows Garfield he should go right at a fork in the road saying "To get to the magic pond tonight, follow your heart and you'll always be right" (He is called by his mother who tells him that he should go to dinner). Garfield thinks that they should go right. But Odie disagrees by showing Garfield that he thinks that since their hearts are on the left side of their bodies, then if they follow their hearts, they must go left. They follow Odie's idea and they go left. Garfield and Odie come across a river and try to cross it, but they find out that there are alligators in the river. Two birds tell the duo that they should do stupid things and get the alligators to laugh so they can cross the river. Garfield tries to act stupid, but the alligators don't laugh. Garfield gives up and Odie decides to help Garfield and does stupid things causing the alligators to laugh loudly. While the alligators laugh, Garfield and Odie manage to get across the river. Garfield goes to a pond, supposedly the funny water, and he drinks the water. Then they see a tall frog in a mumu on a leaf, and the leaf floats near Garfield and Odie, and the frog goes onto land. The frog tells Garfield and Odie the water is not the funny water and it really is sludge water from a nearby town. Garfield spits the water out in disgust.
The frog reveals himself to be Freddy Frog from the story and tells Garfield that the magic pond (where the funny water is) had been moved years ago. Freddy puts Garfield and Odie through a series of comical challenges and they succeed as Freddy teaches Garfield how to be funny. Garfield and Odie reach the funny water by climbing up a really high ladder to a floating island and Garfield drinks it as well as saving some in a bottle (Freddy also reaches the island by taking the elevator. Garfield gets mad at Freddie asking him why he didn't tell him that there was an elevator. Freddy answers saying "You didn't ask."). The two realize they won't make it back in time for Fun Fest so Freddy provides them with a hang glider, telling them that all landings end with a crash. Garfield and Odie push it and fall down a cliff and almost collapse. However, the glider flies back into the air. After a bumpy flight, Garfield and Odie crash into the building and sees his role as host was given to Ramón because he didn't show up.
Garfield is about to drink the funny water he saved earlier, when he realizes the bottle got smashed when he landed the glider. Garfield believes he is no longer funny and feels too depressed to perform, especially without Arlene, and goes to the back alley. Freddy appears before him and Garfield begs him for more funny water. Freddy then tells him that the Funny Water is just regular plain water and he doesn't need it. Garfield claims he felt funnier after he drank the water and Freddy tells him that's because he IS funny and that he'd only forgotten to follow his heart (like Junior Bear said).
Garfield puts on his Tango costume and confronts Ramón while he is dancing with Arlene. Ramón throws Garfield onto the ceiling, but Garfield ties a rope to himself and jumps down. Garfield and Ramón fight over Arlene, and cause a small tornado. Garfield and Arlene are flung to the ceiling and the two dance in the ceiling, but Ramón grabs Arlene and brings her back to the ground. Garfield tugs at Ramon's leg, and it falls off. Garfield continues to pull Ramon's body parts. Garfield manages to outdance Ramón who turns out to be Nermal in disguise (which might have something to do with Nermal not showing up lately and the mechanic parts). Garfield then apologizes to Arlene as he finishes the dance with her, stating she was right about the fact that "Some things are more important than winning." Arlene then replies "Who said we won't win?." As they finish the dance the judges declare them the winners, all giving them ten points. Nermal tells Odie he'll be Pierie (his new disguise) next year. Odie rejects it. Freddy then concludes the story, and closes the story book. He then flies home on the glider.
game that's based on the film was released in July 2008. It was developed by Black Lantern Studios and published by DSI Games in North America and Zoo Digital Publishing
in Europe.
The Animation Picture Company
The Animation Picture Company is an American animation producing studio company located in 13400 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, California, 91423 USA. It was founded in late 2006 by Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark A.Z...
and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strip Garfield, which he signs as Jim Davis. He has also worked on other strips: Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres and a strip about Mr...
as a sequel to Garfield Gets Real
Garfield Gets Real
Garfield Gets Real is a 1999 CGI movie starring Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment and The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the fall of 1996...
in 1999. The DVD was released in stores on August 5, 2008. It was followed by a television series The Garfield Show
The Garfield Show
The Garfield Show is a CGI animated television series that premiered in France on France 3 on December 22, 2008. English-language episodes started airing on Boomerang UK on May 5, 2009. It premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2009 at 3:00pm...
, with the same primary cast, beginning in December 2008, and a third direct to video film Garfield's Pet Force
Garfield's Pet Force (Film)
Garfield's Pet Force is a 2000 CGI film based on characters from the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield and loosely based on the Pet Force novel series. It is the sequel to Garfield Gets Real and Garfield's Fun Fest. It was released in #-D cinemas April 9, 2000 and shipped on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on...
in 2009.
Plot
The narrator reads a book about a frog named Freddy who lived in a pond of water. He was very funny, so animals assumed that the water of the pond he lived in was magic water which made him funny. So animals came to it and drank it and they became funny too. The narrator is revealed to be Garfield and he's reading the story to Odie. Jon calls them for breakfast. He cooks breakfast while doing a disco act and he tells Garfield and Odie that he's doing it for the "Fun Fest" (he says he's been doing it since 1978, the year the first Garfield script came out), a talent show which is held every year at the Comic Studios, and all the comic strip character participate in the competition. Odie shows that he's doing a mime, and Jon tells Garfield he should do a dance with Arlene, which she wanted to do for years but Garfield wanted to do something different. They drive to the Comic Studio, with Arlene and Nermal, who teases Garfield.The Comic Studio is all decorated for the "Fun Fest", and everybody is practicing for it. Then they get to work, but it's "Fun Fest" auditions instead. Garfield performs all the great scenes from all the great movies in 30 seconds with Arlene (James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
, "Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
" etc.). After the auditions, Arlene comes into the living room with Garfield, telling him that she really wants to do the tango dance this year. She gives Garfield his costume. But Billy Bear, Randy Rabbit, and Wally all laugh at it. Garfield rejects Arlene's idea, and gives her another idea, which Arlene finds not amusing. The a cat named Ramón comes in and tells Arlene that he wants to do the dance with her. Arlene starts to like him which makes Garfield jealous. Ramón is successful at the auditions.
During the night, Garfield reads the storybook. In the morning, Odie (in his mime costume) comes in and shows Garfield it's Fun Fest that night. Jon calls Garfield and Odie for breakfast. Odie finds an envelope in the storybook and tries to get Garfield to read it in the kitchen, the car, and the dining room at the Comic Studio. All three attempts fail (because Garfield thinks Odie is playing a game of "Mailman" and is trying to cheer Garfield up). Odie tries to get Garfield to read it in the living room of Comic Studios. This attempt is successful and Garfield opens the envelope. Garfield finds a map to the funny water in the envelope. He sets the map on the table in the living room and Garfield demonstrates his plan. He'll go to the funny water to drink it and get funny in time for "Fun Fest" in the evening. However, Garfield knows its fiction, and rejects his own idea. Garfield and Odie leave for the funny water, after he sees Arlene in Ramón's strip.
According to the map, Garfield and Odie must first go through the Mystical Forest. While in the forest, Garfield and Odie meets certain misfits, like Stan the Squirrel, who annoys Garfield with his curtains. He also meets Junior the bear, who shows Garfield he should go right at a fork in the road saying "To get to the magic pond tonight, follow your heart and you'll always be right" (He is called by his mother who tells him that he should go to dinner). Garfield thinks that they should go right. But Odie disagrees by showing Garfield that he thinks that since their hearts are on the left side of their bodies, then if they follow their hearts, they must go left. They follow Odie's idea and they go left. Garfield and Odie come across a river and try to cross it, but they find out that there are alligators in the river. Two birds tell the duo that they should do stupid things and get the alligators to laugh so they can cross the river. Garfield tries to act stupid, but the alligators don't laugh. Garfield gives up and Odie decides to help Garfield and does stupid things causing the alligators to laugh loudly. While the alligators laugh, Garfield and Odie manage to get across the river. Garfield goes to a pond, supposedly the funny water, and he drinks the water. Then they see a tall frog in a mumu on a leaf, and the leaf floats near Garfield and Odie, and the frog goes onto land. The frog tells Garfield and Odie the water is not the funny water and it really is sludge water from a nearby town. Garfield spits the water out in disgust.
The frog reveals himself to be Freddy Frog from the story and tells Garfield that the magic pond (where the funny water is) had been moved years ago. Freddy puts Garfield and Odie through a series of comical challenges and they succeed as Freddy teaches Garfield how to be funny. Garfield and Odie reach the funny water by climbing up a really high ladder to a floating island and Garfield drinks it as well as saving some in a bottle (Freddy also reaches the island by taking the elevator. Garfield gets mad at Freddie asking him why he didn't tell him that there was an elevator. Freddy answers saying "You didn't ask."). The two realize they won't make it back in time for Fun Fest so Freddy provides them with a hang glider, telling them that all landings end with a crash. Garfield and Odie push it and fall down a cliff and almost collapse. However, the glider flies back into the air. After a bumpy flight, Garfield and Odie crash into the building and sees his role as host was given to Ramón because he didn't show up.
Garfield is about to drink the funny water he saved earlier, when he realizes the bottle got smashed when he landed the glider. Garfield believes he is no longer funny and feels too depressed to perform, especially without Arlene, and goes to the back alley. Freddy appears before him and Garfield begs him for more funny water. Freddy then tells him that the Funny Water is just regular plain water and he doesn't need it. Garfield claims he felt funnier after he drank the water and Freddy tells him that's because he IS funny and that he'd only forgotten to follow his heart (like Junior Bear said).
Garfield puts on his Tango costume and confronts Ramón while he is dancing with Arlene. Ramón throws Garfield onto the ceiling, but Garfield ties a rope to himself and jumps down. Garfield and Ramón fight over Arlene, and cause a small tornado. Garfield and Arlene are flung to the ceiling and the two dance in the ceiling, but Ramón grabs Arlene and brings her back to the ground. Garfield tugs at Ramon's leg, and it falls off. Garfield continues to pull Ramon's body parts. Garfield manages to outdance Ramón who turns out to be Nermal in disguise (which might have something to do with Nermal not showing up lately and the mechanic parts). Garfield then apologizes to Arlene as he finishes the dance with her, stating she was right about the fact that "Some things are more important than winning." Arlene then replies "Who said we won't win?." As they finish the dance the judges declare them the winners, all giving them ten points. Nermal tells Odie he'll be Pierie (his new disguise) next year. Odie rejects it. Freddy then concludes the story, and closes the story book. He then flies home on the glider.
Cast
- Frank WelkerFrank WelkerFranklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
- Garfield / Additional Voices - Gregg BergerGregg BergerGreggory "Gregg" Berger is an American voice actor, who is known for his longtime role as Odie the dog from the Garfield franchise...
- Odie / Shecky - Jennifer DarlingJennifer DarlingJennifer Darling is an American actress and voice actress. While her body of work as a voiceover artist greatly eclipses that of her on-stage career, she is, perhaps, nevertheless known best to most people as Peggy Callahan, the secretary to Oscar Goldman in the television series The Six Million...
- Bonita Stegman / Betty/ Bonnie Bear - Greg EaglesGreg EaglesGreg Eagles is an American voice actor whose talents have been used for numerous TV shows and video games...
- Eli - Jason MarsdenJason MarsdenJason Christopher Marsden is an American screen and voice actor who has done numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series.-Early life:...
- Nermal / Ramón - Neil RossNeil RossTheodoric Neilson "Neil" Ross is an English voice actor and announcer, born in London, England and now resident and working in Los Angeles, in the United States. He has provided voices for in many American cartoons, particularly those based on Hasbro products and Marvel Comics, and numerous...
- Walter "Wally" Stegman / Charles - Stephen StantonStephen StantonStephen Stanton is an American voice actor, impressionist and visual effects artist. He is well known as an "audio double" or "voicematch" for actors: Alec Guiness, John Cusack, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Nicolas Cage, Robert Downey Jr., and Peter Cushing among many others...
- Randy Rabbit / Stanislavsky - Fred TatascioreFred TatascioreFrederick "Fred" Tatasciore is an American voice actor who portrays secondary characters as well as monstrous-looking types...
- Billy Bear / Junior Bear - Audrey WasilewskiAudrey WasilewskiAudrey Wasilewski is an American actress and voice actress.-Life and career:Wasilewski's first role came in the 1994 Japanese animated film Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko, where she was one of the additional voices dubbed in English...
- Arlene / Momma Bear / Zelda - Tim ConwayTim ConwayThomas Daniel "Tim" Conway is an American comedian and actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television. Conway is best known for his role as the inept second-in-command officer, Ensign Charles Parker, to Lt...
- Freddy Frog / Gate Guard / Marra Tor / Roger - Wally WingertWally WingertWallace E. "Wally" Wingert is an American actor and voice artist. He is originally from Des Moines, Iowa but he currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the current announcer for the second incarnation of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the current voice of Jon Arbuckle in...
- Jon Arbuckle - Jessica LowndesJessica LowndesJessica Lowndes is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Adrianna Tate-Duncan on TV series 90210.-Personal life:Jessica Suzanne Lowndes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
- Lois
Video game
A Nintendo DSNintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
game that's based on the film was released in July 2008. It was developed by Black Lantern Studios and published by DSI Games in North America and Zoo Digital Publishing
Zoo Digital Publishing
Zushi Games is a British computer game publisher. Based in Sheffield, UK, Zushi is the owner of the multi-million selling Premier Manager series...
in Europe.