Garfield as Himself (2004)

Lorenzo Music preceded Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield and he sure pegs the nearly comatose metabolic level of America's favorite feline (who will run to save his tush if he must). This disc has three episodes: Here Comes Garfield (after Odie, his canine sidekick, is taken to the pound, Garfield engineers a breakout for all incarcerated animals); Garfield on the Town (our cat gets lost in a tough neighborhood but right outside the building where his mother and weird relatives still live); and Garfield Gets a Life (Garfield's owner Jon joins a dating service for dweebs that is sincere and pathetic (humorously so). (For the record, a nerd is academically gifted but socially inept. A geek is technically gifted but socially inept. A dweeb is just socially inept.) Garfield even makes an in-joke about the Garfield-on-suction-cups doll people stick on car windows. Cute low-key family fun esp. for the kiddos. 3.5 stars. (11-18-08)