This second (mostly) live-action movie starring the fat cat is (surprisingly) a bit better than the first. The animation of Garfield is actually quite a bit better than the first. That isn't the surprising part, though. What is entertaining is that the story moves along at a good clip, and without getting bogged down in specifics, it actually entertains throughout.
Prince the Twelfth is a noble cat, from a long line of cats who inhabit the castle, and finds that he has inherited the castle itself when his owner passes. Unfortunately the human who had expected to get the proceeds doesn't seem to care much for this development, and has decided to take matters into his own hands.
Unfortunately he doesn't realize that Prince's look-alike, Garfield, has taken this opportunity to slip into the bags of his owner, Jon, as Jon crosses the Atlantic to be with his love Liz, and this of course leads to the premise of the movie as the two cats swap places for a few days.
In the end, naturally, the bad guy gets his comeuppance and the animals are safe, and of course things work out for everyone else, as you would expect. But it's the ride that is fun, and rather than Garfield just lazing about, it's actually a great deal of fun throughout (though there is a good amount of the lazing variety as well).
Rated PG for what the MPAA calls "off color elements".
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