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.

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In this movie, Scooby and the gang from Mystery, Incorporated return for another bout with monsters, only this time they are real monsters. It seems that someone has decided to steal some of the costumes donated by the gang and run them through a machine (run by “randamonium”), which turns them into the real thing!

As with the first time around, it’s Matthew Lillard as Norville ‘Shaggy’ Rogers that steals the show. While it’s unlikely that Scooby Doo himself could have been done in any way other than with computer animation, and it demeans Lillard’s performance somewhat.

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