Synopsis
Garfield plays multiple roles including ancient Egyptian royalty, a fairyland kitten, a movie 'stunt cat" and more!
1988 Directed by Phil Roman, Doug Frankel …
Garfield plays multiple roles including ancient Egyptian royalty, a fairyland kitten, a movie 'stunt cat" and more!
Did they seriously need to cause me physical pain in that "Diana's Piano" segment? I haven't cried like that in a long time. Worth a watch just for that part alone.
Oh so they cut the one where Garfield loses his mind and kills an old woman to make room for this maudlin shit about a piano where he dies of old age? Gimme a break.
garfield becomes buster keaton, 2001 a space odyssey, a creepypasta, and others in his bizarre nightmare fugue state
I know it's weird. This is now the second Garfield TV special I've reviewed here. I promise it'll be the last.
But this one is definitely worth your time, because it's even weirder than my knack for reviewing such things.
The premise is clever: it treats the concept of cats' nine lives as if they are past lives. In other words: we see the different reincarnations of Garfield.
Allow me to go through one by one. Keep on reading, because it sure does get weird.
Life 1: Cave Cat
Prehistoric times with Garfield as a fat sabertooth and Odie as a dinosaur. Lots of clever, cute and enjoyable comedy here.
Life 2: King Cat
Ancient Egypt and of course Garfield…
I honestly don't know what to say about this. It was so weird in a good way. Like benchmark in cinema good. I feel like it should be like required viewing for anyone with interest in film, animation, or even just storytelling in general, if for no reason other than to show that anything is possible in this medium. And its Garfield. It blew me away with how experimental and deep it was-- or rather some of it was. I wouldn't recomend skipping any of it, but the first and last two lives certainly feel lackluster compared to the rest. I'm so glad I found it on YouTube (shhh) and finally watched it after it was recommended to me years ago.
There are so many Garfield specials out there that every person seems to have a different one that they watched most growing up. For me, that was Garfield: In the Rough. It's not that I thought that particular special was better than the others, but that was the one that my parents happened to videotape off of the broadcast, so it was there whenever I wanted to watch a cartoon. Of course the Halloween special was also a favorite. I had actually never even heard of this one before Scumbalina brought it up, and the description sounded fantastic.
In this outing, we travel through the history of Garfield's lives, starting from the time life first crawled out of the sea…
Before I get into tinfoil hat theory on how Garfield becomes the creator of the universe, I want to talk about his 6th life first.
Diana's Piano (or Garfield's 6th life) was unexpected. Who knew in between the goofy settings for all nine cat lives we'd find a simple heartfelt story that's nothing like Garfield at all. Not even fully animated, just still images of pure emotion. Easily my favorite life from the special.
It's a shame that they didn't faithfully adapt its source material comic. 6 out of 9 stories is an okay number I guess but imagine seeing his noir black and white detective life in full animation, it would've been amazing. I was really intrigued by 'Primal…
Watched this vidya whatsit 'cause Scumbalina said my cat, Uncle Jesse, looks like the snowball freak in the Diana's Piano segment. . . . you hate to see it.
Garfield owned slaves in a past life. He talks to God who is also a cat. Broad unfunny and facile Garfield laffs stretch across barely an hour of trippy animation that changes to suit each of his nine lives. Check this out if you're a Garf-head or want some siq fat cat background visuals while you're doing laundry or cleaning a litter box or whatever.
Garfield’s Nine Lives, Ranked by WAP Factor
#1 - King Cat (Ancient Egypt)
Dry though the desert may be, this pussy is SOPPING we—
Just kidding, but imagine if that was a review I wrote
garfield becomes buster keaton, 2001 a space odyssey, a creepypasta, and others in his bizarre nightmare fugue state
Did they seriously need to cause me physical pain in that "Diana's Piano" segment? I haven't cried like that in a long time. Worth a watch just for that part alone.
Oh god I’m crying.
Whatever you do, don’t watch Garfield: His 9 lives - Diana’s Piano (6th life)
A collection of vaguely Garfield-related short films. Some of which were incredibly fun and interesting, others of which were boring or kind of really disturbing.
Life 6 (despite not being Garfield related at all) was easily the best one and I would easily give it 4.5 stars on its own. I cried so hard it's genuinely so beautiful but why is it even in there?
Garfield Gets Reincarnated
Certainly the most....different...thing that Garfield has ever done. The concept is basically that Garfield dies and gets reborn over and over across the centuries. I’m pretty used to him doing nothing but lying on a table eating lasagna so kudos for going on a slightly different direction on this one. Some of the vignettes are pretty skippable, others are worth revisiting. The one with the piano is very sweet, and bonus points for getting a “Krazy Kat” reference in there. So there are good things in it... but I wouldn’t call it amazing. Really it’s just one of those very peculiar, bizarre little oddities in the Garfield library. I appreciate it exists if nothing else.
For the last week or so, I've been watching every Garfield special in chronological order and despite having previously seen only a few of them, this was the one I was looking forward to the most.
I grew up with the Garfield comics. Collected the Fat Cat 3-packs, the treasuries and a few incidentals. Went to the library to indulge in the book adaptation of the animated specials. In regards of the incidentals, the one that has stuck with me all these years is Garfield: His 9 Lives.
Unlike every other special that has been released so far, this was the first that was directly adapted from a book instead of the other way around from what I'm used to.…
Je donne 4 étoiles juste à cause du segment « Le piano de Diane ». <——- lien cliquable ici.
Je me souviens à quel point ça m’a touché et marqué dans mon enfance. Un segment magnifique de 5 minutes dans un étrange film de Garfield.
Et chaque fois que je me le retape, je sanglote.
Genre, live là.
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