Release: August 4, 2015
Film: Garfield
Tagline: I think now’s a good time to remind you to have your pet spayed or neutered.
This review provides examples of:
- Adaptation Decay: The Critic's final opinion on the movie. Even as he admits he actually likes the original comics, he feels that the film, in a sense, betrayed fans such as himself.
- The Cameo: Uncle Yo briefly appears to try to force the Critic into a Crossover with him, only to jam his toes.
- Felony Misdemeanor: "Happy Chapman" reaffirms his role as the Big Bad by claiming he hates lasagna, which so happened to be Garfield's Trademark Favorite Food. The silliness of the affirmation is compared by the Critic to Shredder spontaneously announcing that he hates pizza, the Turtles' favorite food.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Garfield is exiled to the front porch for the accidental destruction of the world's most accident-prone room, he protests that he's too lazy to do that. The Critic retorts that this comes from someone who can do dance sequences.
- Malicious Misnaming: Critic has a field day giving the CGI Garfield many different mocking names, including the Sunkist Tumor, Fanta Fungus, The Annoying Orange Tribble, Pumpkin Cancer, Wad of Lifeless Air, The Lorax's butt, Q*bert's nut sack, Charmander's pubic hair, Wilford Brimley's Urine-Stained Mustache, Tony the Tiger's Taint, Star Fox Ass Hair, Wet Oompa-Loompa Armpit, Tigger's Colon, Starfire's Moldy Cooch, and Heathcliff Vomit. That's justified, as he had 4 hard drives of jokes based on Garfield's appearance.
- Manipulative Editing: The review skips over a shot of Jon punching out the villain, which is especially noticeable because, a) Critic claims that Jon and Liz show up at the end to "pretty much contribute nothing", and b) the following clip does show said villain hitting the ground after being punched.
- Nominal Hero: In Critic's take on what a Coen-made Garfield would look like, Garfield is this or even a Villain Protagonist, as he kills his idealistic friend in cold blood, then looks straight into the camera, and says "that's right, you don't even know whether to root for me or not."
- Product Placement: The constant abuse of this trope throughout the film has the Critic rating it to Man of Steel-grade levels of blatancy.
- Special Edition Title: The Trailer Spoof (see below).
- Stealth Hi/Bye: The Coens pull this off in the time it takes NC to look back at the set... and while Tamara was right next to them!
- Trailer Spoof: Playing into the similar naming mistake that got Murray shanghaied into the movie, the review begins with a "trailer" for a humanized, Darker and Edgier version of Garfield if the Coen Brothers actually wrote it, starring the Critic as Garfield, Steve Buscemi (Doug) as Jon, Frances McDormand (Tamara) as Liz, Lee Weaver (Malcolm) as Nermal and John Turturro (Orlando) as Odie.
"This is amazing!" "Maybe I'll get a CAT scan. A 'CAT' scan!"
