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The box office performance of The Garfield Movie marks an overcoming of the challenges. Though financially successful, The Garfield Movie's reviews place it as a huge critical flop. With 113 reviews, The Garfield Movie has a 37% Rotten Tomatoes score right now. Though audiences have given Pratt's Garfield voice all the flack, its audience score is substantially higher—an 81%.
Garfield showed up second at the box office on Memorial Day opening weekend. It almost lost to the fresh post-apocalyptic thriller from creative director George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Just just surpassing Garfield's $31.1 million, Furiosa pulled in $32 million during the holiday weekend. At $60 million (against Furiosa's stated $168 million budget), the Pratt-starring cartoon feature does, however, have a far less budget than the R-rated drama. This makes The Garfield Movie almost certain to turn a profit and has already recovered its expenditure.
The Garfield Movie has gone over a major box office record. Though just released to theatres, The Garfield Movie has been under debate for many months over Chris Pratt's character voice as the titular lasagna-loving cat. Though they had distinct roles, Pratt's voice was remarkably similar to his Mario voice in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Eventually released to North American theaters this past weekend, on May 24, and worldwide somewhat before that, the Garfield Movie has arrived.
The Garfield Movie has now passed a significant box office mark per Collider. This success shows up as The Garfield Movie's current box office earnings of $100 million globally. Comprising this total—a domestic box office of $34 million over the first five days of its debut and foreign sales of $66 million—the overall comes to $100 million.
Drawing on Jim Davis's comic strip, Garfield is a fresh interpretation of the lasagna-loving cat and his companions using a completely computer-animated technique. With the movie focusing on Chris Pratt's early years and fresh mishaps for his family, friends, and him, Pratt voices the title cat.
Though there were early controversies about the movie, it is clear that audiences have enough of curiosity to ensure a box office success. This new movie is much awaited by fans, hence it will be interesting to find out whether this will turn into a cult classic and family favorite.
Although they were released a few months apart, the most fascinating statistic to contrast will be how The Garfield Movie turns up against Kung Fu Panda 4. Situated as the top-grossing animated feature of 2024 thus far, the Dreamworks sequel film debuted in March and has raked in $539.4 million globally. Though summer releases Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2 could challenge that status, Garfield just may have the first chance at dethroning Po as it keeps a good theatrical run.
The Garfield Movie has generated a lot of buzz about its premiere and box office performance. With a solid marketing plan and a well-liked franchise, it is definitely going to be successful. The future of the movie seems to be really promising.