Garfield Gets Real

According to Pat Fraily in an interview with Avi Melmman, he, Neil Ross, Jennifer Darling (Irma from the '87 TMNT) and Frank Welker did voice work for this movie.
 
Actually, the late Howard Morris voiced Wade. Frank Welker provided the voices of Booker, Sheldon, Bo and Orson's brother Gort.
 
Wally Wingert is an interesting choice for Jon. I think he can pull it off quite well. Still, he's no Thom Huge.

I can't picture Jason Marsden's voice coming out of Nermal's mouth.

Or hearing it emitting from Nermal's thoughts. Or however it's supposed to work.
 
It sounds to be Frank Welker to me. Basically his Nibbler voice with laboured breathing. Welker is so often doing crazy villains that hearing him do more laidback characters is rare.
 
Indeed it is Frank.

I saw the trailer and I gotta say, Frank does the excellent job I thought he would. While not quite Lorenzo Music (much as any Looney Tunes voice actor is not quite Mel Blanc), he does an excellent job of matching his vocal range and speach patterns. I've heard a lot of impersonations of a lot of different things over the years, and most of the good ones get the speach pattern down. That's what makes them so great. Didn't hear too much of Wally Wingert's Jon, though.

That said, i really want to see this. There is only one thing I'm not too happy about....

Garfield's lips move. He talks with his lips moving, which is inconsistant with the other animated forms of Garfield media, and just plain weird to see.
 
Ah, geeze why couldn't they just do this for the other movies, instead of the only CG character was Garfield, was their budget was that tight? I mean they call this one "Gets Real" but is a step down in realness compaired to the movie.

Anyway, this CG looks like crap, at some points is looks like it's got an outline, like a cell shaded video game, then it switches to squash and squish blobby animation expressions. Sigh, just go back to 2D animation if you're going to make a garfield cartoon, please?
 
Garfield sounds too much like Bo Sheep, which is funny because one US Acres had everyone but Bo was kidnapped and he had too act out the rest of the characters to keep the show going & he had to impersonate Garfield.
 
It's time for those whining about Garfield's new voice to kindly cease and desist. The sad truth is that Lorenzo Music is no longer with us. He's passed on. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't get Music to reprise his role short of performing black magic. Frank Welker is a talented voice actor who has proven himself over the past few decades to possess a wide vocal range. If anyone can pick up the slack, he's the man.
 
I super super agree. There is another voice actor who plays him. I don't have the clip, and I don't know if it's still up, and I don't know the policy for posting youtube clips of videogames.... but if you do a search for garfield video game, you might just find it. But there was apparently a PS2 Garfield game that had the other replacement voice. He also voiced Jon. he was good, and actually a tad closer than Lorenzo, but he just couldn't act too well. So I'm glad they're going with Frank.

Funny, I think I posted just before the cast list was released that Frank would make a good Garfield.

If anyone has G&F Volume one (or so, I don't know which set its on) and watch "Garfield goes Hawaian" listen for the Parrot doing the garfield impersonation.
 
Oh yeah, I had my doubts when I first heard the news, but actually hearing him gives me faith he'll do the role justice. Actually, if I had remembered he voiced Bo, I wouldn't have had any doubts in the first place.

Really, the only character I've ever really hated him as has been Scooby Doo. Don Messick/Scott Innes he is not...
 
You say this, but then you say:



Did it ever occur to you that this, the first original animated Garfield material since G&F, might be making him move his lips in order to promote the live-action movies, and/or to appeal to those who are only used to the live-action movies (i.e., who aren't familiar with the previous animated Garfield work)? That said, your two statements could be seen as contradictory. You don't approve of his lips moving (saying it's "plain weird to see"), yet you're willing to see this movie despite the fact that his lips move...like in the live-action movies?

Either way, this clearly means that Jim Davis (who is writing the movie) and the movie's producers are taking the easy way out by trying to appeal to those who are only familiar with the movies.

I'm serious. Does Davis even care anymore?...
 
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