The Garfield Movie (2024) review

Ah yes, the Summer of 2024 Furiosa killer, an animated version of the over four decade-old comic strip by Jim Davis: "Italian food" craving feline Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt) lives comfortably with his owner Jon Arbuckle (Nicholas Hoult) and pooch pal Odie (Harvey Guillén) but gets abducted in the middle of the night by plump cat Jinx (Hannah Waddingham) and her henchmen, he reunites with his long-lost dad Vic (Samuel L. Jackson) and then is ordered to steal a milk truck from Lactose Farms.  I fully admit that I was seriously into the characters when I was a kid (I checked out a lot of the books from the library) and so I think this is fine for very young viewers, but as an adult I feel working out the "father and son issues" is a little much to tolerate and this adaptation casually "borrows" from popular Hollywood movies for its action set pieces (Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones, Top Gun, Bridge of Spies, etc.).  It seems to miss the main reasons for the orange feline's "appeal": he's a lazy hedonist who torments everyone, whines about Mondays, sleeps with his beloved stuffed bear Pooky and is averse to "adventure" so, with that in mind, I dare anyone to "edit" the movie and remove the lead character from it altogether just like Dan Walsh did for his webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield.