Directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds, the film stars Chris Pratt as the voice of the titular character, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg.

In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, before being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure.

Garfield is an obese, sedentary, orange tabby cat who lives a pampered lifestyle with his beagle dog sidekick, Odie, and their owner, Jon Arbuckle.

Jinx, a deranged Persian cat whom Vic has a history with, arrives to exact revenge for leaving her behind during a milk heist at Lactose Farms before she was caught and imprisoned at the animal shelter.

She bargains to forgive Vic if he, Garfield, and Odie break into Lactose Farms to steal a large quantity of milk as compensation for her imprisonment while Roland and Nolan closely observe them, which they reluctantly agree to after she eats Barry.

During a heated argument, Vic forlornly reveals that he was actually obtaining food for Garfield but finds Jon taking care of him in an Italian restaurant he wandered off to.

Guided by Otto, the trio successfully infiltrates the farm, but Marge intercepts them at the loading dock and captures Garfield and Odie.

Garfield and Odie, along with Otto and an army of drones, arrive to rescue him, but they eventually fail, leaving the father-son cat duo at Jinx's mercy.

The reformed Roland and Nolan begin working as guard dogs for Marge, while Jinx ends up sentenced to community service as punishment for her crimes.

In May 2016, seven years after 20th Century Fox's license with Paws, Inc. expired, it was announced that Alcon Entertainment would develop a sixth Garfield film, with John Cohen and Steven P. Wegner producing, from a script by Mark Torgove and Paul A.

[23] Character rigs were designed with "multiple arms, legs and eyes" to allow for more exaggerated poses; "classic Garfield shapes" from the strips were also used as reference points.

"[23] In November 2023, it was reported that John Debney would compose the film's score, marking his third collaboration with Dindal following Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little (2005).

[25] Snoop Dogg collaborated with Keith Urban on an original song for the film titled "Let It Roll", which was released as a single on April 12, 2024.

[34] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on digital download on July 9, 2024,[35] and it was made available on DVD and Blu-ray on August 27.

[4][1] In the United States and Canada, The Garfield Movie was released alongside Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Sight, and was projected to gross around $30 million from 4,000 theaters in its four-day opening weekend.

The website's consensus reads: "The Garfield Movie rolls along at a zany enough clip to be diverting for kids, but this animated adventure doesn't much resemble Jim Davis' iconically grumpy creation.

[42] In a negative review, Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film's unfaithfulness to the comic, writing, "As anyone familiar with cartoonist Jim Davis' iconic feline character knows, Garfield doesn't like to move around very much.

And yet for some reason, the creators of the new animated film revolving around him think that what the audience really wants is to watch Garfield engage in Mission: Impossible-style, stunt-laden violent mayhem.

"[48] Brandon Yu of The New York Times criticized the quality of the animation, stating the film was "visually flat, with compositions that seem oddly half-populated and cheap",[49] while a review in The Guardian went as far as to call it a "foul feline origin tale littered with product placement".