And for those of you not familiar with the special, check out some of these shots. . .
Life #3:
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The look of this reminds me a lot of the UPA studio, which was
so not used back in 1989. Very very cool. He has to help his master write a concerto so he literally won't lose his head!
Life #5:
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This short life is an homage to Krazy Kat, Ignatz, and Offissa Pup, some of the earliest cartoon stars form the teens and twenties.
Life #7
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Here he's an experimental lab animal. In this shot, the researcher is preparing to dissect him to "see if he's experienced any preliminary organ modification." Will he escape?
Life #8
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Garfield the newborn kitten has just been dropped off at the pet shop. Ahhhhhh, what the heck is
that thing?!!! He'll find out when he gets older!
Like I said before, I think it's really cool that they tried out several diffent visual styles and stories. And as cheap as the DVD is (I got it for under $10) I think it's really wirth a look.
Garfield's Babes and Bullets special is also on here, a fantasy of him being a detective solving a murder as sort of an homage to the old detective films of the 1940's. Filmed in balck and white, it 's very tongue-in-cheek and is rather mature for being Garfield. Of course, that's what makes it so cool:
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Garfield as Sam Spayed: "Now let's talk about you and me, baby."
Tanya: "It wouldn't work Sam, we're different."
Garfield: "That's the part I like."
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