Do note that this is not a regular course, this is more of a workshop. Here's how it works: The instructor, Mr. P R Sundar, will be available live on a ZOOM video call, where he'll be giving a short introduction. There are 10 chapters in total. 5 chapters for Saturday, and 5 chapters for Sunday. After finishing each chapter, you need to come back to the ZOOM Videocall for a Q&A session, any doubts you have regarding the chapter you just watched, feel free to ask. The Q&A session will go on for 30-45 minutes, where Mr. P R Sundar will be giving additional tips and guidance.
More importantly, the 2006 film understood something that the new one forgets: Garfield is not a hero. He’s a gluttonous, lazy, selfish housecat who occasionally does the right thing when it inconveniences him least. A Tale of Two Kitties never tries to make him noble. He saves the castle because he wants to keep eating the salmon. That’s the purest Garfield. Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties sits in an awkward historical pocket—too late for the early 2000s live-action boom, too early for the nostalgia-driven revival. It was never a hit (a worldwide gross of $143 million on a $60 million budget, but poor critical reception). It was never a disaster. It simply existed, passed around as XviD files on external hard drives, watched on portable DVD players, forgotten until someone typed “Garfield 2” into a search bar.
Lord Dargis, meanwhile, is the scheming British developer—polite, cunning, and ultimately foiled by an American cat’s brute-force chaos. In a post-9/11, pre-2008 financial crisis world, this felt like lighthearted transatlantic ribbing. Today, it reads as a strange comfort fantasy: the American idiot savant wins again. Bill Murray’s voice work in both Garfield films is a study in polite disengagement. Unlike other voice actors who disappear into their roles, Murray sounds like Bill Murray reading Garfield lines while waiting for a better script. In A Tale of Two Kitties , this detachment becomes the joke. When Garfield says, “I’m not fat, I’m festively plump,” you hear Murray’s smirk. Garfield-A Tale Of Two Kitties -2006-- DVDR-xvi...
Yet that roughness gives it charm. The real animals (dogs, birds, the occasional rodent) are clearly reacting to nothing. The human actors, including Jennifer Love Hewitt as Jon Arbuckle’s love interest, perform against orange tennis balls on sticks. There’s a desperate, almost admirable craft to it—the same B-movie energy that makes The Cat in the Hat (2003) a cult object. In 2024, Garfield returned to theaters with The Garfield Movie (2024), a slick, CGI-heavy adventure voiced by Chris Pratt. That film is polished, safe, and algorithm-friendly. A Tale of Two Kitties is none of those things. It’s weird, slightly too long (78 minutes feels like 90), and tonally uneven. But it’s also the last Garfield film to feel handmade—flaws and all. More importantly, the 2006 film understood something that
Released just two years after the modest success of Garfield: The Movie (2004), this second installment ships the lasagna-loving cynic from his suburban American couch to the grandiose halls of a British castle. On paper, it’s a simple Prince and the Pauper riff. In practice, it becomes an unintentional prophecy of how Garfield would evolve—from a cynical comic-strip fixture into a globally franchised, self-aware brand mascot. The “DVDR-xvi...” in your subject line is worth pausing over. For younger readers, XviD was the open-source codec of choice for DVD rips in the mid-2000s. A file labeled “Garfield.A.Tale.Of.Two.Kitties.2006.DVDRip.XviD” meant someone had ripped a retail DVD, compressed it to ~700MB, and shared it on torrent networks like The Pirate Bay or eMule. He saves the castle because he wants to
Long live the Prince. Long live the codec.
