Bill Murray and Billy Connolly make this Garfield tale fairly amusing.

When my son picked out Garfield A Tail of Two Kitties for our Sunday night movie, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. He loved the first Garfield movie, so wanted to see this sequel. I had managed to avoid the first Garfield movie, and wasn't looking forward to seeing this one.

I found myself laughing and enjoying this comic romp as American Humor in the form of Bill Murray as Garfield versed British Humor in the form of Billy Connolly as Dargis, the want to be heir of an English estate. Connolly is a dead ringer in appearance and mannerisms to John Cleese of Monty Python.

The plot is fairly simple, Garfield's owner Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) wants to propose to his girlfriend Liz (Jennifer Love Hewitt), but she is off to London to give a speech. Only in the movies would a loser like Jon have a girlfriend that looks like Jennifer Love Hewitt. (There are a couple things I like about Hewitt, however, her acting abilities aren't one of them.) Jon follows Liz to London to propose, and Garfield and Odie stow away in Jon's luggage to join him. In the meantime, Prince (voices by Tim Curry, doing his oh so upper class British accent), a very pampered cat resides on a large English countryside estate who has just inherited said estate. Next in line is Dargis, but only after the cat lives out his life. Of course Dargis does what he can to shorten the life of Prince and promptly dispatches the cat who winds up in downtown London.

Meanwhile Odie and Garfield are also in London siteseeing, and Smithee, Prince's butler spots Garfield mistaking him for Prince.

Soon Garfield and Prince in a mix up end up in each others lives. The animals that live on the estate welcome Garfield, even though they know he isn't Prince, because he will prevent Dargis from taking over the estate and getting rid of all the animals. With Prince gone, Dargis was ready to take over the estate.

Scenes in which the two exchange lives are actually rather amusing as Garfield adjusts easily to the rich life, and Prince discovers that he enjoys lasagna. Some jokes will go over the kids heads, such as when Garfield says he wants to eat Odie's liver with some fava beans with a fine kianti in his best Anthony Hopkins impression.

Bill Murray's deadpan delivery is perfectly suited for Garfield. I found myself laughing a lot more than I thought I would at the escapes of a fat cat. Helping Garfield adjust to life at the estate is a large English Bulldog, Winston (voiced by Bob Hoskins doing his best cockney accent). Also of note is Sharon Osbourne doing the voice of Christophe, one of the animals living on the estate. (I'll leave it to you to figure out which one!).

Connelly's deadpan British accent really reminded me so much of John Cleese, as he portrayed the film's bad guy. He just wanted the large cat gone so that he could inherit the estate and turn it into condominiums. He was funny in that British sort of way. British v. American humor was a theme of many jokes in the film. Jon asks about his cat Garfield and Prince's butler, Smithee (Ian Abercrombie) remarks that Garfield must be Prince's doppleganger. Jon responds that he didn't think so, but that the two cats look alike! Garfield himself is also upset when he is picked up by a Rolls Royce that drives on the "wrong side" of the road when it brings him back to Prince's estate.

Another thing I enjoyed about this film was that it was actually shot in London. Most of this movie is live action, and it is only the cats that are obviously CGI. I recognized several London landmarks from Buckingham Palace, the Tower Bridge, The London Eye and Trafalgar Square. The shots of Garfield at his look alikes home were also filmed in a real English estate that looked quite grand.

Since this is a children's movie, rest assured that there is a fart joke, I believe that they are a requirement in kid's films.

Overall, I don't think this was a great film, but it was a decent kids film, and I enjoyed it overall. I'd give it 3 and a half stars.