7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
Overview
Garfield and his pup pal Odie go trick-or-treating, only to wind up in a house haunted by ghostly pirates.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
Garfield and his pup pal Odie go trick-or-treating, only to wind up in a house haunted by ghostly pirates.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film focuses on the apolitical themes of Halloween adventure, friendship, and overcoming fear, without promoting any specific political ideology or engaging in partisan discourse.
This animated special features a traditional cast of animal and human characters, consistent with its production era, without explicit efforts toward diverse representation. The narrative focuses on a lighthearted Halloween adventure and does not include critical portrayals of traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Garfield's Halloween Adventure does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative is entirely focused on a classic Halloween story involving trick-or-treating, spooky encounters, and the antics of Garfield, Odie, and Jon, without any depiction of queer identity.
Garfield's Halloween Adventure is an animated children's special centered on a Halloween night adventure. The film does not include any identifiable transsexual characters or themes, nor does it touch upon gender identity in any capacity. Therefore, its net impact on the portrayal of transsexual characters and themes is N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
All primary characters in Garfield's Halloween Adventure, including Garfield, Jon, and Odie, maintain their established canonical genders from the comic strip. There are no instances of characters being portrayed as a different gender than their source material.
The film features established characters Garfield, Odie, and Jon Arbuckle. Garfield and Odie are animals, and Jon Arbuckle is consistently depicted as white, aligning with his portrayal in the original comic strip. No characters established as one race in prior canon are portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.1
7.3
Critic Ratings
N/A
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