Chris Pratt's return to the animation genre is proving just as much of a streaming success as theatrical one as The Garfield Movie was poorly received by critics, but generally embraced by audiences, grossing over $257 million against its $60 million production budget.

Just shy of four months after making its theatrical debut, The Garfield Movie premiered on Netflix as part of the streamer's exclusive rights deal with Sony, and it's already proving to be a hit for both parties. At the time of writing, the movie is maintaining the No. 1 spot in the Top 10 movies in the U.S. today, this coming a full week after its premiere. While exact numbers have yet to be shared, the fact its ranking has remained so high for as long as it has is an encouraging sign of its chance at record-level numbers.

The Garfield Movie's No. 1 ranking puts it ahead of a wide variety of new and familiar titles in Netflix's library, including the similarly recent releases of the true crime drama, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, the acclaimed thriller Rebel Ridge and YA novel adaptation, Uglies. Interestingly, the animated reboot's No. 1 placement is ahead of another Pratt animated hit, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, in the No. 6 spot, as well as Trolls at No. 5, American Gangster at No. 7, The Boss Baby at No. 8, Evil Dead Rise at No. 9 and Trolls Band Together at No. 10.

What The Garfield Movie's Netflix Success Means For The Film

Another Animated Hit For Chris Pratt

Although Pratt is best-known for his live action roles, like Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation and Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, he has also had a lot of success starring in animated films. His other animated roles include Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie and Barley Lightfoot in Onward. Last year, he voiced the legendary video game character Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which went on to become the second highest-grossing movie of 2023, even in spite of its mixed reviews.

The success of the film also shows that audiences are still interested in seeing Garfield onscreen, more than 40 years after he was first introduced in the comic strip. Outside of the films and comic strip, the character also starred in the Garfield and Friends television series (voiced by Lorenzo Music), which ran from 1988-1994. The years since have seen a variety of TV adaptations produced, including The Garfield Show, which is also available to stream on Netflix and saw legendary voice actor Frank Welker star in the titular role.

Our Take On The Garfield Movie's Success On Netflix

The Film's Success Could Lead To More Garfield Adaptions

With The Garfield Movie having such success on Netflix, it could lead to having more onscreen adventures of the cat that hates Mondays. Garfield's fellow comic strip stars, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, have recently found new life on Apple TV+, as the streaming service is not only the home of the classic Peanuts holiday specials, but also has new specials, and the television series Snoopy in Space and The Snoopy Show. Although there are currently no definitive future onscreen plans for the character, the success of the film shows that audiences are as hungry to see more Garfield as he is for lasagna.