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It's a better-than-average animated feature.
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70Even an advanced case of critter fatigue shouldn't stop you from rushing out to see this delightfully cheeky animated tale.
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70Zippy enough to delight youngsters and clever enough to engage their parents.
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70The CGI is excellent, with characters whose depth and solidity suggest Nick Park's clay animations.
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63It's a sweet and mildly funny movie that will entertain young audiences, but one aspect is utterly mystifying: The two main characters, father and son bovine creatures, have large, distracting udders.
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63All of Barnyard is odd. Oddly funny much of the way, oddly serious when it makes room for the early death of a beloved character or the hushed birth of another, oddly musical with its melange of hip-hop and reggae and hard rock and bluegrass.
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It feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from "The Lion King."
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58It's bright, colorful and udder-ly unmemorable.
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50While youngsters might enjoy the movie, more discerning tweens, teens and adults will not be as easily amused.
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50An often amusing but also an aimless and forgettable animated comedy that is noteworthy mostly for its random musical numbers and surprising amounts of violence.
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Will entertain the kids; not so much the grown-ups.
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42For the most part, it's uninspired, not much to look at and laugh-free.
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40Barnyard isn't a complete waste of time, it's just too familiar.
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40Like too many animated films aimed at children, Barnyard embraces stereotypes that generally no longer cut it in adult films, and for good reason.
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38A bizarrely off-key animated comedy.
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If you want to punish your kids, send them to bed without dinner. If you want to disturb, frighten and depress them while making sure they fail biology, take them to the animated feature Barnyard.
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38Moooove along, there's nothing to see here!
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38Speaking as both a parent and a critic, I do believe I'd rather drive rusty railroad spikes through my eyes than have to sit through one more computer generated family film about talking animals. The bad news for Hollywood is that after seeing Barnyard my kids feel the same way.
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38The disturbing thing in this preposterous piece of family fluff from writer-director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the Oscar-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) is the sight of bulls with udders.
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It's a fine message, but, in the case of the film itself, a little originality would have gone even further.
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30It's always dispiriting to see children's movies succumb to desperate pandering to the coolness imperative, especially since, given the marketing muscle they tend to have behind them, the bigger trick seems to be in getting people not to see them.
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25Loud, sophomoric and stunningly crude.
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25One of the film's few virtues is Danny Glover as the voice of Miles the mule.
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25It shouldn't be surprising that writer-director Steve Oedekerk, the man responsible for "Kung Pow! Enter The Fist" and the second "Ace Ventura" movie, considers single-celled organisms as he shoots for the lowest common denominator.
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Positive: 7 out of 13
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Negative: 5 out of 13
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not my favorite CGI movie, but hey. at least its just decent.
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DeAnnaM.7Funny movie. Better than I thought it would be. Didn't find it offensive for anyone. Good family movie