Barnyard
Barnyard was a perfectly serviceable kid’s movie - made by Steve Oedekerk of “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist”, with about the same lack of subtlety and nuance, and the same sense that Oedekerk finds the material much funnier than you do. The story’s straightforward enough - cow (Otis, voiced by Kevin James) loses Dad to coyotes, cow needs to step up to prove his leadership. It’s Lion King lite, if you will. But it tries to hard to be cool, runs through animated movie cliches (a donkey as a sidekick? Does Shrek know about this?), and frankly, it’s bizarre that the lead is a male cow. Such udder disregard for biology.
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