Dressed as something original, “Barnyard” struggles to be moresurprising than a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Things in thiscomputer-generated animation just aren’t cooking enough. Certainly there are ...

“Barnyard” comes to us under the Nickelodeon Movies banner, with all the lippy attitude a film derived from the squalling, kidcentric TV network implies. Nonetheless it’s a better-than-average ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Barnyard has male cows that squirt milk. It's actually a big part of the game, and you'll see them do it a ton. Now that this odd tidbit of info is out ...

He works in mysterious ways.

I understand that realism is not the main goal in an animated movie about anthropomorphized farm animals, but, seriously, what’s with the male cows in “Barnyard”? Did the bovine gender confusion at ...

Directed by Steve Oedekerk. With the voices of Kevin James Courtney Cox Danny Glover Sam Elliott. Rated PG for some mild peril and rude humor. Running time 83 minutes. They're all essentially ...

They're all essentially interchangeable by now, you know ? these animated movies with talking animals. Or insects. Or cars. It's hard enough for adults to tell the difference between them, but for the ...

Kids 8 and older may laugh now and again at this ill-conceived animated comic fable about barnyard animals who party like frat boys when the farmer isn't looking, but it surely doesn't earn the laughs ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bloom is finally off the digital rose of that newish art form, computer animation. “Doogal,” “The Wild,” “The Ant Bully,” “Ice Age 2,” “Cars” – most of ...

George Orwell should get a percentage of Barnyard, an udderly uninspiring addition to this year's animated moo-vie herd set on an Animal Farm markedly similar to the one in his classic satire. There ...