BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

joebjackson now I am aware this movie is for kids but seriously why watch this when you have toy story, beauty and the beast, spirited away, shrek and more why force your kids to watch this?!?! The plot is that there is a farm where animals come to life and party but Otis (played by Kevin James) has a father (voiced by *sigh* Sam Elliot from the Big Lebowski to this) who wants the farm to be normal. Later two girl cows (voiced by wanda sykes and COURTNEY COX?!?!)come and join them one of them being PREGNANT! also there these weasels who come to the farm and kill Otis's dad and kidnap all the chickens and its up to the cows and other farm animals to save them. thats the plot onto the animation which is terrible! The cgi is very poor with every character looking very ugly and look very clay like. The humor is not funny with only one funny joke (when Otis and the pregnant cow are by a fire) But the biggest offense is the voice acting with everyone sounding like they don't want to be in this movie and whats sad is some great talent is wasted with like I said Kevin James, Courtney Cox, Samee Elliot, Wanda Sykes but more like Danny Glover and even some of voice acting greats like John Dimaggio (voice of Bender), Cam Clarke (one of the best anime voice actors ever) and even ROB PAULSEN!?!?! (Animaniacs, the mask cartoon and more) what a waste of talent and money

OxMoron How can an entire film be written,cast,animated,edited,and released without one person mentioning something like: hey, aren't all cows girls,and bulls are male? The creators of this film must be from a large city and have never visited an actual farm or barnyard. I was so creeped out by the male cows with udders that I had a very hard time watching this animated trans-gender/transsexual animal movie. I gave it a 2 for the colorful animation. My four year old daughter didn't like it either. There is just something missing in the story and you don't feel any connection or sympathy for the characters.Overall this movie is very forgettable and not entertaining, just a load of cheap gimmicks, not many laughs either

digitalmachine1000 Really enjoyed this movie. The digital animation was on a par with anything out there. It would seem the animators and writers were given more of a free hand than one might expect (a lesson the control freaks who run this web site could learn from). A great story with a fine moral. Have I reached the required 10 lines yet? Don't want to upset IMDb's webmaster by violating his/her rules. I didn't rate this film a full 10 'cause nothing's perfect, least of all this website. I can't think of anything negative to say about the movie except another flick from the producers of this film would be great! Anyone who could find fault with "Barnyard..." just simply has their head in the wrong place. Why watch a film like this if you're mean, sarcastic and cynical to begin with? After seeing this movie, if you don't feel better and didn't learn something, then go watch Dr. Phil, maybe he can help ya.

Eric Fisk CGD Out of all the crap I've had to endure being a parent, by far the worst is the low-brow junk that's passed off as "children's entertainment." There are the movies that come into this house that are so bad and dreadful that I can't help but feel as if those who made the crap personally insulted my family.I only have 24 hours to my day, and my kids aren't going to be little forever, so what time I do have with them is precious. This movie feels like someone stole some of that precious time while at the same time trying to pick the scabs on my eyelids.No, really - it's that bad. Those who think that it isn't (or say so here, at least) are incredibly suspect. Those of you who have this thundering piece of garbage high marks are all on notice, I'm calling you out as studio shills.The worst part of this movie had to be by far the obvious knock-off of other people's work, much of this felt as if this was an over-seas rip-off Gary Larson's "Far Side," and I wouldn't doubt that some of his people are talking to Nickelodeon's people...Or, is it the bulls in this movie having no horns and have utters...The "male" bovines having udders was explained in the October 2006 issue of Nickelodeon's official magazine, "Nick Magazine". In the letters page, one reader asked about the anatomically-incorrect cows(bovine) and whether or not it was intentional or not, and the magazine explained that the movie's director "thought it would be funny for the male cows(bulls) to have udders".Know what? It's NOT funny. It's confusing, distracting and stupid. It's actually insulting to the audiences intelligence. Imagine George Lucas putting breast implants on Stormtroopers.There's so much about this movie to hate, whether it's a kids cartoon trying to be edgy for adults, the demonic and down-right frightening coyotes, or the plot formula stolen from other movies, or that this had a great cast with a script that should have recycled into toilet paper.