Barnyard

Barnyard is a 2006 computer-animated comedy film produced by O Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies.

Plot
Like the other animals in the barn, Otis the Bull (Kevin James) likes to sing and play while the farmer is away. However, the carefree bovine must soon find the courage to be a leader when, unexpectedly, he finds himself in a position of great responsibility.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The CGI animation, while decent, is pretty mediocre for 2006 standards and it clearly hasn't aged well.
 * 2) The concept of male cows having udders is weird. In real life, male cows don't have udders and aren't called cows, they're called bulls.
 * 3) Many of the characters can seem unlikeable.
 * 4) * Otis is unlikeable as he only cares about going to the barn party and not protecting the farm. In fact this is what leads to his father's death in the first place.
 * 5) * Snotty Boy and his friends are unlikable for tipping cows over.
 * 6) * Mr. and Mrs. Beaty literally serve no purpose in the film other than filler.
 * 7) The scene where Ben (Otis' father) gets killed by coyotes is very horrifying and disturbing for a kids movie.
 * 8) The running gag of Freddy wanting to eat Peck the Rooster can get boring and annoying at times.
 * 9) It feels uncreative with what it does.
 * 10) Plot hole: How did the farmer not get severely injured when he got kicked in the head by a donkey? In real life, a person would be very injured or killed from something like this. Although this is understandable seeing that this is a kids movie.
 * 11) There are plenty of gross scenes like when Snotty Boy shakes his bottom and shows a little bit of it.
 * 12) A lot of the jokes in the film fall flat, such as the cow and a half joke and when Otis shakes his utter and exclaims "Milk me!" as a counterpart of "Fuck me!".
 * 13) There is some product placement for stuff like KFC, Coca-Cola, and Jolly Ranchers.
 * 14) Overall, it started the Barnyard franchise on a sour note.

Good Qualities

 * 1) It got a TV show called Back at the Barnyard, and it was a major improvement over this movie.
 * 2) The story is very heartwarming. Even emotional scenes such as Ben's death and Otis finding his corpse shortly afterwards succeed in being emotional and tragic, pulling no punches on just what a tragic this is, instead allowing the movie to mourn his loss and show how disturbing this is for the future and for Otis himself, shaping the rest of the movie going forward.
 * 3) * In fact, what's more, is that they had a decent flashback of young Otis going fishing with Ben (Otis' father), which is also enough to make the viewers burst into tears.
 * 4) The scene with the farm animals having a party every night was easily the best scene in the movie.
 * 5) * Also, this film is practically meme gold, with some other scenes like the pizza delivery, "there's a cow farm, you're gonna find cows outside".
 * 6) Some tolerable characters, such as Ben (Otis' father, who sadly died in the movie), Daisy, Bessy, Miles, Etta, Pig, Freddy, Peck, Maddy and Farmer Buyer. Also, Otis does redeem himself at the end of the film, as he and the other animals save the chicks and defeat the coyotes, and grows to be a better person, becoming a new leader of the farm animals.
 * 7) Dag manages to be an ultimately terrifying villain.
 * 8) Decent voice acting.
 * 9) Great soundtrack, including "Mud", "Hittin' the Hay" and Sam Elliot's cover of "I Won't Back Down".
 * 10) Some funny moments here and there. For example, the scene where Otis and his friends try to find a way to hide the farmer and make an event that didn't happen to prevent him from going to the farmhouse.
 * 11) * The funniest scene of the film, where the rooster and the hens play darts, as they throwing darts at the KFC mascot.
 * 12) *The Part when Otis secretly shakes his butt at the mailman.
 * 13) Some good action in the film, outside of the scene when Ben (Otis' father) gets killed by coyotes (depending on your view).
 * 14) "A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."
 * 15) The CGI animation does look nice in some scenes.
 * 16) Some people may like this movie because of the memes that created on YouTube, as it became a cult following in later years.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an endorsement rating of 22% dependent on 97 surveys, and a normal rating of 4.40/10. The site's basic agreement peruses, "Unimaginative and unfunny, this tale of barnyard mischief borders on 'udder' creepiness and adds little to this summer's repertoire of animated films.". On Metacritic, it has a score of 42 out of 100, in view of 24 pundits, specifying "blended or normal surveys". Crowds surveyed by CinemaScore provided the film with a normal grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave the film 2 stars out of 5, saying that, "with Barnyard, another down to business 'top pick cast' wreck produced by the computerized new companies employed to take a portion of Pixar's money, the year that PC created liveliness 'goes a little crazy' becomes official. Socially sensitive, physically wrong and terrible to check out, the main thing that saves Barnyard is an author (and chief) Steve Oedekerk's present for gags and nearly restless humor." Kyle Smith of the New York Postgave the film a score of 1.5/4, saying that "to rebuff your children, send them to bed without supper. To upset, alarm and push down them while ensuring they bomb science, take them to the energized include Barnyard." Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly censured the film's plot, giving it a C+ score and said that "it seems like Barnyard swipes a lot of its plot from The Lion King."

On the positive side, J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader delighted in Barnyard, saying that "it's way more amusing than large numbers of the R-evaluated comedies I've seen recently, however Oedekerk appears to have disregarded the essayist's declaration to know your subject—the majority of his cows are male. The CGI is great, with characters whose profundity and strength propose Nick Park's earth livelinesss. The giggles die down close to the end as the imperative moral kicks in, however this is as yet that uncommon children's film I'd prescribe to guardians and non-guardians the same." Claudia Puig of USA Today provided the film with a score of 2.5/4, referring to it as "a sweet and somewhat interesting film that will engage youthful crowds, yet one angle is absolutely confusing: The two primary characters, father and child cow-like animals, have huge, diverting udders."

Box office
Barnyard grossed $72.6 million domestically and $43.9 million internationally for a worldwide total of $116.5 million against its production budget of $51 million.

The film opened at #2 at the box office on its opening weekend behind Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, earning $16 million at the domestic box office from 3,311 theaters. On the film's second weekend, it dropped 38.7%, grossing $9.7 million and finishing in 4th place, behind Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Up, and World Trade Center. By its closing on November 2, 2006, it grossed almost $73 million in its domestic theatrical release.

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