Andie MacDowell, Courteney Cox, Danny Glover

"Barnyard" is a lighthearted tale centering around Otis, a carefree party cow, who enjoys singing, dancing and playing tricks on humans. Unlike his father Ben, the respected patriarch of the farm, and...( read more  read more... ) Miles, the wise old mule, Otis is unconcerned about keeping the animals' humanlike talents a secret. But when suddenly put in the position of responsibility, the "udderly" irresponsible cow finds the courage to be a leader.

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PG, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Steve Oedekerk

Release Date: August 4, 2006

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DVD Release Date: December 12, 2006

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  • January 7, 2009
    The animators have absolutely no knowledge of bovine anatomy.
  • June 15, 2008
    Funny cartoon about a cow who likes to sing, dance and play tricks on humans.
  • June 7, 2008
    This story takes place in a country farm. Otis the bull (or gender confused cow) is the care free son of Ben, the leader of the Barnyard. Otis is young an energetic, he likes to have fun and has little ambitions. Ben hopes that one day Otis will take his place as the leader of th...( read more)e barn, but worries that he may not be capable of this. After Ben is killed by a pack of coyotes, the reluctant Otis now must take over the barn and lead the other animals and protect them should the evil coyotes return. But unfortunately, the film drags a little to get to its point. It is very padded with the party sequences in the barn, and the likes of the trailer's key "boy tipping" sequence. So when actual plot development takes place, it is offset by something silly that takes over and stays going for a lengthy amount of time. This movie was being shown for free at the theater here, so I took a couple of neightbor kids to see it, and during the movie another little boy maybe 7 or 8 started crying when the coyotes killed Ben. Alot of the people in the theater were scared including adults at some of the scenes.
  • May 11, 2008
    This was a fun idea and a very good movie. me and my daughter laughed the whole way through. Now of course the biggest problem with the movie is the fact that Otis a male COW. . yeah ..
  • March 11, 2008
    So many things wrong with this movie. It's a good thing I saw it on the movie channel before renting or buying it.
  • November 14, 2009
    Like the quote in it :
    "A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for the others.."

    and overall..
    It's... FUNNY..!!!
  • September 29, 2009
    not the best, but sure...
  • September 26, 2009
    He's got the sweet legs!!!
  • September 22, 2009
    funny animated movie, cliche but still amusing. It doesn't explain why there are male cows with udders though. ;)
  • September 9, 2009
    the most animated movie ever

Critic Reviews


August 4, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today

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. full review

August 4, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post

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. full review

August 4, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Barnyard is nothing so much as The Lion King chewed in a cud and digitally regurgitated. It's manic and maudlin, borderline creepy, occasionally inspired. full review

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Comments


  • zowieguy
    March 8, 2008
    Male cows?? I just dont get it. Not even funny.
  • Tomo619
    February 22, 2008
    It wasn't funny, it wasn't a good movie and it's stupid!
    It's more for kids. Kids are learning all the time and this teaches them that they're male and female cows! It would have made so much more sence for them to be bulls with the running and the fighting and stuff
  • sportboy
    February 22, 2008
    it was quite a short story but I loved the animals and the movie was quite nice well kids would love it and when I watched it last year I thought it was quite good well I enjoyed it anyway.
  • emmahalligan
    April 10, 2007
    i love barnyard!!!! best moive of the year!!!!for me!!!!
  • TheNeilyness
    March 25, 2007
    i am so dam annoyed with everybody complaining about the bulls have udders thing i mean for one ther are actual bulls in the movie with horns and theyve only got the male cows with udders in it for fun and so they can be called cows and not bulls and not udders and second its just a film for cryin out loud its not meant to be accurate because youre not going to find farm animals walking on twol legs talking stealing cars or playing golf so i think people should just watch the film and enjoy the film instead of making stupid comments without giving it a try
  • LucyLips08
    March 14, 2007
    it was quite good, but WHY did the bulls have UDDERS?! it confuses me alot but apart from that and not alot of entertainment it was OK....okay i admit it most of the film wasn't funny! BUT the mouse is sweet and funny hehe
  • naughtymartinibikini
    February 4, 2007
    this was one of the funniest movie i ever watched it is so good i could watch it a thousand time.
  • andrezaarm
    January 31, 2007
    muy bueno!
    jejeejejeje
  • lincolnjones10
    October 29, 2006
    i loved it! and im 14 years old and the thing about the udders im sick of seeing people complainin about it before u bad mouth that you shuold research it 1st the director said they thought it would be pretty funny to put udders on male cows so they did and if you watch the movie proply you see that there are proper macho bulls on it riding a mechanical human and they didnt have udders!
  • alhamo83
    October 8, 2006
    Wanna watch dis 1 as it is from the guy responsible for 'Kung Pow' and 'Ace Ventura'.

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