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Tom Long, Detroit News: While there are occasional funny bits, the question remains: Why should you go see this movie instead of its competitors? The answer is: You shouldn't. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Adults will get enough laughs to survive gags such as the chickens using a Col. Sanders dartboard but will likely lose patience waiting for the very predictable story and sentiments to slowly play themselves out. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Barnyard can at least hold its head up as a sharply scripted effort that, while assembled from familiar elements, does not feel focus-grouped and committeed to death. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: This is a darn cute movie and I think you'll find it funny. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It shouldn't be surprising that writer-director Steve Oedekerk, the man responsible for Kung Pow! Enter The Fist and the second Ace Ventura movie, considers single-celled organisms as he shoots for the lowest common denominator. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It's quick, it's painless, and there are enough laughs (and a few tears) throughout to keep everything moving along. Read more
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. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Surely there's no better way to introduce kids to the joys of knee-jerk stereotyping than to randomly distribute cliches among talking livestock. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Barnyard: The Original Party Animals actually has a clever concept (the animals walk upright and hang out like humans when the farmer isn't looking) and it handles such sensitive topics as birth and death with unexpected grace. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The laughs subside near the end as the requisite moral kicks in, but this is still that rare kids' movie I'd recommend to parents and nonparents alike. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: ... feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from The Lion King. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Poorly animated and barely scripted, this is the worst in an endless line of computer-animated movies starring animals this year. Read more
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: It looks great, and it's bright and colorful, fast and fun, with terrific voice talent... You may know from the opening where the story's heading, but it's a fun ride, and there's a lot of heart between the laughs. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The giddily indeterminate approach to bovine gender -- and charmingly sappy adoption subtext lend ample appeal to this decidedly non-Orwellian story of four legs good, two legs irrelevant. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Barnyard isn't genius, but it isn't cloying either. It's aggressively entertaining and, at times, unexpectedly touching. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie still just plods along, and there's nothing very new here. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Too mature for little kids and much too corny for older siblings and chaperones, Barnyard probably should have been put out to pasture long before it made it to the multiplex. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Politically correct, anatomically incorrect and ugly to look at, the only thing that saves Barnyard is writer (and director) Steve Oedekerk's gift for gags and almost-edgy humor. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: This often amusing but also aimless and forgettable animated comedy is noteworthy mostly for its random musical numbers and surprising amounts of violence. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: The basically good -- though not very inspired -- Barnyard just stirred up a lot of 'been there, done that' feelings in me as I watched this film. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Barnyard moves with a frenetic energy, especially in the numerous barn dance and chase scenes, that will probably keep family audiences moderately entertained. But it doesn't stand up to this summer's relative bonanza of animated family films. Moo. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Could qualify as a case study in just how quickly and thoroughly computer-animated studio releases have declined to a state of inspiration-depleted, assembly-line anthropomorphism. Read more
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. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: With a blithe disregard for anatomical correctness, Barnyard offers the spectacle of male cows equipped with prominent udders while spinning an uplifting coming-of-age yarn spiked with liberal doses of madcap lunacy. Read more
Jane Horwitz, Washington Post: 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 through good storytelling or beautiful animation. Read more