“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 ...

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 ...

New York magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt files periodic musings for Grub Street, under the pseudonym the Gobbler. Haute Barnyard restaurants like the Tasting Room have been around for a while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animation exists, in part, to test the boundaries of reality. Since the dawn of Looney Tunes and the House of Mouse, people have gotten a kick out of talking animals that adopt and shine a light on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...