Aside the story copied from Lion King ,bad lines and attempts at jokes there something that perplexes me about this movie.You see: in this movie all the cows both males and females even newborn have udders and I feel that if they've done that they should have went all the way and also give udders to the dogs ,cats, chicken and pigs, it certainly wouldn't have made the movie any worst.Also some lines like the animals describing the farmer as a "good man, because he's vegan", chickens throwing darts at KFC poster give it away as a pro-vegan advertising material targeted at children: this would also explain why they didn't bother with making the actual movie good. Horrible but I would still recommend this to be watched as a study case

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.

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.

If a it's called a cow and it has udders IT IS A GIRL! I mean seriously, couldn't they have made the whole thing with the same plot and just not stuck udders on the otherwise clearly MALE cattle? At least when they make worker ants and bees male it's not as in your face stupid as sticking udders on a bull. I think I could have enjoyed the movie otherwise, there were some funny bits, the animation itself wasn't bad. Nothing original of course but a nice enough way to pass the time. The 'love interest' was entirely predictable apart from the uncomfortable fact that the guy wasn't a guy, just a really butch girl which I'm fairly sure wasn't what the makers intended. They were lucky the Christian Right didn't pick up on that.