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.

Deserves to be hanging in the nearest meat locker.

This could be the film that snaps everyone's patience with Hollywood animations which have a Dell computer chip where their heart should be.

Barnyard can be best described as the Cow Tools of animated movies. What was supposed to be a simple cartoon starring a cow on a farm became something whose existence alone is so bizarre that it’s more fascinating than funny.