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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Next year will mark the 10 year anniversary of Home on the Range.Last decade launched a row of human like talking animal movies and TV shows including Home on the Range and Father of the Pride.Home on the Range is a classic wild cart ride.Burly brawls, roller coaster rides and to a surprise a yodel song too.What's not to like?A cow lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere with her owner that does not want her farm to be sold.The cow and her animal friends goes out on a mission to save the farm.A big baddie wants to buy the farm.But the animals are stopping the villain after some wild chases.Recommended for kids that likes animal movies, also for parents that likes the old fashioned Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry chases.It's not any Leone masterpiece, but a colorful movie for a boring weekend.8/10

I'd been reading some stuff from/by others regarding this movie, I think maybe after it was released on VHS and DVD, if not while it was still played and shown in theaters. Originally having not seen the whole movie but just the preview when it was advertised and a clip of it on this site, I wasn't very interested in seeing this one and decided to wait for it to air on regular t.v. and catch it then. Well, a few years after it came out, it happened to be aired less than a month ago on the CW and I caught it then and there. Having finally seen it, I still don't really consider it among my favorite Disney traditionally animated films. I found it alright, but simultaneously, it's not one of the greatest. While I was watching it, I didn't quite get what most (if not some) people's beef (no pun towards the cattle intended) with it is, I probably read reviews about already before it was even brought to t.v. for the first time and might've forgotten about it. But I'm among those who see it as mediocre. There are others before it that have been done much better and Disney's Mulan is among those to it that I prefer.I don't think I can really add anything else that hasn't been covered by some of the other critics on here as to what went wrong and why it's a fail, but I'll try going over them too in my own words. First of all, one of the problems with this is a lack of sophistication, which I guess would or could be the best way to describe it. It's just not worldly enough to appeal to most of the teen and adult demographic and will only appeal to kids, if not even more so. It's not really as exciting for me as the aforementioned Mulan and in some spots, it's full of tedium, but not completely, as there have been some wacky and comical moments, such as with Buck the horse and when the cows were defeating the Willie brothers, Rico and Wesley. In those moments, some have mentioned that the movie is more reminiscent of something out of a Warner Bros./Looney Tunes cartoon than a Disney cartoon. Now somehow, that would've never come to my mind and I would've still missed it, even if it should be apparent since I'm well familiar enough with Warners material. But then again, maybe that's because I'd been learning more about the instances of animation companies/studios drawing (again, no pun intended) inspiration from, imitating or emulating others' typical/signature styles. I think it's horse-feathers that this had to be declared as the supposed last 2D cartoon flick by Disney and that the animation department shut it down, whether it was due to it being such a box office bomb, technological advances towards the now overrated 3D/CGI form, or both. Although fortunately and thankfully that would be redeemed by The Princess and the Frog half a decade later, which I still haven't seen in full, but plan to do so eventually. As much as I have always loved the medium, the current state of the cartoon industry has left me disenchanted and growing up, I had thought about entering the animation field to do the drawings, but then I reconsidered my aspirations due to not being patient enough for the long and grueling process, and it not being fast enough for me (as much as I love it). However, I'd be more interested in some certain, other aspects of it, such as writing and voice work. CGI has since overtaking the movie business, but thankfully, there's still plenty of traditional animation to be found on television. And I'm not the only one who feels this way about the animated film field being overtaken by 3D. Anyone who says that no one is interested in 2D anymore, others and I would beg to differ. Sorry, for going slightly off topic and going on a rant, but I had to vent and get everything out of my mind and off my chest. I can't take much more of this, I truly detest the state of the animated movie industry now. I never thought nor imagine things would ever come down to this, with one style replacing the other. Why can't both still co-exist? I don't like this one thing supplanting the other. I simply don't agree with this horse-feathers, nuts to that mess. If I were part of that aspect of the industry right now, I'd want to do both 2D and 3D, and would refuse to drop one for the other. Forget that mess, I probably would've had to quit if I couldn't do both. I want and would like to see variety again in that.Anyway, to get back on topic, next is the animation in this. Having been missing Disney's original, signature animation style for a while now and getting sick of the sharp-edged, angular look and flash (now I have a better understand of why some people dislike flash animation on t.v.), especially with most of the shows that aired on the Disney channel as of the last few years, I'm yearning for the old school style again. I presume that the plot/story-line isn't all that special. As for the music, I'm not really a big, straight-ahead country fan, hardly as it's not one of the top genres of music I follow that much, but I'm into the hybrid sub-genres (rockabilly, country-rock, cow-punk, etc.), but there are songs from other Disney features that I favor more. I think I've said enough about this and can't add anything else that hasn't already been stated by some of the other reviewers here and that's all I have to type now. I just wasn't feeling it all that much, it's not one of the better or the best, it's once again just mediocre.

Which made the animation look worse than it really is. I'm an animation student and when I watched it I was AMAZED. Fluid, organic, and full of life! So when I read in the reviews that, oh, "the animation sucked, it's like one of those Saturday morning cartoons", I'm like, oh my god were we watching the same movie? But the story SUCKED. Big time. The characters were 2 dimensional. Maggie was annoying. The farm animals were annoying. The plot is really unbelievably stupid... I mean, what the hell, the villain is an idiot with an idiotic motive with 3 idiot henchmen. The horse is annoying and stupid. The script is stupid. Everything that happened was so absurd I threw up a little in my mouth.It's sad that Disney decided that it was 2d animation's fault and not that of the story. Otherwise I'm sure they'd have made more masterpieces.The only reason why I watched to the end was because the animation and art was so amazing. Everything else was bad.

Pleasantly fast-moving and cartoonish Disney fodder with a funny basic premise and some nice gags thrown in for good measure. The old-fashioned animation is refreshingly low key.Unfortunately, there's no dramatic heft to the hectic and generic storyline and the characters aren't fleshed out at all. The musical interludes are average, too. Where's the emotional resonance we found in movies such as "Beauty and the Beast"?At least, the voice-work is excellent.A minor diversion, that's all. 5 out of 10 yodeling villains