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 ...

“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 ...

In more ways than one. For starters, the male cows come with udders. So much for truth in textbooks. Kids won’t be bothered. But anyone with a lick of awareness will get distracted each time an ...

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 ...

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 this year’s computerized crop has had the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...