3.0
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Zippy enough to delight youngsters and clever enough to engage their parents.
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It's a sweet and mildly funny movie that will entertain young audiences, but one aspect is utterly mystifying: The two main characters, father and son bovine creatures, have large, distracting udders.
It feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from "The Lion King."
While youngsters might enjoy the movie, more discerning tweens, teens and adults will not be as easily amused.
Like too many animated films aimed at children, Barnyard embraces stereotypes that generally no longer cut it in adult films, and for good reason.
It's always dispiriting to see children's movies succumb to desperate pandering to the coolness imperative, especially since, given the marketing muscle they tend to have behind them, the bigger trick seems to be in getting people not to see them.
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… the 147th animated talking-animal movie …
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