Animated children's films are all about little kids' faith in magic and mystery, and everyone else's willingness to suspend disbelief. Cars fall in love. Toys come to life. Handsome princes transform ...

KIDS CINEMA 101: How to test if a kids movie is bad or good? ANSWER: The kids movie is bad if there is any lull whatsoever and will cause children to A) Whine and complain to go potty, B) Dance and ...

Aside from being tie-ins to three of the seemingly endless supply of bigscreen computer-animated family films hitting the bigscreen, "The Ant Bully," "Barnyard" and "Monster House" couldn't be more ...

I’ll come clean: I’m a sucker for talking-animal movies. In fact, even a nonhuman talking object will do. But while I used to think anthropomorphization of any sort would give me my fix—whether a ...

Kids 8 and older may laugh now and again at this ill-conceived animated comic fable about barnyard animals who party like frat boys when the farmer isn't looking, but it surely doesn't earn the laughs ...

On December 12, 2006, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Barnyard: The Original Party Animals on DVD. The movie revolves around a bunch of crazy, kooky farm animals that play tricks on the ...