Well, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that this movie gave a whole new definition to the word "bulldyke"!
I saw this movie on a plane to the Middle East. I got off the plane and at the airport saw signs reading "MALE TOILETS" and "FEMALE TOILETS". So, "Barnyard" is in good company. But honestly, I was waiting for the female roosters and male hens and adult calves to have their say in this movie!
Making cows male in voice only and retaining mammary glands (they actually looked like bears with several genitalia sticking out of their stomach; it took me a minute or two to figure out what kind of animal it was) is like saying Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence and thinking it's funny. It's just plain dumb! If the producers actually thought making male cows would be funny, like they apparently say, then they should have made a point of it instead of ignoring it. Bessie should have said something like "Ah ain't NEVAH seen a man with uddahs like that, sista! And what happened to them ho'ns?"
I must hand it to them though for at least not having Ben or Otis actually "father" their "sons" (Ben found the orphaned Otis, and Otis' girlfriend bore another multigenital bear cub through another...what, I wonder? "male" cow?). How modern, of course, that there are no functional families in the movie! I'm all for gay marriage, but I think this movie is way ahead of its time in that sense?? Not to mention an insult to basic intelligence.
On another level, I also found the franticness of the whole thing (parties, whatever) irritating. It's as if the entire cast was high on drugs most of the time. I did get a kick out of the mannequin arms, though (that's where the second star comes in). And the line about having a "human party" to celebrate "our humanness". Actually, for a movie about barnyard animals, the humans had the best lines! OK, make that THREE stars.
I saw this movie on a plane to the Middle East. I got off the plane and at the airport saw signs reading "MALE TOILETS" and "FEMALE TOILETS". So, "Barnyard" is in good company. But honestly, I was waiting for the female roosters and male hens and adult calves to have their say in this movie!
Making cows male in voice only and retaining mammary glands (they actually looked like bears with several genitalia sticking out of their stomach; it took me a minute or two to figure out what kind of animal it was) is like saying Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence and thinking it's funny. It's just plain dumb! If the producers actually thought making male cows would be funny, like they apparently say, then they should have made a point of it instead of ignoring it. Bessie should have said something like "Ah ain't NEVAH seen a man with uddahs like that, sista! And what happened to them ho'ns?"
I must hand it to them though for at least not having Ben or Otis actually "father" their "sons" (Ben found the orphaned Otis, and Otis' girlfriend bore another multigenital bear cub through another...what, I wonder? "male" cow?). How modern, of course, that there are no functional families in the movie! I'm all for gay marriage, but I think this movie is way ahead of its time in that sense?? Not to mention an insult to basic intelligence.
On another level, I also found the franticness of the whole thing (parties, whatever) irritating. It's as if the entire cast was high on drugs most of the time. I did get a kick out of the mannequin arms, though (that's where the second star comes in). And the line about having a "human party" to celebrate "our humanness". Actually, for a movie about barnyard animals, the humans had the best lines! OK, make that THREE stars.