Home on the Range
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Actor: Judi Dench, Randy QuaidBrand: Disney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
Published: 2004-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- Round up the family and get ready for a whole lotta fun with Disney's hilarious animated comedy HOME ON THE RANGE. It's a "total joy," raves Gene Shalit, The Today Show. When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion named Buck, and a colorful coral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes
Movie Reviews of Home on the Range
Movie Review: Great Music! Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so pleased that Disney finally steered away from the forgettable scores and uninspiring lyrics that we've been seeing since the 70s. I was surprised and pleased with the music in this film. My 4 year old daughter and I are having a great time trying to yodel like Alameda Slim; we crack up to the lyrics of the main title song, like: "If you're the type with a nervous bladder, YEE-HAW! Your saddle's gonna reek;" and I just adore singing that lovely "Little Patch of Heaven" song.
I was really hesitant to see this movie because it got some pretty shoddy reviews, but I gave in and rented it, then ended up buying it a day later. The movie has all kinds of little tidbits for adults, and lots of hilarious action for the kids. In the director commentary it was said that the reason the movie got the PG rating was that Maggie the cow says, of her udder: "Yeah, they're real... quit staring." The bad guy seems scary at first, but he's ends up being pretty non-threatening. There are plenty of head bangs and punches in the movies, but they've managed to keep it somewhat PC. The flavor of the violent 40s and 50s cartoons is there (yes, I'm one of those Bugs Bunny fans), but not so many things that could actually be acted out by children in real life (who could drop a cow onto someone?). The storyline is NOT the most amazing I've ever seen. There were no real suprises. Each little piece of the story is really great, though; cute and funny... like cartoon vignettes. I could've watched each chapter on the DVD in random order and still been really satisfied.
The additional features on the DVD are good. My daughter really likes the "yodel-mentary" and we all like the short film "Three Little Pigs." The introductions to the menu are pretty cute (I think there are 3 different introductions). The English subtitles are perfect, if you're into that kind of thing. We both like to watch this movie in French, too. The voices are dubbed wonderfully, and they've even translated the songs, and done them well! I'm fond of "making-of" documentaries, and while this one was a little hokey (why did they have to set the documentary at a dude ranch, and have movie makers sit around the campfire and try to remember the song lyrics?), I DO like that it contained a lot of real insight into how the movie evolved.
I think that this is the first Disney animated movie for a long time that is a real pleasure to watch over and over. I admit that a tiny bit of my admiration of this film is because of subject matter (we own a farm in the west ourselves). I know that a lot of people get upset because no new Disney movies are like the ones they grew up with. The movies that were in the theatres when I was a kid were mostly re-releases of the 60s... everyone knows those movies are supposed to be terrible... but I can't help it: I love Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood but can't stand Lion King. Your high expectations will never be met by new Disney movies; they'll never seem as wonderful and magical as the ones you saw as a kid. This movie is NOTHING like any other Disney movie. There's no point in trying to compare.
By the way, those chickens on Patch of Heaven shouldn't be laying white eggs; they really look like brown egg layers to me. (Sorry... I just couldn't resist that one little dig!)
Summary of Home on the Range
Round up the family and get ready for a whole lotta fun with Disney's hilarious animated comedy HOME ON THE RANGE. It's a "total joy," raves Gene Shalit, The Today Show. When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion named Buck, and a colorful coral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky high as this unlikely animal alliance risks their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys. Experience Disney's new moo-vie adventure with spectacular bonus features, stunning animation, and original songs performed by k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Tim McGraw, and The Beu Sisters and written by the Academy Award(R)-winning composer of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ALADDIN. It's "good fun for the whole family," declares Leonard Maltin.A spiky animation style and cowboy yodelling give Home on the Range some charisma. A trio of cows--Maggie (voiced by Roseanne, She-Devil), Mrs. Calloway (Judi Dench, Iris), and Grace (Jennifer Tilly, Bound)--hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid, Kingpin) in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions (Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire), the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day, to the accompaniment of tunes warbled by k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, and Tim McGraw. These songs--composed by Alan Menken (who wrote the music for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast)--are the movie's strongest element; the characters are largely trumped up to fit a number of weak jokes that reference current pop culture, thus rupturing the movie's Old West world. Still, it looks nifty. --Bret Fetzer
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