Home on the Range
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Movie Reviews of Home on the Range
Movie Review: Home on the Range
Summary: 4 Stars
My children loved it. They love music and dance and this was perfect. They also love animals. My local library always has this DVD checked out.
Sandy
Movie Review: Home on the Range
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD arrived in good condition. The story line was cute, but I wouldn't suggest this DVD to any kids under 4 years old.Movie Review: Fun DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Kids think its very funny. Some annoying voices and crude parts that parents get sick of after viewing several times.Movie Review: GOOD, BUT DISNEY IS WAY BEHIND PIXAR AND DREAMWORKS.
Summary: 3 Stars
"Home On The Range" is supposed to be Disney's last picture that features traditional animation (2D), although I'm pretty sure that they are going to keep releasing straight-to-video sequels. The first animated film that Walt Disney Pictures released was "Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs", then the company released classics like "Pinocchio", "Dumbo", "Fantasia" and "The Jungle Book", which was the last movie that Mr. Walt Disney personally supervised.
After Mr Disney's death, the company released a string of minor movies, but in the early 1990s, Disney returned to good shape with movies like "The Little Mermaid", "The Lion King" and "Beauty And The Beast". After those movies, Disney once again started to loose some steam until a young company named "Pixar" release an animated masterpiece that changed the animation forever.
That movie was "Toy Story", and since that movie, Pixar has made Disney's biggest hits, like "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.", but Disney by itself hasn't made another classic like they used to do. And its final traditional release is going to be "Home On The Range". Well, it's painfully obvious that this movie isn't the ideal way to say goodbye to Disney's traditional animation.
"Home On The Range" is a good movie...but nothing else. It has some good jokes like those references to classic westerns like "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" or John Huston's westerns. There are some references to Disney's own classics like "Dumbo" or "Alice In Wonderland". But that's not good enough to close a historical cycle in the animation genre.
Hopefully, Disney is going to make some good CGI-based movies, but if they don't do it, at least we can see movies made by Pixar or DreamWorks. Anyway, "Home On The Range" is a good movie, specially for children, but if you are old enough to know what is great, then get the movies that I mentioned in the first three paragraphs.
Movie Review: It's Good, But Nowhere Near Disney's Best
Summary: 3 Stars
It took me quite awhile to watch "Home On The Range." I bought it for my daughter not long after it came out, and she has watched it a few times, but I never got around to viewing it. For some reason, it just lacked the appeal of other Disney fare. Well, last night my daughter and I sat down to look at this flick together. About thirty minutes into it, my daughter was called off to go to bed. I was also tired, but I was too caught up in this little Disney movie, so I stayed up late.
I really want to love "Home On The Range" because it has so much going for it. It has some great voices in it thanks to the lovely Jennifer Tilly, Dame Judi Dench, Randy Quaid, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. It had wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and performed by k.d. lang and Bonnie Raitt. There was a neat little storyline and some wild West adventure. The animation was refreshingly "biting"(if that's an accurate term).I really liked those parts of this film.
However, the parts I wasn't so impressed with are what keep me from giving this movie more than three stars. For all of the great voices in this film, the one voice that shrieked and grated me into insanity was that of Roseanne Barr. Her voice(and attitude, I might add)was annoying. She almost ruined this film with her name alone. The second thing that bugged me about this movie was that Menken's lovely songs were hampered by the voice of cowboy-wannabe, Tim McGraw. Why doesn't he just let his wife look pretty and cut some more pop albums? The guy has the emotion of a flounder in his voice.
If you can look beyond those two glaring atrocities in this film, you'll probably enjoy it. It feels more like a direct-to-video/DVD flick than a "major motion picture," but since it is storied to be the last hand-drawn animated feature from Walt's company, it will just have to suffice.
Recommended to families with young children and those who really, really, REALLY love western adventure/comedy.