Home on the Range (2004) Critic Reviews

A sweet, raucously funny, comic Western that corrects a glaring historical injustice by finally surveying the Old West through the eyes of cows rather than cowboys. Read the full review

It's only 76 minutes long, but although kids will like it, their parents will be sneaking looks at their watches.Read the full review

The visual effects are lovely to behold, and the songs by Bonnie Raitt, Tim McGraw and k.d. lang are fairly catchy.Read the full review

An engagingly rambunctious toon Western that likely will attract herds of family auds, if not multitudes of teens and tweeners, to megaplex corrals. Read the full review

Any shortfalls in Home on the Range a conventional but perfectly pleasant entertainment, have more to do with the ABC's of storytelling than with the D's of animation. Read the full review

The conservatively cheery artistic style suggests that the animation team has been reading Sundance merchandise catalogs. Read the full review

Even older kids will understand that Pixar does it so much better, not because of their computers but because of an intelligent attention to script and character and craft. If the people running Disney don't understand that much anymore, maybe they should turn out the lights and go home. Read the full review

This amiable, Western-themed animated effort from the Walt Disney Co. is a clear attempt to return to the more lighthearted cartoon style that was so prevalent before its onslaught of stately musical epics. Read the full review

Charming as it can be, though, Home on the Range is still an overextended cartoon.Read the full review