“Barnyard” comes to us under the Nickelodeon Movies banner, with all the lippy attitude a film derived from the squalling, kidcentric TV network implies. Nonetheless it’s a better-than-average ...

They're all essentially interchangeable by now, you know - these animated movies with talking animals. Or insects. Or cars. It's hard enough for adults to tell the difference between them, but for the ...

The bloom is finally off the digital rose of that newish art form, computer animation. “Doogal,” “The Wild,” “The Ant Bully,” “Ice Age 2,” “Cars” – most of this year’s computerized crop has had the ...

They're all essentially interchangeable by now, you know — these animated movies with talking animals. Or insects. Or cars. It's hard enough for adults to tell the difference between them, but for the ...

I understand that realism is not the main goal in an animated movie about anthropomorphized farm animals, but, seriously, what’s with the male cows in “Barnyard”? Did the bovine gender confusion at ...