# Disney's "Home on the Range" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819 "2004-03-23T01:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/1 "2004-03-23T01:39:49Z")
I just saw a commercial a few minutes ago for the new Disney animated flick “Home on the Range” and good god, does it look like it’s ever going to suck. I can’t decide whether it’s the lame jokes like the chicken laying eggs when they’re scared to simulate crapping on themselves, the horrible animation, or the god awful voice actors that sound like a cross between Will Ferrell and Damon Wayans on speed that make me cringe so much or if it’s just the horrid gestalt of it all but I can’t imagine why anyone would want to see this movie. _Is_ anyone going to see this? If you are, _why_?! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/2 "2004-03-23T01:55:27Z")
Hmm. I thought “Brother Bear” was supposed to be Disney’s last hand-drawn cartoon movie. No, I don’t have any plans to see this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/3 "2004-03-23T01:57:48Z")
Well, at least it isn’t a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/4 "2004-03-23T01:59:03Z")
I’ve seen the trailer for this. Plot summary: Alameda Slim (the head bad guy, voiced by Randy Quaid) wants to own the entire valley. Only one property stands in the way. The farm animals learn of the plot and, led by the cows, decide to prevent the sale. Gee, do you suppose they can do it? BTW: I _think_ the lead cow is voiced by Rosanne Barr. > [@](#): > > _ **Is** anyone going to see this?_ My SO wants to. > [@](#): > > _If you are, **why**?!_ I have no idea. Of course, I have no idea why she has every single **Land Before Time** on video, either. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/5 "2004-03-23T02:17:05Z")
Of course I’ll go and see it. Looks like a good time. And I _liked_ Brother Bear. I’ll take anything with Bob & Doug and a Mammoth. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/6 "2004-03-23T02:59:58Z")
I’m not exactly all pumped up to see it, but I didn’t have the instinctive desire to claw my own eyeballs out when I first saw the trailer, like I did with _Brother Bear_. Looks like a second-rate, CGI _Chicken Run_. Meh. I probably won’t see it, but I’m not offended by its exsistence, as I have been with some other movies. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/7 "2004-03-23T03:58:44Z")
Wow. This looks bad. Really, incredibly, mind-numbingly bad. Probably worse than that, even. On a side note, have y’all noticed this bit on the commercials, where the horse looks over at the cows and, with a leer, asks them: “Got milk?” Does anybody else find this disturbing or is it just me? 'cuz, ya know… I mean, sure, Disney’s had animal couples together… Minnie and Mickey, Daisy and Donald. Even Goofy had the fling with that cow, Claribell was it? But this, this is too much. Distinctly implying not love, but LUST, between a horse and a cow? Ewwww! Hmm. Maybe I will go see this after all… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/8 "2004-03-23T04:14:47Z")
Well, to completely ruin any credibility my OP had in regards to judging the quality of animated flicks, I admit to wanting to see both _Brother Bear_ and _Lilo & Stitch_. In my defense though, I’ve heard good things about _Lilo \* and … well, I don’t know why but Bear \* just looks halfway decent. It won’t be a Lion King_ but it can’t exactly be an \*Aristocats \* either, now can it? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/9 "2004-03-23T04:26:06Z")
I did enjoy “Lilo and Stitch.” The sci-fi element was a bit weird to see in a Disney cartoon, but I thought it worked. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/10 "2004-03-23T04:31:08Z")
I saw a longer trailer for this at the theater, and it looked like a lot of fun. I think I’ll probably grab a grandkid or two and check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Sparky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Saint\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Sparky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/11 "2004-03-23T04:47:38Z")
This is possibly the first Disney movie I actually have an interest to see since “The Lion King”. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/12 "2004-03-23T07:24:15Z")
_Lilo & Stitch_ totally rocked, even if they did hammer in the “mahalo” theme a bit too thick. Still waiting for the special edition DVD, now pushed back to 2005 (bastards!). _Home on the Range,_ on the other hand, looks to leave an even bigger crater than _Brother Bear_ did. Every time I see the _HotR_ merchandise at the Disney Store, I keep asking myself, “What person at Disney thought that folks would want schlock plastered with cows everywhere” Feh. The _real_ animation junkie knows the only movie worth seeing this year is Pixar’s **The Incredibles** anyway… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/13 "2004-03-23T07:34:51Z")
I can’t imagine a film with the tagline “BUST A MOO” actually having any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Everything I’ve seen about this movie, from the billboard advertisements to the trailers, reeks of the sort of ham-fisted crap that has plagued non-Pixar Disney features for the last few years (with the exceptions of _Lilo and Stitch_ and the uproariously funny _The Emperor’s New Groove_). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/14 "2004-03-23T15:08:14Z")
We need to stop comparing apples and oranges here. _Lilo and Stich_ has a respectable [TomatoMeter rating](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/LiloStitch-1114489/) and did reasonably well at the box office. _Brother Bear_’s [rating](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/BrotherBear-1127071/) is just plain bad with box office to match. (Note: the McKenzie brothers are loved by a few and hated by many. _Strange Brew_, e.g., did great in Canada, but virtually tanked in the US. So a similar response to _Brother Bear_ should have been expected.) _Home on the Range_ is expected to stink. It’s going to be a turkey, and not the good kind that you can eat. Disney has used up nearly every last ounce of brand identification that used to ensure making money on any animated feature it could release. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-home-on-the-range/235819/15 "2004-03-23T18:32:37Z")
I’ve read rumors on Disney-themed message boards that many of the people involved in the creation of “Home on the Range” are rather embarrassed by it. I think it’s sad that this will probably be the final “traditional” animated feature from Disney, which has already shut down its Florida and, I think, California 2-D animation departments. From “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Bust a Moo.” Too bad.