![]() Especially in the opening scenes, a multiplane effect is used to further flatten, rather than deepen, this storybook world. The film redeems itself in its art direction, which bursts with Disney color and retro UPA-style angularity. Quit staring." Crossdressing, pee, and fat man jokes follow.) Alan Menken wrote a few snappy but unmemorable tunes (none of which are sung by the characters, but by the likes of Bonnie Raitt and k.d. I was surprised not by the simplicity but by the unnecessary, unfunny bawdiness of the script (the movie opens with a shot of the Barr cow's ample udders, with her voiceover dryly remarking "Yep, they're real. There's no time for any kind of character development (not even with a sacred Disney "I Want" song), and the thinnest of premises has the cows hunting for Slim in time to get the reward money to save their farm. Estelle Harris and Patrick Warburton (so memorable in "Toy Story 2" and "Groove," respectively), had brief cameos as well. ![]() Oh, and Steve Buscemi shows up too, as a caricature of himself in a purple suit and a pencil moustache. To begin, there is an overabundance of plastic-playset ready characters (literally a whole farm full): the trio of bounty-hunting heifers played by Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, and Jennifer Tilly the yodeling cattle rustler Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid) and his three bumbling nephews the wannabe-hero steed Buck (Cuba Gooding Jr- who ok'ed that name?) two lascivious bulls a buffalo bouncer a peg-legged jackrabbit and a whole farmyard of pigs, chickens, a goose, and a surly goat. "Home on the Range" suffers from an unoriginal and unfunny script, although it is not tediously poor or Saturday-morning-cartoon simple. While the film wasn't a total dud a la "Treasure Planet," it's certainly no "Little Mermaid," or even "Emperor's New Groove," which I consider the best of the latest crop of cartoons for its hip sensibility. ![]()
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