- 8
...a delightfully cheeky animated tale...
—Ella Taylor LA Weekly
- 8
...a delightfully cheeky animated tale...
—Ella Taylor Village Voice
- 7
...can seem like a series of Far Side panels expanded into a feature, but it imparts its lessons with a wealth of detail and too many gags to catch in one viewing.
—M.K. Terrell Christian Science Monitor
- 7
...a better-than-average animated feature.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 6
...it feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from The Lion King.
—Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly
- 6
...basically good -- though not very inspired...
—Bill Zwecker Chicago Sun-Times
- 5
...the premise of this movie assumes the very idea of animals talking must be side-splitting, so when the ferret gets all guilty and jabbery about hungering for his rooster pal, it's gotta be a laugh riot time. Too bad.
—Chuck Nundrum E!
- 5
...a loud, run-of-the-farm comedy...
—Leah Rozen People
- 4
...a slapdash assembly of obvious gags and one-liners, held together by the flimsiest of narratives.
—Tim Knight Reel
- 4
...there are too few laughs for a so-called comedy; the blatant lack of originality feels a little insulting; and the characters aren't cute and cuddly enough to inspire stuffed animals or other marketable toys...
—Angel Cohn TV Guide
- 4
...like too many animated films aimed at children, Barnyard embraces stereotypes that generally no longer cut it in adult films, and for good reason.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 4
Instead of an MPAA rating, the Barnyard poster should carry a warning: "For ages 5 and below."
—Sean O'Connell filmcritic.com
- 4
If you want to punish your kids, send them to bed without dinner. If you want to disturb, frighten and depress them while making sure they fail biology, take them to the animated feature Barnyard.
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 3
Pretty much all you need to know about "Barnyard" is summed up in its subtitle, "The Original Party Animals," and in its tagline, "What happens in the barn, stays in the barn"...
—Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times
- 3
You'd think that knowing there'd be a summer deluge of animated movies would have given studios a little more incentive to try harder, and in some cases they did. But Paramount's Barnyard now proves to be the season's weakest contender.
—Marie Iida Premiere
- 3
...hideous...
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club