How can a film be so obnoxiously loud and crazy and yet so
boring at the same time? Other than a slightly catchy opening song, I can’t
think of a single redeeming quality in this thing…
For those of you lucky enough to have not sat through Home
on the Range, it’s the film widely regarded as having killed of hand drawn
animation at Walt Disney Animation Studios for good and is about a group of cows who go to catch a
cattle rustler to save their farm. The characters are all unoriginal archetypes
– you have the snooty posh cow, the one who shakes things up, the ditzy one,
the horse who wants to be the hero. No depth is added to any of them, so the
characters and storyline come across as boring and unoriginal. Which they are.
The villain is just as irritating and forgettable as the
rest of the characters and the way in which many of the characters fall for his
scheme is simply stupid.
As I said, this film’s tone is also too zany and cartoony
for its own good, meaning it just becomes annoying for the most part. There’s
so much crazy action going on that the whole thing comes across as garish and
the fact that the majority of the film is entirely unfunny doesn’t help matters
either.
You can see where the storyline is going from a mile off,
with them all not getting along and going on a journey to bond, so there aren’t
really even any surprises along the way, except for one twist involving a
character that no one really cared about in the first place.
Overall, this is definitely one to skip.
Ratings
Good guys: A
majority of the characters in this are irritating archetypes, so the good guys
get 1/10
Bad guys: Slim is
also pretty annoying, although slightly less so than the heroes, so the bad
guys get 2/10
Animation: For
much of the time, the animation only contributes to the garish tone of the
whole thing, although it doesn’t look too bad overall, so the animation gets 4/10
Music: All of the
songs are either incredibly irritating or incredibly forgettable, with the
exception of the alright opening song, so the music gets 3/10
Plot: Boring and
predictable, the plot gets 1/10
Overall score: 11/50
Next review: Chicken Little
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