Home on the Range??
So maybe I'm a total cheese for thinking this movie looks "Utterly HILARIOUS" 😉 but love the trailer and the commerical-which makes fun on the farm look even more lively-especially with Roseanne, Cuba Gooding and Sarah Jessica Parker-what a cast. Anyone else excited about the animation in the movie?
Sarah Jessica plays the owner of the farm-and she's a recent widow and she's in debt. This is the synposis from coming soon:
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/h/homeonrange.php
Home on the Range
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Will Finn, John Sanford
Screenwriter: Not available
Starring: Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Sarah Jessica Parker, Randy Quaid, David Burnham, Ja'Net DuBois, Gregory Jbara
Genre: Animation, Family, Musical, Western
MPAA Rating: PG (for brief mild rude humor)
Official Website: Disney.com/HomeontheRange
Review: Not available
DVD/VHS: Not available
Movie Poster: Buy at AllPosters.com
Plot Summary: A family farm inhabited by a widow (Parker), her young daughter, and various and sundry farm animals. The widow owes $1,000 mortgage on the farm and has no way to pay for it, and the cows get wind of the trouble. Fearing that they'll be sold to the local meat- packing plant, the cows seek to find a way to earn the money. Enter the family horse, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. He used to belong to a bounty hunter, and knows a great way to save the farm. You see, he's heard that in the nearby town, there's a bandit afoot (Quaid), with a $1,000 bounty on his head.
Glowing for Home -- article
I just found this great article about Home on the Range:
"The battles at Disney are far from over… even if the media frenzy is over for a while. Of course, the media will continue to act more like a bunch of frenzied rubes than professionals with editorial perspective, forgetting to look at the studio’s product in the perspective of the year, instead obsessing on each release.
How did they end up spending over $100 million on a horse movie with no star who has ever opened a movie? Why did they invest over $75 million in a historical drama, again, with no movie star to open the picture? These are valid questions. But they miss the point. No movie is an island and no one bad call defines a studio’s year. And you have to know that no one is going to write about the upswing at the studio this summer, as they release Garry Marshall’s Raising Helen, Jerry Bruckheimer’s King Arthur, Phil Anchutz’s Around The World in 80 Days, The Princess Diaries sequel and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.
But before we get to the real summer, Disney gets an early start with the aforementioned The Alamo and a “traditionally” animated film that has had been the subject of a lot of negative buzz as it slowly limped to the marketplace.
But here’s the punchline…
Home on the Range is an absolute joy of a movie. It is old fashioned, silly, anthropomorphic, non-digital and the only way it will not leave you grinning is if the stick sticking out of your ass is distracting you. "
😱 😄
Re: Glowing for Home -- article
Interesting article. I think both movies will be worth seeing. From what I hear, the traditional 2-D animation of Home on the Range, and the story itself, are going to be good. And, from some of the pictures I've seen of The Alamo, Billy Bob Thornton seems to fit right into the part of Davey Crockett. We'll see....