Home on the Range / U nás na farmě

Premiéra (Premiere): 21.3.2004 (USA), 2.8.2004 (Czech republic)
Režie (Direction): Will Finn, John Sanford
Scenář (Scenario): Will Finn, John Sanford
Produkce (Production): Alice Dewey
Hudba (Music): Alan Menken
Kamera (Camera): ?
English / Anglicky
A spiky animation style and cowboy yodelling give Home on the Range
some charisma. A trio of cows--Maggie (voiced by Roseanne, She-Devil),
Mrs. Calloway (Judi Dench, Iris), and Grace (Jennifer Tilly, Bound)--hit
the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid,
Kingpin) in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the
aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions (Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire),
the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day, to the
accompaniment of tunes warbled by k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, and Tim McGraw. These
songs--composed by Alan Menken (who wrote the music for The Little Mermaid
and Beauty and the Beast)--are the movie's strongest element; the
characters are largely trumped up to fit a number of weak jokes that reference
current pop culture, thus rupturing the movie's Old West world. Still, it looks
nifty.
Bret Fetzer
Czech / Česky