Home on the Range review!!

[disneyfreak62]

What was up with the Rico twist? No need for it at all, didn't seem to serve the plot in any meaningful way. I didn't get it and thought it was a cheap attempt to make the story interesting.

We thought that too. "Let's just do this here, so we can get to an ending"

That, and the whole scene where the one cow blames Roseannes' character for "ruining the farm"???? What, she was there 10 minutes? And she ruined the farm? Another thing that just tried to force the plot.

[BuzzedLightyear]

I totally agree, I really enjoyed the last 25 minutes of the movie. Up until that point the movie dragged in places that should have move dfaster, and sped by opportunities to really develop the characters. I would love to have the opportunity to rewrite the first 40 minutes.

[tservo]

I would love to have the opportunity to rewrite the first 40 minutes.

Seriously! Me and my wife were saying that this seemed like a good first draft. A nice place to start. Had they done three or four passes fine tuning the script, it could have been a great movie.

I still think it's not horrible – probably comparable to Return of Neverland. But it's definitely not the quality you expect from a studio fighting for mind share, with 100million plus budget.

I hated Rosanne in particular and the cows in general...

They did seem to bring the movie to a halt. I wonder what the movie was looking like before Roseanne got involved, because the secondary characters are far more interesting. Maybe they changed their focus late in the game?

I feel like HOTR was released because it was "good enough" and they didn't want to sink any more time/money into it.

[disneyfreak62]

I believe this film was called "Sweating Bullets" in early stages, and had another director. Wonder what it was like back then...

Did some quick research, looks like Sweating Bullets had the same basic story, but it looks like Buck lived on the farm, used to belong to a bounty hunter, and comes up with the idea to get Slim. There might have also been a Bull character named Bullets.

[tservo]

Thanks DF. That's kinda what I was thinking. I wish animated-movies.net was still around. They kept great tabs on the production process.

[ExClub]

Looks like HOTR was a bust (a moo).

[Nemo88]

animated-news.com reports:

The IMDb Screening Room notes that while critics haven't been lavish in their praise for Disney's Home on the Range, most do love the music. The score and songs were created by lyricist Glenn Slater and 8-time Academy Award winning composer Alan Menken, the most honored living Oscar winner. "I can easily imagine Gene Autry performing any of them, including the yodeling number," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, "and wasn't too surprised to find out that the Sons of the Pioneers [Roy Rogers' back-up group] starred in a 1946 movie with the same name." Joel Siegel on Good Morning America calls it Menken's "best score since Beauty and the Beast." Gene Seymour in Newsday regards the tunes as "amiable and witty," while Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News says that the film offers "enough catchy songs to make you want to buy the soundtrack (and tolerate your kids listening to it a couple of hundred times)."

[disneyfreak62]

Oh I agree! The music was the best part! That, and the design.

[DisneyPrincess81]

animated-news.com reports:

Joel Siegel on Good Morning America calls it Menken's "best score since Beauty and the Beast."

I resent that... Aladdin came out after Beauty and the Beast. :wink:

[Nemo88]

I resent that... Aladdin came out after Beauty and the Beast. :wink:

I really only like the opening song in Home on the Range,called "patch of heaven"...the other songs are a bit too "hokey" for my liking.

I still think Beauty and the Beast had the best soundtrack,although Aladdin's soundtrack was amazing too,cant get much better then "a whole new world".