Home on the Range [Blu-ray]

Overview

Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie (voice of Roseanne Barr), leader Mrs. Calloway (voice of Judi Dench), and na?ve Grace (voice of Jennifer Tilly) -- team up to save the farm. Along with ambitious stallion Buck (voice of Cuba Gooding Jr.), helpful rabbit Lucky Jack (voice of Charles Haid), and other helpful barnyard friends, the cows set out to capture Alameda Slim and collect the reward money. However, a vicious bounty hunter (voice of Charles Dennis) is also after Slim. The film features vocal performances by Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, and Tim McGraw.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/03/2012
UPC:	0786936825367
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:16:00
Sales rank:	17,690

Special Features

Disc 1 - Bonus Short - A Dairy Tale: The Three Little Pigs; Deleted Scenes - 4 Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker Info; Music Video; Trailblazers: The Making of Home on the Range; ; Disc 2: DVD Feature Film + Bonus; Bonus Short - A Dairy Tale: The Three Little Pigs; Deleted Scenes - 4 Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker Info; Music Video; Trailblazers: The Making of Home on the Range; ; Yodelmentary - Wacky funumentary that toplines the history of the Yodel and ends with a Yodel-off from kids and adults around the world; Joke Corral: Herd of Jokes (Deleted Jokes); ; Yodelmentary - Wacky funumentary that toplines the history of the Yodel and ends with a Yodel-off from kids and adults around the world

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Roseanne Barr	Maggie
Judi Dench	Mrs. Caloway
Jennifer Tilly	Grace
Cuba Gooding Jr.	Buck
Steve Buscemi	Wesley
G.W. Bailey	Rusty
Randy Quaid	Alameda Slim
Lance LeGault	Junior
Charles Dennis	Rico
Joe Flaherty	Jeb
Charles Haid	Lucky Jack
Patrick Warburton	Patrick
Estelle Harris	Audrey
Bobby Block	Actor
Carole Cook	Pearl
Richard Riehle	Sheriff Sam Brown
Charlie Dell	Ollie
Gov. Ann Richards	Annie
Sam Levine	Phil Willie
Sarah Parker	Pearl
David Burnham	Willy
Ja'net DuBois	Voices
Gregory Jbara	Voices
Jason Graae	Voices
Mark Walton	Bob the Longhorn
Alan Menken	Composer
Alan Mencken	Composer

Technical Credits

Will Finn

John Sanford

Will Finn	Director,Screenwriter
John Sanford	Director,Screenwriter
Alice Dewey Goldstone	Producer
Marlon West	Special Effects
Matthew Beck	Casting
Mary Hidalgo	Casting

Editorial Reviews

This is the way Disney's hand-drawn animation department ends -- not with a bang, but a whimper. Like a veteran ballplayer continuing to suit up after the onset of arthritis, Home on the Range stumbles in at just over 70 minutes, a pale shadow of the giants that revived the studio's clout in the 1990s. It may feature a handful of plucky cows, but the film was far short of a cash cow, returning only $50 million domestically on its reported $110 million budget. It's not that Home on the Range is bad, so much as colossally unimportant. It's easy to see why Disney rarely strays from fairy tales or other stories in the public domain, because this saga of three cows protecting the farm from Old West archetypes and other varmints is small and flavorless. Save a few angular landscapes and sharply designed characters, the animators seem to have given up on being inventive, knowing that their jobs would not survive this project. Home on the Range does have a wickedly metaphorical undercurrent, as the plot involves the closure of numerous farms and ranches -- the end of the old way of doing things. But Home on the Range would only entertain the youngest tykes even if it had been CG. Seeing as how the film is aimed at such an infantile demographic, it's all the more strange that they slapped a PG rating on what amounts to a totally inoffensive piece of insignificance. Happy trails, Disney, until we meet again -- if we ever do.