The tale of a group of animals determined to save their owner's dairy farm from the clutches of an evil outlaw, "Home on the Range" also boasts the return of composer Alan Menken ("Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin") to the creative team. While not destined to assume a place in the Disney animation pantheon, the film should reasonably entertain the small fry during the current holiday season, though it is not likely to attract the adult crossover audience that can make for a breakout animated hit. Featuring the sort of disparate voice-over cast emblematic of Disney cartoons, the film stars, among others, Roseanne Barr and Judi Dench, representing the most unusual screen pairing since, well, Barr and Meryl Streep in "She Devil."

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