The farm elects a mournful and reluctant Otis as the new leader. Ben drives them off alone, but gets badly injured and dies. As the animals party, a pack of coyotes led by Dag attempt to raid the chicken coop. Before Otis leaves, Ben tells him he saw the stars dance the night he found him as a calf.

Otis convinces Ben to cover his night watch so he can attend a massive party in the barn and impress Daisy, a pregnant cow who recently arrived at the farm. Instead of following rules and accepting responsibility, Otis prefers to goof off with his friends Pip the mouse, Pig the pig, Peck the rooster, and Freddy the ferret, to the disapproval of his adoptive father Ben, the farm’s leader. Otis is a carefree cow who lives on a farm where the animals are anthropomorphic when humans are away. Additionally, it spawned a television series, Back at the Barnyard, which ran on Nickelodeon and later Nicktoons for two seasons. It grossed $116.5 million worldwide against a $51 million production budget. The film received mixed reviews on Metacritic and negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, whose critical consensus describes it as 'unimaginative and unfunny'. The film began development in 2002, and was released on August 4, 2006, in the United States. It tells the story of Otis, a carefree cow who learns the value of responsibility when he becomes the leader of his farm home's community after his adoptive father's death from a coyote attack. The film stars the voices of Kevin James, Courteney Cox, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes, Andie MacDowell, and David Koechner. The film is directed, produced, and written by Steve Oedekerk, the co-creator of Nickelodeon Movies and O Entertainment's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) and its television series continuation The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. Barnyard is a 2006 computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Nickelodeon Movies and O Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and the first installment in the Barnyard franchise.

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