What is Barnyard (movie)?
{{italictitle}} '''''Barnyard''''' is an [[animation|animated]] [[movie]] which first shown in [[Movie theater|theaters]] on August 4, 2006. It was directed, produced and written by [[Steve Oedekerk]]. The music was arranged and conducted by John Debney. == Plot == Otis is a [[cow]] who likes to play. His adoptive father Ben is the leader of the barnyard when the farmer Buyer is away. Otis interrupts a barnyard meeting with his wild behavior. Ben tells Otis he will never be happy if he just goofs off and that he should grow up. Otis ignores his advice and leaves to have fun with his friends: Pip, a wise-cracking mouse, Pig, an ever-hungry pig, Freddy, a paranoid ferret and Peck, a happy-go-lucky rooster. That same day, Otis meets a new cow, Daisy, who is pregnant. She is with Bessy, another female cow. That night the animals have a party in the barn. All the animals are there except Ben, who is guarding the animals. Otis is supposed to be working with him, but he wants to be at the party. Ben talks with Otis and says the day he found him alone in the meadow, the stars danced. Otis is given permission to go to the party and he runs to the barn. Later on, Ben has to fight a pack of [[coyote]]s led by Dag. They are raiding the chicken coop. Ben is bitten in the leg by a coyote, and he falls down. The coyotes pile on Ben, but he manages to grab Dag and escapes the pile. The [[hen]]s cheer, but Ben falls on the ground, tired. Etta, a hen, runs into the barn and tells Otis, who runs outside to his father. Ben opens his mouth as if to say something, but dies. After Ben's death, all the animals elect Otis as the new leader of the Barnyard. He gets out of his duties by leaving Freddy and Peck in charge of the coop. Later, Otis is sitting with Daisy and he overhears the coyotes chasing a [[hare]]. Otis tries to attack Dag but is outsmarted. Since Otis is weaker, Dag makes a deal that he and his pack will take some of the animals, but if he tries to stand up for all of them, they will kill everyone. Otis decides to leav