Home on the Range

Home on the Range

A spiky animation style and cowboy yodelling give Home on the Range some charisma. A trio of cows--Maggie (voiced by Roseanne, She-Devil), Mrs. Calloway (Judi Dench, Iris), and Grace (Jennifer Tilly, Bound)--hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid, Kingpin) in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions (Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire), the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day, to the accompaniment of tunes warbled by k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, and Tim McGraw. These songs--composed by Alan Menken (who wrote the music for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast)--are the movie's strongest element; the characters are largely trumped up to fit a number of weak jokes that reference current pop culture, thus rupturing the movie's Old West world. Still, it looks nifty. --Bret Fetzer

Director(s): Will Finn, John Sanford
Production: Walt Disney Pictures
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2004
76
$49,887,802
Website
5,995 Views

[Alameda Slim arrives]

Maggie:
It's payback time. Cover me!

Grace:
With what?

The Willie Brothers:
Howdy, Slim.

Alameda Slim:
Quiet, you fools. We've got work to do. [singing] Now listen up! There are crooks in this here West who have claimed to be the best, an' think they wrote the book on how to rustle. Well, as good as they may be, not a one's as good as me, an' I barely have to move a single muscle! They call me mean, boys, depraved and nasty too, and they ain't seen, boys, the cruelest thing I do! You see, I yodel-adle-eedle-idle-odel! The sweetest way of rustlin' yet devised! 'Cause when I yodel-adle-eedle-idle-odel, Why, looky how them cows get hypnotized!

Bill:
He don't prod

Phill:
He don't yell

Gill:
Still he drives them dogies well

The Willie Brothers:
Which ain't easy when your chaps are labeled XXXXL!

Alameda Slim:
Yes, if you're lookin' from a bovine point of view, I sure can yodel-adle-eedle-idle, Odel-adle-eedle-idle, Yodel-adle-eedle-idle-oo! Here we go, boys! Five thousand cattle in the side pocket! [Yodels "William Tell Overture", "Yankee Doodle" and "Beethoven's Ode to Joy"] Yes, I can yodel-adle-eedle-odel!

Grace:
Maggie, Mrs. Calloway, snap out of it!

The Willie Brothers:
A sound them cattle truly take to heart!

Alameda Slim:
Yeah, I can yodel-adle-eedle-idle-odel-adle-eedle-idle-odel! An' smack my big ol' rump if that ain't art!

Gill:
[hit the Grace] He don't rope

Bill:
Not a chance!

Phill:
[Girls screamingly] He just puts 'em in a trance

The Willie Brothers:
He's a pioneer Pied Piper in ten-gallon underpants!

Alameda Slim:
Yep! I'm the real rip-roarin' deal to those who moo! Thanks to my yodel-adle-eedle-idle, Odel-adle-eedle-idle, I got cattle out the ol' wazoo! 'Cause I can yodel-adle-eedle-idle-oo! Yodel-adle-eedle-idle-oo! [Slim cackin' and girls screamin']

Alameda Slim:
[laughing] 5,000 Texas Longhorns. Not bad for one night's work.

Phil:
Pick a color. [He and Bill are playing with a cootie catcher]

Alameda Slim:
I said, not bad for one night's work. [Phil and Bill pay attention to Slim and clap] Thank you. And judging by the ear mark, I'd say these are the last of Big Mike Donald's herd.

Gil:
Big Mike Donald had a farm?

Phil and Bill:
E-l-E-l... [Slim bashes them on the heads with his fists] Ohh...

Alameda Slim:
That's right. He had a farm. [He goes to his dressing screen stock and puts on his Yancy O'Del disguise] Now that all his cash cows have disappeared, that poor sap's gonna be flat broke. Perfect time for a certain upstanding land owner to step in and take all the land.

Phil:
[screams] Who are you?!

Bill:
What did you do with Uncle Slim?!

Phil:
Put up your dukes, Mr. Fancy Britches! [Slim grabs his fingers] Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah!

Alameda Slim:
It's me. Hello! [Slim takes off the glasses and the blue top hat and holding a cane] This here is the disguise I use to sneak into all them auctions and buy all the land, you brainless monotone monkeys.

Gil:
Shoot, you got to be the richest land baron in the the west. [Phil and Bill clap]

Alameda Slim:
Yes, but the part that really warms my heart is watching those homesteaders suffer. [He grabs a branding iron and brands Mike Donald's Farm and the Dixon Farm on the map] Back in the day, I worked the highfalutinest ranches you ever seen, but those stuck-up ranch bosses couldn't appreciate my talents.

Phil:
Maybe they just didn't like your singing.

Alameda Slim:
My singing?! [Bill cover's Phil's mouth] Songbirds sing. Saloon gals sing. Little bitty snot-nosed children sing. I yodel! And yodeling IS AN ART!!!!

Bill:
Well, maybe they just didn't like your yodeling.

[Phil cover's Bill's mouth and Slim tries to hit them with his branding iron, but misses them when they duck]

Gil:
He didn't mean it, Uncle Slim. Everybody likes yodeling.

Alameda Slim:
Hmm?

Gil:
Why, it's one of the funniest, cornball, goofy, silly sounds in the whole west.

[Slim tries to hit Gil with his branding iron, but misses as Gil ducks, then Slim sees Patch of Heaven on the map as it's unauctioned as he twitches]

Alameda Slim:
Uh, Gil?

Gil:
Uh-huh?

Alameda Slim:
Am I correct in assuming that each and every time we brought a herd back to this secret lair you've managed to sit in the exact same spot, perhaps blocking that choice piece of property from my view?!

Gil:
This is my comfy place. [beat] What? [Slim grabs him by the neck as he unintelligible gets choked on]

Phil:
It's called Patch of Heaven, Uncle Slim. Goes on auction Thursday morning.

Alameda Slim:
[his fury quickly replaced by eagerness] Perfect! [He hits Gil on the head with his branding iron and lets him go] Pencil it in. Thursday morning... right after we sell off this herd.

Bill:
But it's just a little old dirt farm.

Alameda Slim:
Ah, what's the difference? When you're talking revenge, every last acre counts. [He brands Patch of Heaven on the map with his branding iron]


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