I understand that realism is not the main goal in an animated movie about anthropomorphized farm animals, but, seriously, what’s with the male cows in “Barnyard”? Did the bovine gender confusion at ...

Steve Oedekerk, the writer and director of the animated comedy “Barnyard,” has one thing in common with his film’s principal character, a happy-go-lucky cow named Otis (voiced by Kevin James): They ...