The sight of Judi Dench voicing a prim and proper cow wasn't enough to turn this 2004 animated Disney movie into a smash hit.
The Big Picture If Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was “the one that started it all,” Home on the Range was “the one that ended it all” for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Released in April 2004, this title was briefly most famous for being the last-ever hand-drawn animated title from this studio. 2D animation had put Disney on the map back in the 1930s, but Mouse House bosses at the start of the 21st century felt the art form was no longer relevant to modern moviegoers.
What Is ‘Home on the Range’ About? On an episode of the Look Back Machine podcast, Home on the Range director Will Finn confesses something grave: he doesn’t like Western movies. While he admits a fondness for the innate absurdity of Spaghetti Westerns, he freely admits that he just doesn’t like traditional Western movies. Despite that, he and John Sanford were the two men assigned to bring the troubled Home on the Range to the big screen.
On that Look Back Machine podcast episode, Sanford notes that one story idea everyone involved in Home on the Range got really excited about was a preposterous way to give Alameda Slim some memorable motivation. Specifically, the notion was to have Slim steal all these cows so he could use them to charge into Washington D.C., and usurp the title of President of the United States. It was a wild villain scheme that sounded mighty entertaining…but it got shot down because George W.
Additionally, Disney gave Home on the Range an oddball release date over the first weekend of April. Most Walt Disney Animation Studios films up to that point had either been released in June or over Thanksgiving weekend. These timeframes had proved incredibly lucrative for the Mouse House and allowed titles like Aladdin or The Lion King to have legs for months. Home on the Range, meanwhile, was dumped with minimal fanfare in early April against a ton of other family movies .
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