Barnyard vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.9/10 for Barnyard). Barnyard is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 41m. Barnyard is the older of the two (2006 against 2020). Both are animation, comedy, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Barnyard
Soul| Barnyard | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Steve Oedekerk | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | John DiMaggio, Sam Elliott, Courteney Cox, Rob Paulsen, David Koechner | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Barnyard
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…