Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Barney was a big part of my childhood. Well, anti-Barney humor was a big part of my childhood. Yes, I was around when it first aired. I am so proud to say that it wasn't the first show I ever watched, as that would go to something like "Sesame Street" or "Mister Roger's Neighborhood". I don't know if this is even technically the first Barney movie. There may have been a few TV movies out there that came first. I don't care and don't want to watch them. I actually heard that even people who are Barney fans (yes, they exist) don't like this movie! A lot of things don't hold up as an adult and this is certainly one of them.Is this worth all the hate it gets? Yeah, pretty much. I guess I don't hate it as much as most people and everyone will go nuts that I didn't give this a 1/10. You could use the argument that it's just something for kids, but that's not an excuse. The shows I just mentioned were for kids and they still hold up today. The late 90's really was a dark time for movies. It's a pity no one on Channel Awesome has reviewed this yet. I think this actually isn't quite made fun of as much as "Twilight" or "The Phantom Menace". To be fair to those, this really is worse than them.The story just makes no sense. Baby Bop and BJ barely appear at all. Yeah, I'm not defending them. I'm just saying that the film could have had more variety if it had more than just Barney. They make a big deal about how the grandparents are going to see him. Everyone in the whole town saw him in public! Half of this movie is just spent looking for a lost egg. That's literally all that happens. Yeah, Barney does work in his trademark song at the end. There's much better stuff out there for your kids, but hey, this is still better than Carrot Top. *1/2

This is a totally enjoyable adventure for kids and adults alike.There are exciting parts like trying to find the egg at the town carnival.There are funny parts like the interactions of the boy, Cody, and his sister and her friend.Users who panned this movie are trying to Roger Ebert reviewing a regular release movie. This is Barney and a movie about kids' imagination and dreams.Just sit back and enjoy with your kids or grand-kids.Good Job whoever is responsible for this fun film.10 out of 10.

As a father, I must say, I enjoyed this movie with our little daughter back in 2000! And my Wife and I still love it! There's just something about Mom & Dad sitting down to enjoy a good, morally-clean, fun family movie with kids! Barney beats most of the sub-culture trash movies out there that our little ones are forced to watch.Research has shown that movies and cartoons have a great impact on little minds. Indiscriminate TV watching has resulted in kids throwing tantrums, being disrespectful to authority, and lazy lay-a bouts that couldn't care less about helping around in the home. It all comes back to parenting! The kids become what the parents are. So if parents watch trash...the kids will think that's good for them too. Monkey see, monkey do. Barney helps keep trash out of the living room!If children see parents spending a few moments to pray together each day...their peace and contentment in life will be great. The film industry leaves much to be desired when looked at from this angle.-Lance Marchetti-South Africa

Well... I have not watched Barney in years, because I am now 16 and I have grown out of it. But even at my age, I feel that every once in a while I need to relive the cutest and most charming moments of my life.To clarify, I never saw Barney's Great Adventure as a kid, but I only saw it just today on YouTube. I was checking it out to see if it was as bad as most people claim it to be and expected it to be a big waste of my time and really annoying, though admittedly I skipped an irrelevant musical number, but it turned out to be a movie that was, in my opinion, fine for little children.On the other hand, the real negative points are... the story is somewhat clichéd (i.e. disgruntled kid on their grandparent's farm during the summer and wanting fun, the race against time plot etc.), the film's message, at times, is often skewed. For example, just imagining something becomes something else does not happen instantly... for example, a fallen tree does not become a wooden airplane in 30 seconds just by imagining.On the plus side, the children could act OK, the visual effects, though sub-par, do look convincing to a toddler, and the ending with the little creature from the egg was admittedly kinda cute. And I'll give the movie credit for attempting to provide a good first time outing at the theatres for kids, as well as encouraging kids to imagine, but if you're a parent, grandparent, babysitter, teacher, caretaker etc., then you'll want to explain the real meaning of the message to kids.... All in all, I realized how pessimistic I was at first and that I shouldn't always expect the worse to happen.