Bingo (2025 film)

Bingo is a 2025 American animated Western musical buddy comedy film loosely based on the nursery rhyme of the same name, directed by Brandon Greene, and produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film features the voices of Owen Wilson, David Spade, Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Elliott. It is not produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film features a musical score by Alan Menken, with songs produced by the musician Josh Woodward.

It tells the story of Bingo (Wilson), a runaway yellow Labrador Retriever who ran away from the circus and lost his father, Cash (Elliott) to a flash flood while traveling. He later finds himself at a dairy farm run by Farmer Scott MacDonald (Ferrell) and his mother (Glenn Close). Scott adopts him as his dog and the two develop a strong bond. Years went by and when an eviction notice shows up at the gates of the farm, Bingo, along with his friends and family: Dusty (Spade), a stray cat, Maria (Ginnifer Goodwin), a white sheep, Jack (Sean Hayes), a donkey, and three dairy cows, Bessie (Roseanne Barr), Fran (Jennifer Tilly), and Mrs. Clarabelle (Judi Dench), take it upon themselves to prevent their home from being taken away. To do so, they set out on a quest, along with the Sheriff's horse (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Dusty's older brother (Tim Curry), and three dogs from the Bingo's old circus (Andy Garcia, Dwayne Johnson, and Josh Gad) to collect the ransom on outlaw Wiley the Kid (Peter Dinklage), a wanted cattle rustler.

The film was released in theaters on April 10, 2025 by to mainly positive critical reception, and grossed $170 million against a budget of $50 million. The film's success led to spawn a television series, titled Bingo & Company, which ran on Disney Junior for four seasons from 2026 to 2030, a sequel, Bingo and Son (2028), and a midquel, Bingo's Puppy Years (2033) which were both released on Disney+.

Plot
In Texas, Bingo is an outcast Labrador Retriever puppy who lives at the Bradford Bros. Circus with his father, Cash. Bingo is a pacifist, and is bullied by the other puppies Hunter (a Rottweiler), Chase (a German Shepherd), and Butch (a Doberman). His only best friend is a stray Tuxedo kitten named Dusty who he just met. Their star puppy, Lauren, develops an infection from having stepped on a nail, so they use Bingo in place of her for their next act, The Ring of Fire. But Bingo is afraid of fire, having him and Cash being separated from his mother because of a fire as a puppy, and chickens out. In rage of the embarrassment, Steve gets ready to shoot him, but his wife, Ginger and Cash and while trying to restrain him, she tells Cash and Bingo to start over and find a family. Bingo does so when Ginger finally agrees with Steve to kill him when Bingo mistakes her orders several times.

Bingo and Cash are left with no home and had to find a new place. During several travels and obstacles, They see a gunshot sound come from Wiley the Kid, a cattle rustler and escaped. Cash takes Bingo to track a town, leading them into a ravine. Cash saves Bingo from a flash flood before being swept away and killed.

Without his father, Bingo shoulders more of the workload. He is captured by a hobo who cells him to Scott MacDonald, a farmer who runs a small farm with his mother, Jess. Although hesitant at first, he finally warms up to him. He meets a white lamb named Maria and a donkey named Jack and became friends. Another new member of the farm member, Bessie, a former showcow and Bingo once again ran into Dusty and introduces him to his new family.

The next morning, Scott follows Bingo, while taking care of an egg into the zoo, where schoolteacher Mandy Bertha and her students meet the little puppy. Bingo floats away on helium balloons and Scott tries to save both him and the egg, but the balloons are popped by bird control spikes, but they are saved by Scott. Dusty tries to escape from animal control Eli and Lenny, but Bingo saves him. After some crazy shenanigans, Scott officially accepts him as his own. Bingo has truly found his place.

Some years later, Bingo has grown into an adult dog. Earl Barton, the local Sheriff arrives to tell Scott that their bank is cracking down on debtors. Jess has three days to pay the bank $750, or the farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Dusty convinces Bingo, his friends, Bessie and two other cows (Fran, a happy-go-lucky character, and Mrs. Clarabelle, who has had leadership go to her head) to go to town to attempt winning prize money at a fair. While the animals are in town, they learned that Dusty has an older brother named Livingston Von Fuzzypants III Esquire and that his real name is "Hamilton". A bounty hunter named Ace (whom Mack, the Sheriff's horse, idolizes) drops a criminal off and collects the reward. Stating he needs a replacement horse to go after Wiley the Kid while his own horse rests, he takes Mack. When Bingo and Bessie found out that the reward for capturing Wiley is exactly $750, Bingo convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save the farm.

As Dusty tells his brother why he ran away, they were taken to the Bradford Bros. Circus, where Bingo meets his old comrades Hunter, Butch, and Chase along with their mentor and Cash's old friend, Charlie. That night, they hide among a large herd of steers, when Wiley the Kid appears. Before any of them can do anything, Wiley begins a yodeling song which sends all the cattle (except Fran, who is tone deaf) into a trance that causes them to dance madly and follow Wiley anywhere. Bingo and the others escape and Fran is able to bring Bessie and Mrs. Clarabelle back to their senses just before Wiley closes the path behind him with a rock-slide to stop Ace and his men from chasing him. As Ace discusses with his men what his next move will be, Mack starts talking with Bingo and Dusty as old friends and miming actions. This causes Ace to believe Mack is frightened by dogs, so he sends Mack back to the Sheriff. Mack escapes, determined to capture Wiley for himself to prove his worth. Chase is captured and sent to the pound, and Hunter informs a horrified Bingo that non-fighters now become roadkill.

Bingo, Dusty, Maria, Jack, Livingston, Hunter, and Butch continue their search for Wiley, determined to pass Mack and get to Wiley first. Charlie accompanies Bessie, Fran, and Mrs. Clarabelle to find the gang and capture Wiley. During the travel, they were attacked by a coyote and Hunter fights it but lost. The coyote's tails gets stuck between a rock and Bingo and Dusty pushes the boulder crushing the coyote. Back at the farm Scott speaks with Mandy, who helps him understand what is important in life. He sets out to go find his animals.

Jack and Butch want to sleep, but the restless Bingo is unable to settle. Annoyed, Dusty tags along, but Jack loses his courage and follows. Bingo leaps across a fast-moving river and wants Jack to do the same. Jack falls in and is swept downstream. He grabs a branch over a waterfall and calls for Bingo's help, but Bingo is paralyzed by a flashback of his father's death. Jack falls from the branch and Bingo snaps out of the flashback, rescuing his friend. Bingo is ashamed that Jack nearly died because of his fear of the past as they spend the night in a cave. That night, Bingo comforts Butch as he grieves for Chase, making a friend of him.

As Dusty was getting ready for bed, he finds a bullet on the ground and shows it to Bingo. It was Wiley's bullet. Realizing that Wiley was responsible for the flood and all the animal cruelty, especially to dogs, Bingo warns the others about what's more to Wiley. Hunter refuses to accept the truth, and starts fighting Bingo, accidentally knocking him off the cliff. He gets taken to the pound.

During their search for Bingo and the others, Bessie, Fran, Mrs. Clarabelle, and Charlie have a fallout when they lose the trail in a flash flood. Mrs. Clarabelle accuses Bessie of wanting to go after Wiley only as a personal vendetta, arguing that she, Fran, and Bingo are better off without Bessie. The three spend the night under a large rock, with Bessie deciding to leave the next morning while May and Mrs. Clarabelle decide to return to the barnyard once they find Bingo and his friends and to say their final farewells.

As Bingo was sleeping, he wakes up to what appears to be his father, which he calls him into a meadow. Cash encourages him to step up to become a brave leader as he is needed by his family and friends before informing him that Scott is out there looking for them and might get captured, encouraging him to stop Wiley once and for all, no matter what it takes. After some thought, Bingo is initially iffy, but it turns out it was only a dream. The gang wakes and found out that Butch was gone to. Bingo, Dusty, Maria, and Jack reunite with their adoptive bovine aunts. After explaining the situation, Bingo and Bessie decide to go after Wiley, but Dusty convinces Mrs. Clarabelle that they help. Dusty leads the gang to Wiley's lair in Echo Mine where Butch has been. Butch tried to get in but was told cows only, but Bessie vouched for him. At the mine, Wiley reveals that he has been stealing all cattle from his former patrons and kills dogs and cooks them. When his former patrons can no longer support their land, Wiley buys the land when it is auctioned off, under the guise of the respectable-looking Yancy O'Dell, using the very money he gets from selling the cattle he stole. Scott hears all this and tries to escape but is captured and tied up in a pole in a mine.

Bing breaks out and rescues Hunter, as well as Chase, who had not yet been killed. Steve runs into the room and tells Ginger that he has found Scott tied and that they have no choice but to call the police. Meanwhile, Eli and Lenny are attacked by Chase and Hunter, and is captured and tied up with Scott. Carelessly, Eli tosses his cigarette, setting the lair on fire just as they break for the car. Scott, seemingly dying of the heat and smoke inhalation, tells Bingo to ring the fire alarm. Bingo does so, overcoming his fear of fire. The police move in and listen to the game on the radio. Then they arrest Lenny and Eli and nurse Scott's injuries. Dusty then gets into an encounter with a policeman, who believes he has been drinking and fines him.

The gang capture Wiley, but They run off with Wiley's accomplices and buyer in pursuit on a steam train. Ace arrives. When the chase stops, Ace is revealed to work for Wiley. Crushed by this, Mack decides to help the Scott and his animals and fights Ace while setting the others free. Wiley dons his Yancy O'Dell costume and leaves Scott and the animals stranded in the middle of the desert with the train, while he goes to attend the auction. However, Bingo and friends arrive using the train to the farm and expose Wiley. Wiley is arrested, and the farm is saved by the reward money. Dusty decides that he's leaving to go back home with Livingston but when he meets Mandy and adopts him which makes him and Livingston want to stay.

A few weeks pass, Scott married Mandy and at the county fair, most of the livestock on the barnyard have won prizes. Bingo is the new leader of the barnyard, Charlie moves in with Geoff the Goat as his neighbor, the dogs are now a part of this family, and two steer and Wiley's charming and gentlemanly steed Bully the Buffalo arrive unexpectedly to live at the barnyard, expanding the farm. Scott and Mandy share a romantic moment but are interrupted by Dusty, who has started a rocket; Bingo jumps in with him and they end up repeatedly circumnavigating the globe.

Voice Cast

 * Owen Wilson as Bingo, a kind, flower loving, playful yellow Labrador retriever and the titular main protagonist. He ran away from the circus and escaped to the farm.
 * Kath Soucie as Young Bingo
 * David Spade as Hamilton “Dusty” Von Fuzzypants, a mischievous stray Tuxedo cat and Bingo’s best friend and the deuteragonist. He left the fancy lifestyle to find new places.
 * Jason Marsden as Young Dusty
 * Will Ferrell as Scott MacDonald, a farmer and Bingo’s owner and the tritagonist.
 * Drew Barrymore as Mandy Bertha, an elementary school teacher and Scott’s love interest.
 * Sam Elliott as Cash, a Golden Retriever and Bingo’s father and main star of the circus, until his death.
 * Peter Dinklage as Wiley The Kid, a western outlaw with an eyepatch on his left eye and the main antagonist.
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Maria, a white sheep and one of Bingo’s friends.
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Young Maria
 * Sean Hayes as Jack, a worrywart donkey and one of Bingo’s friends.
 * Ashleigh Ball as Young Jack
 * Tim Curry as Livingstone Von Fuzzypants III Esquire, a British Shorthair and Dusty’s snobby and sophisticated older brother.
 * Teresa Gallagher as Young Livingstone
 * Josh Gad as Butch, a undersized but fast Doberman.
 * Grey Griffin as Young Butch
 * Andy Garcia as Hunter, a  Rottweiler who bullies Bingo due to him being a screw up and his fear of fire.
 * Sam Vincent as Young Hunter
 * Dwayne Johnson as Chase, a narcissistic-yet-friendly German Shepherd.
 * Phil LaMarr as Young Chase
 * Roseanne Barr as Bessie, a former showcow and the newest animal in the farm.
 * Judi Dench as Mrs. Clarabelle, a cow who serves as the leader of animals in the farm before passing the torch to Bingo at the end of the film.
 * Jennifer Tilly as Fran, an optimistic and innocent minded cow.
 * Cuba Gooding Jr. as Mack, a self-centered, action-loving horse who dreams of being a hero.
 * John Goodman as Maestro Bradford, the ringmaster and co-owner of the Bradford Bros. Circus.
 * Blake Shelton as Brad Bradford, Maestro's brother and co-owner of the Bradford Bros. Circus.
 * Alan Tudyk as Charlie, a Jack Russell Terrier, a trainer of puppies in the circus, and Jim’s old friend.
 * Tudyk also voices Russell, Sam's dog and Mack's friend.
 * Charles Dennis as Ace, a famous bounty hunter and Mack's idol.
 * Glenn Close as Jess MacDonald, Scott's mother and former owner of the barnyard.
 * Ben Giroux as Buster, a wisecracking and cheeky baby bird and one of Bingo's friends.
 * Andie MacDowell as Ella, Buster's overprotective mother.
 * Fred Tatasciore as Pig, a pig who is one of Bingo's friends.
 * Cam Clarke as Benny, a panicky, neurotic badger who is one of Bingo's friends.
 * Rob Paulsen as Rudy, a rooster who is another one of Bingo's friends.
 * Joe Flaherty as Geoff, a grumpy goat in the barnyard.
 * Steve Buscemi as Winston, a lack market businessman who negotiates with Wiley.
 * Richard Riehle as Sherriff Earl Barton, the town sheriff and Mack's owner.
 * Brad Garrett as Carl, a Cane Corso.
 * Garrett also voices Bully, Willy the Kid's pet buffalo.
 * Stephen Root as Frank, a Pitbull.
 * Suzie Plakson as Ginger, a Circus performer and wife of Steve who along with him is the first owners of Bingo.
 * Kevin Bacon as Steve, a Circus performer who is the first owner of Bingo.
 * Estelle Harris as Helen, a chicken in the barnyard.
 * Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as Eli and Lenny, the dogcatchers and Wiley's two nephews and henchmen.
 * Claudia Cardinale as Anne, the owner of a saloon.