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), Emily (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 Brazo 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 called Patch of Heaven with his mother, Pearl. 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 into the zoo, where schoolteacher Mandy Bertha and her students meet the little puppy. Dusty floats away on helium balloons and Bingo tries to save him, but the balloons are popped by bird control spikes, but he is saved by Scott. 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. Pearl 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 (Emily, 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 Rocco (whom Brody, 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 Buck. When Maggie finds out that the reward for capturing Slim is exactly $750, she convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save Patch of Heaven.

As Dusty tells his brother why he ran away, they were taken to the Brazo 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 Emily, who is tone deaf) into a trance that causes them to dance madly and follow Wiley anywhere. Bingo and the others escape and Emily 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 Slade and his men from chasing him. As Slade discusses with his men what his next move will be, Brody starts talking with Bingo and Dusty as old friends and miming actions. This causes Rocco to believe Brody is frightened by dogs, so he sends Brody back to the Sheriff. Brody 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 Buck and get to Slim first. Charlie accompanies Bessie, Emily, 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, Emily, 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 and Emily are better off without Bessie. The three spend the night under a large rock, with Bessie deciding to leave the next morning while Emily and Mrs. Clarabelle decide to return to Patch of Heaven 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.