Animal Farm
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis's animated take on Orwell. B-tier but unfairly maligned — Serkis and the voice cast deliver despite the discourse.
Filed under movies, literacy-media
Theater · Drama · ~1.5 hours
Seth Rogen Is Not the Sell: VAs + Orwell Are
This was a B-tier movie and is being unfairly maligned.
Fart jokes were scant (one by my count) and the film primarily dealt with real themes via great voice acting from anyone not named Seth Rogen. Gaten Matarazzo, Woody Harrelson, Laverne Cox, Jim Parsons, Iman Vellani, Kathleen Turner — and of course Andy Serkis and the whole gang — were pretty darn good.
It handled Orwell's theme about absolute power fine enough. Nothing groundbreaking for those of us who have seen “power corrupts” enough and knows how this particular story plays out. And the point of the tale is torturous to have play out because it's so painfully human (and of course esp. in the age of short-form video where watching this = watching ~140 reels in row).
It's not a bad film and it doesn’t pick sides in any way other than reminding that greed is bad and power corrupts and what if animals could talk heheh.
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