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
Seth Rogen Is Not the Sell — Serkis + 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 thought-provoking, and the point is torturous to have play out because it's so painfully human (even on an Animal Farm — the ultimate irony).
This Wired piece on media literacy captures the primary issue here — it's not a bad film.
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