{"id":352784,"date":"2025-12-17T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352784\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:11:09","slug":"new-animated-version-of-animal-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352784\/","title":{"rendered":"New Animated Version of Animal Farm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Animated Version of Animal Farm?<\/p>\n

Hmm, I really don\u2019t know about this one<\/a>: an animated adaptation of George Orwell\u2019s Animal Farm as a sort of Ice Age-ish comedy adventure? One commenter on YouTube says, \u201cThis movie is 100% gonna end with a random dance party scene with the pigs and humans dancing to something like Uptown Funk\u201d and another suggests that \u201cthis is like a bad Family Guy joke from 2007 escaped into the real world\u201d.<\/p>\n

From a review in IGN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gone are the specific allusions to the Russian Revolution and the stinging critique of Stalinism laced into Orwell\u2019s \u201call animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others\u201d allegory. Instead, Serkis paints the terrifying rise of porcine dictator Napoleon (Seth Rogen, playing brilliantly to and against type) in a broader brush for a modern era of big business run amok. In toning down the more graphic elements of its descent into totalitarianism and simplifying the depths of its commentary, the director and performance-capture pioneer trades a dystopian tone for something a little more uplifting. It\u2019s a fun movie with some creative visual choices and a great cast, but it\u2019s also hard not to feel like it lost some teeth on its journey from the page to the screen.<\/p>\n

This Variety review<\/a> isn\u2019t much more encouraging:<\/p>\n

Serkis\u2019 21st-century update dilutes Orwell\u2019s political allegory in favor of what passes for something more \u201caudience friendly\u201d: His approach adopts the celebrity voices, cutesy character designs and antic, mile-a-minute energy of big-studio American toons. The result isn\u2019t nearly as polished as Illumination or DreamWorks movies, but \u201cgood enough for government work,\u201d as the saying goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Animated Version of Animal Farm? Hmm, I really don\u2019t know about this one: an animated adaptation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-352784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}