Animal Farm

1999

Comedy / Drama / Family

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 6817 6.8K

farm right and justice corruption based on novel or book pig revolution

Director

John Stephenson Photo
John Stephenson

Top cast

Patrick Stewart Photo
Patrick Stewart as Napoleon
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Photo
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Mollie
Julia Ormond Photo
Julia Ormond as Jessie
Paul Mark Elliott Photo
Paul Mark Elliott as Additional Voices
480p.DVD
810.07 MB
640*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Avwillfan89 5 / 10

Animal Farm is NOT a children's film

I really do wish people would get that into their heads. Just because it's about barnyard animals with no sex or adult language, doesn't mean that's necessarily for kids. It's, as many people well know, a metaphor for the atrocities of the Soviet Union under Stalin. It's bleak, nasty and upsetting, but it speaks the truth on the hypocrisy of leaderships, corruption and fascism.And yet they decide to portray the story as though it's a children's film, with live action talking animals, with a special lighting to make it look child-like and family friendly. No! This is not what George Orwell's tale is about. The book is extremely depressing, but in this film, and especially the ending, they made it look like the things that happened were no big deal.It's true that in real life, Stalin's regime collapsed on itself, "a victim of its own malice" in the end, but it would have been better if it wasn't depicted in the movie. Jesse, the sheepdog, serves as a narrator, and seems to predict and see through the evils of Napoleon, and yet does nothing about it. All the animals in the book apart from the pigs could not see what was going on due their myopia and little intelligence. And the violence was also very subdued.If another adaptation should be done, it should be more gritty and truer to the novel, and to get the point the Orwell was intending point out.
Reviewed by Danimal-7 5 / 10

Hamfisted delivery, lack of focus on the animals, sloppy ending destroy some good effects

Reviewed by earnail 5 / 10

Misses the point of Animal Farm

I was disappointed to find that this version of Animal Farm completely fails to convey the fundamental message of Animal Farm. George Orwell's novel is about the deception, the cruelty, and the hypocrisy of the pigs' control of the farm. The reason it is such a good book is that it shows the reader how the situations slides from a seemingly democratic revolution to a bloody tyranny. The 1954 animation of Animal Farm portrays this excellently; the scene where Boxer is carried away is often mentioned as being absolutely heart-wrenching. However, in the new edition, I remember trying to feel the same abhorrent turmoil but finding that it just wasn't there. The story seems to be told as if it were from a children's adventure book. It most certainly is not. Admirable filming with real animals counts for nothing when the whole reason for being of the story is not expressed. If you want to experience the sheer force of the story of Animal Farm, watch the old version.
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