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An outstanding achievement for award-winning animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor, this landmark adaptation brilliantly conveys the horror and humour of George Orwell's scathing satire. Inspired by the dream of Old Major, a prize boar, the overworked animals of Manor Farm rise up against their negligent, drunken owner and drive him out. Led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they establish their own self-sufficient farm, but as the farm flourishes it begins to slide into dictatorship. (Network)
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The filmmakers wrung everything from Orwell's legendary chilling allegorical fable that made it good, and what remains is a smelly patchwork that doesn't even provide any of its own ideas in addition to the alarming ones. It's as if someone wrote the script by making marks in the book and blacking out what was essential. Comparing paper to celluloid is never really fair, but this is a barbaric rape that asks for the audience’s intolerance quite bluntly, and the ending definitely confirms it.
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Well, I wasn't too thrilled with it. Granted, I haven't read the book, but clearly it must be better... Maybe it's the fact that something like this is cartoonish, maybe it's the fact that I read 1984 by Orwell and kept thinking about that other story while watching this one, but this just didn't really engage me, grab me, or leave anything in me. A weak 3 stars. Too bad, because I was quite curious and excited.
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Both the book and animated film are excellent. It is a classic that will not be surpassed even by the most modern animated family films from Pixar'. Overall impression: 90%. A satirical allegory about how revolutions quickly rot and former revolutionaries can easily become new masters.
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Beautifully and frighteningly staged at the same time, the issue of despotism, which this time is transported into the animal world, has not lost its authenticity. This is certainly no walk in the park for the youngest viewers, but a cruel and true picture of society past, present and perhaps even future. In short, a not-so-happy story that is definitely worth watching. "Four legs good! Two legs bad!" - a solid 4* for me personally.
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The premise of this film is extremely chilling, so one might have expected the tone to change a little, but thankfully only a little. Still, it's bearable. Animal Farm remains a haunting and breathtaking fable that shows the importance of power in our society like little else ever written or filmed.
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