George Orwell Had a unique talent for predicting The Future in His Books, Notably 1984But now Seeing Director Andy Serkis’ New Animated Take on Orwell’s 1945 All-too -redicive Allegory and Satirical Story, Animal farmhe seems more like a nostradamus than Ever. With a Screenplay, alternately funny and frightene perceptive by nicholas stoller, this gorgeously animated version is not outwardly trying to be political but nevertheless is uncannily Meeting its and proving to be a little too close for america.
HOW DID ORWELL KNOW THIS LITTLE PARABLE HE MEANT TO MIRROR The 1917 Russian Revolution, Read by School Kids for Decades, Could Become SO relevant in 2025, and for that matter how they have been filmmakers and Serkis KNOW? He started his queue to bring this new version to the Screen at Least As Far Back to 2013, Three Years before Donald Trump was elected for his first term, and full eleven years before he retourned to finish the jab he started. But actually, The ScCcenario Animal farm Paints has relevance for counries around the world who are experiencing these Kinds of dictator-Wannabes. Beware this is a ‘toon with mech to think – and to Fear. And oh yeah, it is Also wildly entertaining. Animal farm HAD Its World Premiere Today at the Annecy Animation Festival in France.
You invaribly Know the story. A Farm Run by Farmer Jones is Basically Going Under, Debits Coming to Collect and No Way to Keep It Solvent. A Big Truck Comes to Pick up the Animals and Carts say off to oblivion one of the sayball, snowball (Nelly voiced by laundry cox) figures out what is happy and tourns creating an animal rebellion and leading to this motley legged Crew Actual Taching Over and Running the Farm eslves. Man, as the opening narration suggests, had not treated say Well. Now it is ther turn. Joined by Well-Meaning Piglet Lucky (Stranger Thing’s GAYT MATERAZZO) They Lead the Others Into Some Mischievous Adventures with their New Found Freedom, Learning How to Run what Only Had done before, Particularly Milking the Cows – No Easy Task. But what SEEMS LIKE A Good idea in tachying over the farm begins to show it seams, especialy with the self-centered and manipulative other leading, napoleon (unmistakably set) trying to pull the strings in the background. He Makes his Big Move After the Discovery That Snowball and Lucky Have Secretly Been Working on a Windmill to Generate Electricity in Order to Solve the Milking Problem, A Turn of Events Down and Leads to the Banishment of Snowl.
Now it is free reign for napoleon to try to seize power, and in concert with the dogs he just that. But this is an authorian personality who is out only for the himself and his actions are all in that queue. He starts to figuratively burn the place Down, break every previous rule, and urge the Animals to Eat all the stored grain, not worrying about hating enough in the futures. When the farm is again threatened, napoleon and the pigs come up with a marketing idea and it goes over big as they all go and start indulging in human-like luxuries like before. Enter Frieda Pilkington (Glenn Close in Her Best Cruel Mode), A billionaire rival farm owner who sees an opportunity and a naive foil in napoleon, who she butters up big time, Him being oblivious to her real motivation: the building dams that ulttely the Farm, Event Napoleon’s Dark Side is Willing to Take What He Sees As True Glory at the Cost of Everyone Else with the Dam Plan. When one pig, puff (iman vellani) Starts to Sense Trouble IT PUTS LUCKY BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. WHICH WAY DOES he and how will they all survive?
EACH Character is so Drawn and Voiced SO SPECIFICALLY THIS Animal farm Really does Become a microcosm of society with rogen’s duplicity napoleon the Classic case of someone consumed with the Narcissism (Remind You of anyone?). Matarazzo’s Lucky is the protagonist but one increasingly confused by events. Along the way there are oters like the free-thinking carl the sheep (Jim parsons), Cranky Benjamin (Kathleen Turner), Squirly Squaller (Kieran Culkin), and More, Including Boxer (Beautiful Voiced by Woody Harrels) Upstanding horses who Heartbreakingly Will Ultimately Become a Victim of this New Pig-Led Government. Serkis, of Course, Can’t Resist Playing A Couple of Parts Himself and Takes on the Affable Rooster and Farmer Jones. You Also Can’t Watch this Movie and the Dynamics BetWene Animals and Humans and Not Think of What Serkis, As an Actor, Brought to the Planet of the apes Series as Caesar.
The visuals of the film are meticulously thought out, and thiugh not Photo real have that look and design of authenticity in cgi animated form. The Score by Brazilian Composer Hector Pereira is Right on Point and the USE of Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey’s Collaboration on “History Repeating” is a Not-So-Subtle Comment, But Perfectly-Used Song to Reinforce What Sadly Happens Aimal Brigade The Farm Human Operation and Start Falling Into The Same Traps. History Repeating ITSELF indeed.
Although this May Not Quite Sound Like Safe Fare for the Kiddies, this is that rare Animated Feature that works on most levels and thus will find favor with the family for different reasons. Animation or not, it looks to me to be one of the most important films of the year. Heed what Orwell is talking about it bell it all comes tumbling down.
Producers of the ship, cinsite, Imaginarium Production are Serkis, Adam Nagle, David Rosenbaum, Peter Nagle, Jonathan Cavendish. Eamonn Butler is Associate Director for Animation and Alex Parkinson is Associate Director for CGI.
Title: Animal farm
Festival: Annecy
Director: Andy Serkis
Screenplay: Nicholas stoller
Cast: Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Laverne Cox, Iman Vellani, Kieran Culkin, Jim Parsons, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Andy Serkis, Kathleen Turner
TIME RUNNING: 1 hour and 36 minutes