Animal Farm

While it may struggle to satisfy diehard Orwell purists, the film still takes a political stance and delivers an emphatic message celebrating equality and the power of the collective – albeit one which permits us a little more hope than was present in Orwell’s 1945 novella.

The message feels muddled amid all the pratfalls and fart jokes.

There’s too much effort, too much time, and too much sincerity apparent behind this film to dismiss it outright. That’s what makes it frustrating, and maybe even tragic.

The tonal disconnect between the subtext and the delivery leaves this Animal Farm wobbling like the first time Napoleon tries to walk on two legs.

The problem isn’t that the new 'Animal Farm' is unfaithful, it’s that the changes aren’t an improvement.

Much of this roams pretty far from Orwell’s vision, but that’s not the reason the film fails. It fails because it’s obvious, witless and dull. The animation is charmless and bland.

Put down Orwell’s book and you’ll shiver, convinced to redouble your efforts to protect civil society, stand for dignity and fight for the rule of law. Walk out of this new animated movie and you’ll likely just want to inhale more M&Ms. And fart.

Angel Studios never should have greenlit this. What were they thinking? They're a "family values company" who approved this commie piece of slop. You've made your bed, Angel Studios. Go lie in your mud puddle.

"I just got out of the new Animal Farm movie, and I am sorry to say Angel Studios has an Abject Disaster on their hands. This is not a movie you want to take your children to see. During the film, it's obvious the filmmakers weren't sure how to navigate deep philosophical ideals while making it appealing to children. They clearly want to capitalize on George Orwell's 1945 story Animal Farm for brand awareness and to drive kids into the theater, but the problem is this is not a children's story. They instead take a satire on the Communist Revolution and turn it into a warning on Capitalism and Consumerism where the actual final message is "True Freedom is working hard for your friends." Like the adapted story they wrote, that statement also makes no sense. The creators would have been better off shedding the Animal Farm name and writing something made for kids from the start...

it’s just.. so NOT peak… this isn’t even close to peak, it’s not adjacent to peak, it’s not on the same continent as peak. “peak” doesn’t apply here the way temperature doesn’t apply to a black hole. there’s no scale where this even registers as an attempt at elevation.this is not a dip from greatness. it’s not a stumble. it’s not a misstep. it’s a structural absence of anything that could ever become peak in any timeline, universe, or hypothetical simulation. if peak is a mountain, this isn’t the valley below it—it’s the geological collapse that erased the map **** feels less like a bad movie and more like a warning sign that something went wrong at the conceptual stage. like someone tried to build cinema but accidentally built a void instead, and then still decided to project it at full volume.there is no “almost” here. no “could’ve been.” no “had potential.” those words don’t even reach it. they get absorbed before impact, like they never existed. even failure feels too structured, too dignified a term for what this is. failure implies an attempt. this is what happens when attempt itself gets lost in **** don’t watch it and think “this is not peak.” you watch it and realize peak has been legally evicted from the conversation. like it packed its things and left the building the moment this thing started rolling.every second reinforces it. not peak. not even anti-peak in a dramatic way—just a flat, endless absence where quality concepts go to stop existing. it doesn’t climb down from anything. it simply exists below the idea of climbing at **** somehow, the more you sit with it, the more “not peak” starts to feel like an understatement too generous to survive contact with what this actually is.

This is not a faithful adaptation of Animal Farm. It is an abomination and has shaken my faith in Angel Studios.