Animal Farm Review – Andy Serkis’ adaptation of Orwell’s murderous classic farm legend with sugar | Video

GGeorge Orwell’s Animal Farm is not a holy book. There is no rule that says it can’t be changed in the adaptation, especially if, say, you want to add history from the world that existed when the book was published in 1945. failure to change is the last fun dumb in the Disney style.

The most important moment when pigs and people look alike does not happen at the end, but around the one-hour stage in the 94-minute film, showing that a new third act is near. At first I was intrigued, wondering if there was a clever way to finish knocking down the farm wall. But no. The evil pig Napoleon (voiced by Seth Rogen and many a come, come!) gets rid of his nemesis Snowball (Laverne Cox), then spends money on fraud from a man who has just emerged from the underworld named Pilkington (Glenn Close) and goes to talk to his followers with the help of the giant Big Brother.

After Napoleon emerges from a group of rebellious animal boys, the farm is set on fire and when the rebels gather at the edge of many unknown waters, they think deeply about what they did wrong, and admit that they should not have trusted their leader like Napoleon. (So ​​apparently something was wrong with Snowball too, but it’s not clear. No sense of Trotskyism here.) What’s the point of making a new version of Animal Farm if you take away the anger, the satire, the passion and the meaning?