Animal Farm

1999 "Four legs good. Two legs bad."
6| 1h31m| en
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Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
mayarosealex Animal Farm, directed by John Stephenson, and released in 1999, was based on a book called Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animal Farm, the film, is about book written to describe or set an example of Socialism and Communism. In the beginning of the book, Old Major, the old pig, begins the idea of a rebellion, and dies peacefully later. In the movie, Old Major, voiced by Peter Ustinov, after spreading news of the rebellion is shot by Farmer Jones, acted by Jer O'Leary. Throughout the movie and book, many evils are faced and in the ending of the book, the pigs basically turn into men and the animals are faced with slavery. In the movie, it ends when Clover, Jessie, and several of the other animals run away and come back after Napoleon, voiced by Patrick Stewart, the main antagonist, dies. Throughout the movie, there are multiple life changing choices made by the pigs to further confuse and take advantage of the stupid animals. Most of the plot follows the book, but there are quite a few additions. Besides the major ending change, the biggest and worst change was the "relationship" between Mr. Jones and Mrs. Pilkington. This was added very early on when Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Jones have a "get together" which ends up with Mr. Pilkington getting very drunk and falling asleep. Later, when Mr. Jones goes to his room, Mrs. Pilkington is in his bed. An extremely unnecessary, disturbing, and pointless sexual encounter ensues. This was very wrong to add considering it nearly ruins a film on a very powerful book. Another example is that Old Major is not shot, nor is his skull placed on display. Most importantly, the endings of the book and movie are drastically different considering the fact that the book ends very sadly, and the movie ends with hope. Also, the "traitors" who helped Snowball weren't hung, they had their throats ripped out. It's quite different. Even though that would have been very gory, it doesn't follow the book. Another example is when the pigs used the TV as a distraction and a way to film commercials instead of meetings. This is completely illogical even if it did happen in the book. Would a barn really have electric outlets? Or would pigs know how to film commercials, add music, and captions, and then put them on a TV? No, of course not. They don't even have thumbs. This was clearly just another badly thought out addition to the movie. The movie would have been better off sticking to the books plot and actual themes. Overall, Animal Farm, the film did not stick to the books plot, and added illogical, and even sexual content to the film which distracted and even ruined the books focus on Communism and Socialism. Animal Farm actors and actresses all acted very well, and the voiceover's sounded on top and matched the animal animation. The film quality was a bit blurry, but for a 1999 film it was decent. The animal mouth movements were cheesy, but effective.
destroyyourevil I read the book for English class and studied the themes and meanings. By the time, we were done the questions for the book, we watched the movie. Hell, it was a lot worse than the book.The voice cast features Patrick Stewart and Kelsey Grammar, and that was the only good thing. The rest was just crap.The movie was nothing like the book. There was no Clover or Mr. Whymper. It was Jessie who told the story and questioned how things should be. It was also ridiculous how overtime, the men started to understand Napoleon. There were a couple of other ridiculous things--Napoleon wore a suit, animals actually got distracted by the television, actually seeing Squealer's writing with the paint. Too much was cut out too.The ending was bad too. It just made no sense. Even if it leads to the viewer's imagination, it just wasn't real. In fact, nothing from the movie felt real. The movie fails to catch attention.So, if you want an excuse to vomit and get sick, watch this movie. It will do you good for missing something else you'd hate.
palexandersquires This film, is just like the book, that I studied at my school, with a group of us. I feel for the animals, yes we do take all their food and milk. and I liked all the voices provided by top actors and actresses. this is what happens when companies take over small businesses, they become like Napolean and the other pigs. in the book, the animals sing beasts of England and beasts of Ireland in the oh my darling Clementine tune, the film version was different. I felt for Jessie the dog when they took away her pups. This I Thought wears unfair. If I'd been an animal on this film, I would of been the farmer's cat and I would of said to the pigs, "How dare you take away those little pups" just you try and take away my kittens, I'll scratch your eyes out" I would give those pigs what for! this DVD lasts 90 minutes, and contains no extras or subtitles, but is not bad for £1 at my local supermarket. I'm going to giver this adaption 10/10 but it fails on the fact that the DVD contains no extras. this does not alter my ratings, as I enjoyed the story. yes the film did follow the book, but the song was changed slightly. How do businesses become like the pigs? the answer is, they make all the decisions for the companies, leaving the small company bosses powerless to control the company. in other words they become greedy! hence the phrase fat cats or in this case fat pigs!
hungrystone Animal Farm (1999) was a larger budget movie for the Orwell classic Animal Farm. The movie sticks closely to the idea of the book, (the rise of communism), while making it accessible to a wide variety of audience, although the ending was really, well, "happy". But let's face it. No one wants to spend 10 dollars just to feel depressed unless they're die-hard Orwell fans, so the producers didn't really have a choice but to make it accessible if they were going to create a big budget movie. A good movie, but if your a die-hard classic stickler and you would rather have a low-budget Animal Farm movie which sticks more to the original, go for the older version.