Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

jakmanuk99 I love the book and it may even be one of the best books I've ever read with complex characters and a interesting storyline that becomes even greater when you remember that it's a satire on the Russian Revolution. This captures none of that, focusing on Jessie (A character that plays no part except for giving birth to Napoleon's bodyguards) and while I don't like that, it is quite interesting as the book is told from the point of view of the animals. The ending is completely changed which also changes the whole meaning of the story that the government always becomes corrupt with the workers rebelling but soon becoming the same corrupt government that they had despised. The whole film feels rushed and wouldn't if they didn't dedicate around 60% of the film to the humans who have nothing interesting but to make fun of Mr Jones with their painful accents. There are so many moments where I actually burst out laughing at how badly made it is, that it's actually quite depressing. I was further shocked to learn that it had stars like Kelsey Grammar and Patrick Stewart in it! I bet they regret that now. The death of Boxer feels rushed to hell, it should be sad and disorientating, instead it's funny. I know it's going to be near impossible to capture the Orwellian feel to it, but they could have tried. This film is a joke to the film industry. Going with the whole metaphor, if this film was an animal, I'd put it down. Seeing the animals speak with the horrendously obvious CGI is excruciatingly painful and don't get me started on how bad the pigs look. To conclude, this film is awful. If you liked the book, avoid this film. If you loved the book, AVOID THIS FILM. The film's only good quality is that you can joke about it with friends

Petri Pelkonen The animals start rebelling against farmer Jones and drive him off the farm.The result is an animal farm, a farm led by animals.Animal Farm (1999) is a TV movie directed by John Stephenson.I read George Orwell's original novel from 1945 not too long time ago.This movie I found on a VHS from the library.It has some great voice acting.Kelsey Grammar is the voice of Snowball.Patrick Stewart is Napoleon.Ian Holm is Squealer.Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Mollie.Julia Ormond is Jessie.Paul Scofield is Boxer.Peter Ustinov is Old Major.The late great Pete Postlethwaite is Benjamin.You can also see him as Farmer Jones.The movie's not such a great failure.It may be, if you make too many comparisons between the book and the movie.Orwell's novel is a classic, and this is a so-so movie made of that book.But the movie does have something good.Like Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill was used in a nice way in the end.And Boxer's fate touches you also in the movie, as it did in the book.

david-bacon I actually started to like orwell watching this movie. I was still a bit young (14), but had always liked history, so the picture was appealing. When I watched it, the message was very clear and despite later I formulated my own ideas about communism, it showed me the difference about this system and a dictatorship disguised. Was a good adaptation and in my opinion, the end was a conclusion about what really happened in the real life. The fact that they go back to the human control is more like a trauma to what they remember about their "freedom" with Napoleon. People tend to run away from the more recent trauma, having short memory.

stefknet ... if you see it without blindfolds... if you see it just as it is, a fairy tale... just for kids... forget the story that supposed to be...If you take it serious like the most does, it is like a bad joke... Orwell have never been in USSR and what he knew about it was from stories that he heard from thirds... thirds like the traitors white Russians that escaped from Russia to england after Bolsheviks victorious revolution...So those stories were groundless and lies... After many years Orwell also proved to be a sting, that wrote down names of maybe communists, like Chaplin's and gave them at a semi secret British agency, so they could run them down... That was Orwell, just a big brother that put mad on the name of real heroes of the people, like comrade's Stalin...