'Animal Farm' Review: What the Cluck Was Andy Serkis Thinking?

'Animal Farm' Review: What the Cluck Was Andy Serkis Thinking?

In my review of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” I said that if her horny, problematic film were a book report, there would have been an uncomfortable parent-teacher conference afterward. But I still think she could have passed the class. I’m not sure about Andy Serkis. His adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” plays like he skipped the book and watched a bad movie with all-new characters and a Hollywood-friendly, mega-happy ending. …

‘Animal Farm’ 2026: An oversimplified, yet entertaining, adaptation of the Orwell classic

A “fun” fact about the 1954 film Animal Farm, based on the novel by George Orwell, is that it was funded by the CIA (the same was true of the later screen adaptation of his 1984).

Andy Serkis defends his beleaguered Animal Farm movie: 'exactly what Orwell would have wanted'

The first responses to Andy Serkis' star-packed animated re-imagining of George Orwell's classic 1945 novel Animal Farm are in, and there's a notable trend to them. The reviews aren't all bad: A handful of writers at various outlets seem to be pretty okay with the updates Serkis and writer Nicholas Stoller made to Orwell's totalitarian allegory, including a rap sequence, flashy sci-fi technology, an egregiously exaggerated fart joke, and a much …

Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm softens George Orwell’s satire

Film and TV Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm softens the blow of Orwell’s satire Animal Farm is out in US cinemas from 1 May. Film still courtesy of Angel Studios Despite some sacrifices of the novel’s bite, this animated adaptation contains clear echoes of a contemporary political landscape in which belonging is conditional Leila LatifColumnist 24 April 2026 Few works by George Orwell have proved as persistently relevant as Animal Farm, a book that h…

Andy Serkis Movie Based On 81-Year-Old Dystopian Book Debuts To Underwhelming RT Score

Despite its classic source material and star-studded cast, Andy Serkis' new movie completely fails to impress critics ahead of theatrical release.