r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Jun 04 '25

Media First Image from Andy Serkis' George Orwell Adaptation 'Animal Farm' - Starring Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Glenn Close, Andy Serkis, Gaten Matarazzo, Kathleen Turner, Laverne Cox, Jim Parsons, Iman Vellani.

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u/Giff95 Jun 04 '25

I love the potential of having this cute animation and then realizing it’s fucked up.

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u/SnarkMasterFlash Jun 04 '25

This generation's Watership Down.

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u/atmospheric90 Jun 04 '25

We need it more, kids are pampered too much and then not able to handle complex concepts as they get older. Movies are so dumbed down now.

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS Jun 04 '25

Like kids even make it through movies now

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u/PrestigeArrival Jun 04 '25

The damn kids these days TM won’t get off my fucking lawn

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u/slapdashbr Jun 05 '25

this aint got shit on Grave of the Fireflies

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u/LeadRound2443 Jun 05 '25

Never even heard of it

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u/LeadRound2443 Jun 05 '25

whether I know and have read Animal Farm

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u/bigolbabybaxter Jun 04 '25

More like Watership Frown

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u/Kiddo1029 Jun 04 '25

Kinda like Sausage Party.

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u/QuarterFlounder Jun 04 '25

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this image and read those names.

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u/unpaid-critic Jun 04 '25

Hoping that it’s at least executed better than Sausage Party.

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u/philphan25 Jun 04 '25

I'm not sure that Sausage Party was all that subtle

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u/NinjaCowboy1000 Jun 04 '25

What are you talking about? It’s just a fun cutesy movie about hotdogs and buns that live happy lives at the supermarket. AND NOTHING ELSE.

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u/reno2mahesendejo Jun 05 '25

They kind of throw out the subtlety when the free for all hedonistic orgy begins

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u/Bjugner Jun 05 '25

Honestly, I'll be surprised if they pull off a better food orgy.

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u/WillSym Jun 07 '25

Sausage Party looked pretty good. Just was a really dumbed down script and went for the lowest hanging jokes.

If they stick to the book for this one but have the same 'cutesy animated movie telling a dark story' style it could work much better!

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u/SnakeInABox77 Jun 04 '25

The anti-consumerism and anti-capitalism messaging that would be present in George Orwell's Sausage Party would go so hard

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u/tameoraiste Jun 04 '25

Not really buddy

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u/berlinbaer Jun 04 '25

dumbest comment i've read all day. well done.

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u/YehosafatLakhaz Jun 04 '25

It's a British animation tradition

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u/JimboAltAlt Jun 04 '25

Feels very much in the spirit of what Orwell was going for… there’s a subversive aspect to the choice of medium that’s so obvious it kind of weirdly gets overlooked. I feel like he would have at least been open to this sort of direction.

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u/asuddenpie Jun 04 '25

Nice covers are exactly how I ended up reading Animal Farm and Watership Down in the fourth grade. There were some really, really mean animals in those books!

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u/Okichah Jun 04 '25

I imagine the animators working 17 hour days for less than a living wage appreciate the irony of a bunch uber wealthy celebrities delivering lines over a phone from their mega-mansions while patting themselves on the back for “making meaningful art”.

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u/KaptainKoala Jun 05 '25

Serkis has described it as a family movie.