A group of farm animals rise up against their neglectful owner, dreaming of equality and freedom. But as the pigs take control, the revolution turns into tyranny, with truth rewritten and dissent crushed.
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Film Cast:
- Napoleon (voice): Seth Rogen
- Lucky (voice): Gaten Matarazzo
- Mr. Whymper (voice): Steve Buscemi
- Frieda Pilkington (voice): Glenn Close
- Snowball (voice): Laverne Cox
- Squealer (voice): Kieran Culkin
- Boxer (voice): Woody Harrelson
- Carl / Sheep (voice): Jim Parsons
- Randolf the Rooster (voice): Andy Serkis
- Benjamin (voice): Kathleen Turner
- Puff / Tammy (voice): Iman Vellani
- Additional Voices (voice): Lyra Abrahamson
- Additional Voices (voice): Victoria Ardoin
- Additional Voices (voice): Melli Bond
- Additional Voices (voice): Peter Brooke
- Additional Voices (voice): Kelly Burke
- Additional Voices (voice): Matthew Chong
- Additional Voices (voice): Elijah Isaiah Cook
- Additional Voices (voice): Zachary Gradek
- Additional Voices (voice): Adaeze Ifeyinwa
- Additional Voices (voice): Jane Jackson
- Additional Voices (voice): Aislinn Kardos
- Additional Voices (voice): Laurel Lefkow
- Additional Voices (voice): Eric Loren
- Additional Voices (voice): Amélie Lou Marandola
- Additional Voices (voice): Eric Meyers
- Additional Voices (voice): Larissa Murray
- Additional Voices (voice): Christopher Ragland
- Additional Voices (voice): Matt Rippy
- Additional Voices (voice): John Schwab
- Additional Voices (voice): Jennifer Woodward
- Additional Voices (voice): Jared Zeus
Film Crew:
- Writer: Nicholas Stoller
- Producer: Dave Rosenbaum
- Producer: Adam Nagle
- Novel: George Orwell
- Producer: Jonathan Cavendish
- Director: Andy Serkis
- Executive Producer: John Blas
- Executive Producer: Phil Brown
- Executive Producer: Joe Della Rosa
- Executive Producer: Richard Hodsden
- Executive Producer: Ollie McGovern
- Executive Producer: Hans Oerlemans
- Executive Producer: Duncan Rodger
- Associate Producer: Marc Salouze
- Associate Producer: Catherine Slater
- Editor: Kevin Pavlovic
- Production Design: Amos Sussigan
- Executive Producer: Eamonn Butler
- Animation Director: Alex Parkinson
- Casting: Margery Simkin
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dillon Bennett
- Sound Effects Editor: Grace Averbuch
- Assistant Sound Editor: Sean Miller
- Supervising Dialogue Editor: Adam Horley
- Sound Effects Editor: Matt Waites
- Dialogue Editor: James White
- Producer: David Rosenbaum
- Executive Producer: Woody Harrelson
- Executive Producer: Matt Reeves
- Producer: Connie Nartonis Thompson
- Original Music Composer: Heitor Pereira
- Music Supervisor: Laura Katz
- Post Production Supervisor: Gisela Evert
- Music Editor: Yann McCullough
- Lighting Artist: Valerie Constant
- Producer: Peter Nagle
- Executive Producer: Philip J. Brown
- Executive Producer: Ivan Epstein
- Executive Producer: Rob Thielen
- Executive Producer: Antony Hunt
- Executive Producer: Larry Taube
- Executive Producer: Phil Robertson
- Executive Producer: Will Tennant
- Executive Producer: Rafi Crohn
- Associate Editor: Duncan Rochfort
- Character Designer: Peter de Sève
- Animation Supervisor: Ryan Schaller
- VFX Supervisor: Mark Theriault
- Executive Producer: Jean-François Tremblay
- Additional Storyboarding: Dick Zondag
- Additional Storyboarding: Ralph Zondag
- Additional Storyboarding: Cory Toomey
- Additional Storyboarding: Desirae Witte
- Additional Storyboarding: Vanessa Lalonde-Deguire
- Additional Storyboarding: Michelle Ku
- Additional Storyboarding: Don Kim
- Additional Storyboarding: Michele Assarasakorn
- Head of Story: Adam Temple
- Storyboard Artist: James Bourne
- Storyboard Artist: Marc Dubois
- Storyboard Artist: Steven Go
- Storyboard Artist: Grant Harris
- Storyboard Artist: Satjit Matharu
- Storyboard Artist: Oliver Merlo
- Character Designer: Huguette Pizzic
Movie Reviews:
- Sierbahnn: This is certainly one interpretation.
It absolutely is not the best interpretation of this work. While it captures the corruption of the pigs, it does nothing to further the actual ideas presented in the original work. And I don’t think that was accidental. It’s a shame that a story which is so important gets mismanaged in its popular representation, so that a new generation that watches it does not understand why it is so important. - CinemaSerf: Now I’m not sure we really needed another adaptation of Orwell’s timeless critique on the pig-eat-pig world of animal hierarchies, but Andy Serkis clearly thought we did. The farmer has been forced into bankruptcy by the avaricious “Miss Pilkington” who wants his land, but luckily “Snowball” notices that the lorry purportedly taking them on a vacation isn’t actually heading to the laughterhouse – but there is an extra “s” which they hadn’t quite clocked. Alarmed, the horses, cows, sheep, chicks and aforementioned porcines leap back to safety and now without their human master conclude that they do not need people at all. Of course, they do need rules if they are to run their farm and those are carefully painted on the water tower acclaiming their equalities and rights, but an early realisation that they could do with electricity causes a bit of individual thinking that “Napoleon” and his sheepish followers see an an act of independence too far! Might this spell the end of their liberté, egalité and fraternité culture? There’s quite a scathing analysis of the human need for leadership depicted here, and as far as this goes it showcases not just the desire of some to govern and some to be ruled, but also of the effects of the evils of capitalism – as depicted by the space-age “Pilkington” as a catalyst for greed and ambition. This one tells that story adequately if hardly innovatively, and the personalisations of the characters with traits more readily associated with their (banned) two legged creatures – though where does that leave the rooster – work fine as the “some are more equal than others” elements creep in. It’s all perfectly watchable, there are no songs to clutter things up and the message of the original novel is well delivered to what might be some new eyes and ears. You’re highly unlikely to ever recall this, but it’s a competent effort from all.