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i don't get it
I don't understand. How is it that so many people thought 1984 the movie was a masterpiece and yet they didn't give this great film the time of day. This movie is as good as 1984 (the movie) was bad. This is a perfect example of what communism really is, a good idea that could only work in a perfect world because hay, people (and animals apparently) are corrupt. Theirs a reason they say absolute power corrupts absolutely. People are selfish, and this is why communism must always fail, because people don't like to share and like being forced to share even less.
This is one hell of a movie. Not perfect, but way above the [...] fest of a movie 1984 was. If you love Gorge Orwell than get this movie


not that bad
I have read a number of reviews that are upset that the ending was too optimistic. But there is a reason for that. Remember that Animal Farm was at least partially based on the Soviet Union, and when this movie was made (1999) the soviet union had fallen and it looked as if we had new hope for a democratic russia under the leadership of borris yeltsin. So to have a more optimistic ending (that George Orwell would have never in a million years written) is not that bad of an idea and it follows russian history. But after 7 years we see that things are not that optimistic. Borris Yeltsin had to leave office because his alcholism made him unfit to rule a country (disturbingly like Mr. Jones). Now a former member of the KGB is in charge of russia. Furthermore the entire world is now starting to enter a war that seems to be unwinnable with goals that are at best ambigious and may very well be unachievable. Hmmm all of this is starting to remind me another Orwell book, that could be made into a bad TNT adaptation.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I remember that I enjoyed reading Animal Farm in high school. It is not the best book ever or even George Orwell's best, I prefer 1984 over Animal Farm. It is a good novella though. I recently saw TNT's version of Animal Farm and it was horrible. The plot is pretty true to Orwell's book, but it does have some changes that are ridiculous. The worst thing about this film is it's resemblence to Babe. If I had been flipping channels I would have thought it was Babe. That factor really brings down the film. The direction is nothing special. It's a T.V. movie people. The biggest name in the film is Kelsey Grammer from Fraiser who does Snowball's voice. There are no really good performances here. The soundtrack is not effective whatsoever. Overall, TNT's adaption of George Orwell's Animal Farm is a total failure.

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