# A new animated Animal Farm movie is coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 14, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682 "2025-12-14T06:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/1 "2025-12-14T06:58:30Z")
There’s a new adaptation of **Animal Farm** coming, directed by Andy Serkis. I read it in High School and I must say I did not imagine it like this. Brace yourselves. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/g8wLmj9SiKM/maxresdefault.jpg "Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wLmj9SiKM) ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/2 "2025-12-14T07:38:36Z")
If memory serves from my school days, the cartoon version completely changed the ending from the book, which utterly missed the point. Hopefully this won’t do the same? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/3 "2025-12-14T07:44:59Z")
I don’t think I’ve seen Hollywood completely miss the point of the source material this badly since that Lorax movie with Danny DeVito and Taylor Swift that turned the Onceler into a twink. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ozfGeGYe-lY/maxresdefault.jpg "Futurama - "That was so terrible I think You gave me cancer!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozfGeGYe-lY) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/4 "2025-12-14T08:41:24Z")
What’s wrong with turning a cautionary tale about a dictatorship, especially today, into a comedy? I mean besides _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/5 "2025-12-14T09:07:56Z")
Some of the comments about the trailer on Bluesky are simply works of art. > **[Bea H. (@beabean.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/beabean.bsky.social/post/3m7tcd36vl22a)** > > The audience inside the theater looked from pig to tumblr sexyman, and from sexyman to pig, and from pig to sexyman again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. > **[Nova 🦨🔒 (@digitanuki.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/digitanuki.bsky.social/post/3m7tf4hmqlc2o)** > > How is it that the 1954 movie which was literally funded by the CIA and deliberately removed all the nuance to turn it into anticommunist agitprop \*still\* feels truer to the text than this garbage? This is dire. > **[@samkeeper.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/samkeeper.bsky.social/post/3m7tf23umcs2t)** > > \[jack black playing an alpaca or something\] we gotta have a CULTURAL revolution, my dudes! RADICAL! \[starts shredding on a guitar, there's a musical number &c\] > **[sarah zedig 🐐 (@hmsnofun.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/hmsnofun.bsky.social/post/3m7tcal2vps24)** > > THEY'RE ONCELER-IFYING ANIMAL FARM > > \[contains quote post or other embedded content\] > **[Jim Has Fun (@jimhasfun.wnyrpg.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/jimhasfun.wnyrpg.com/post/3m7usppgnek2z)** > > Can't wait for the wacky, off-the-wall, zany adaptations of Maus and Watership Down. > **[Quantum Hamologist (@quantumham.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/quantumham.bsky.social/post/3m7utbc6s4c2z)** > > \*record scratch, freeze frame on a goofy anthropomorphic cockroach face\* Yep, that's me, Gregor Samsa. You're probably wondering how I got here. \*cue Baba O'Riley\* > **[Evil Orb (@janipeippo.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/janipeippo.bsky.social/post/3m7uymsfjts2h)** > > "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Then everybody had a dance party to the tune of Uptown Funk." > **[Hawkatana (@hawkatana.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/hawkatana.bsky.social/post/3m7ugqqwru224)** > > We're so cooked at this point that I wouldn't be surprised if Anne Frank became playable in Fortnite. > **[Till Geske (@oneonion.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/oneonion.bsky.social/post/3m7uw3f2ygc2c)** > > I have to be honest, that's the funniest shit I've seen in a while. > > "Based on the the masterpiece by George Orwell" > \*Feel it still by Portugal the Man starts playing\* > **[Spencer Green (@spencergreen.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/spencergreen.bsky.social/post/3m7upzcyuys24)** > > Waiting for the Lin-Manuel Miranda theme "The Windmill Where It Happens." > **[Sky (he/them)🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🍉🇺🇦 (@clearsky06.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/clearsky06.bsky.social/post/3m7v2jgzvr22e)** > > Oh, to be a fly on the wall of classrooms where students have to watch this movie and read the book and compare the two. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/6 "2025-12-14T13:26:48Z")
I’ll wait until it actually comes out and I or a reviewer I trust has actually seen it to form an opinion. I hope the marketing is just part of a plan to ultimately subvert expectations. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/7 "2025-12-14T14:47:47Z")
Maybe I’m weird, but I like the idea of it. The absurdity of turning this book into what it seems to be is hilarious to me. It’s such an awful idea it turns around to make me laugh, mocking itself. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/8 "2025-12-14T19:03:44Z")
In the 2025 version does Napoleon the pig just go “yeah I’m going to take your food and hang out with the humans cos they are awesome, but don’t worry I’ll make life really crappy for the goats!” right from the start. And the other animals just shrug and go “sounds good, the alternative is a sheep!” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/9 "2025-12-14T21:52:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I don’t think I’ve seen Hollywood completely miss the point of the source material - gasp \* I hear Pharrell Williams doing the soundtrack. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/10 "2025-12-14T23:16:18Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I hear Pharrell Williams doing the soundtrack. That was Portugal The Man, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/11 "2025-12-14T23:52:10Z")
If he can work in a song like “Happy!” this movie will not be so despicable. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/12 "2025-12-15T23:22:53Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Maybe I’m weird, but I like the idea of it. The absurdity of turning this book into what it seems to be is hilarious to me. It’s such an awful idea it turns around to make me laugh, mocking itself. You know, if this is a movie where the plot - which echoes here and now ever so much - is subverted by the pluto- and technocrats get their asses kicked, and a bunch of kids see that…I might be okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/13 "2025-12-15T23:30:36Z")
I’m sympathetic to the idea that, in 2025, we need to make the bad guys actually lose. Not just for kids, even. Just make it so fucking blatant that it is bad, or else the message will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/14 "2026-04-22T19:55:12Z")
Early reviews are… unflattering. > **[Andy Serkis' Animal Farm Is an Abomination: Review](https://consequence.net/2026/04/animal-farm-review-andy-serkis-seth-rogen/)** > > The animated George Orwell adaptation is a tonal nightmare featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, and more. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/15 "2026-04-22T22:08:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Animal Farm Review: Andy Serkis Adaptation Is an Abomination](https://consequence.net/2026/04/animal-farm-review-andy-serkis-seth-rogen/) > > > [@](#): > > > > […] the theatrical ticket that comes with a special bottle of Boxer’s Workhorse Glue, adorned with a picture of the character voiced by Woody Harrelson with the caption “Gives 110%. Receives 0%.” 😵‍💫 Just… I mean… Come on. This has got to be the clue that **the project as a whole** is just some kind of layered subversive Bulgakovian satirical meta-hoax, right?? The “comedy” is actually _the entire phenomenon of the film’s production and distribution_. Surely nobody could be in earnest about trying to present this movie “straight” as zany kiddie fun, with enough winking wisecrackery to make it palatable to adults, _Shrek_-style. …Surely? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/16 "2026-04-23T00:31:10Z")
> **[Animal Farm's creative bankruptcy is summed in a single song](https://www.avclub.com/animal-farm-andy-serkis-barnyard-rap-opening-song)** > > All you need to know about Andy Serkis' absurd adaptation of Animal Farm is that it starts with a barnyard rap. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/17 "2026-05-09T21:54:26Z")
Might as well recall… > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’ll wait until it actually comes out and I or a reviewer I trust has actually seen it to form an opinion Now I’m curious, any luck with that yet? Meanwhile Rotten Tomatos has it at 26% from the critics. — BTW, the distributor is Angel Studios, known for releasing _Sound of Freedom_ , for getting into tiffs with the producers of the properties they distribute, and for being a major promoter of the practice of encouraging audiences to buy future ticket blocks to give away. (So far though box office only $3.4 million in first weekend, $4.5 million in first full week.) So, yeah, sounds pretty hopeless. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/18 "2026-05-11T23:39:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Early reviews are… unflattering. I believe the word the critics are looking for is “desecration” > **[Desecration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desecration)** > > Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful, contemptuous, or destructive treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual. > Many consider acts of desecration to be sacrilegious acts. This can include desecration of sacred books, sacred places or sacred objects. Desecration generally may be considered from the perspective of a particular religion or spiritual activity. Desecration may be applied to natural systems or com... ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-animated-animal-farm-movie-is-coming/1025682/19 "2026-05-13T21:27:56Z")
Abomination; desecration. Sounds right. (My first thought was “travesty.”) Utterly subverting Orwell’s message about the way people cooperate in their own exploitation, persuaded by lying propaganda, is **not** what the world needs now. I’m very disappointed in everyone involved. It’s as though they were all Squealer.