Published Apr 23, 2026, 2:57 PM EDT Many reviews of Serkis' animated rewrite of George Orwell's bleak classic have been brutal. Serkis remains unfazed. Andy Serkis defends his beleaguered Animal Farm movie: 'exactly what Orwell would have wanted' image: Angel Studios 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 happier ending.…