Andy Serkis ’ Animal Farm , as those have watched will confirm , is a baffling abomination. One of the biggest issues survivors of the new animated movie have is the way it adds a happy ending to the historically bleak tale (tail?) of power corrupting — a choice Serkis defended in a new interview with USA Today . Without getting too deep into spoilers, this new Animal Farm covers the original plot of the George Orwell adaptation, then continues on with a new sequence in which the remaining “good” characters of the farm rise up against both their human and pig oppressors. For Serkis, this was a decision motivated by what he sees as “a world where there seemingly is no hope at the moment.” As he continued: “We keep making the same mistakes. There are oppressive regimes globally. There are bosses in companies that maltreat their workers globally. We’re living in such a difficult time.…