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‘Animal Farm’ drags Orwell’s classic novella through the slaughterhouse | Review
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‘Animal Farm’ drags Orwell’s classic novella through the slaughterhouse | Review

The Seattle Times·Mark Kennedy The Associated Press·about 1 month ago
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Movie review There are some early cues that the new animated “Animal Farm” is not your grandmother’s “Animal Farm.” Like when one critter asks, “What’s up?” and another says, “Totally rad.” Did George Orwell really have one of his pigs scream, “Check it before you wreck it”? I don’t want to get all prudish here; I’m all for reinventions and reintroductions. But screenwriter Nicholas Stoller and director Andy Serkis’ awfully misguided Disneyfication of one of the greatest allegorical satires in the English language is a cinematic car crash. It’s an adaptation for the “PAW Patrol” set made by filmmakers with the movie equivalent of baseball caps worn backward. They should have checked it before they wrecked it. RECENT MOVIE REVIEWS Stoller hasn’t made just demure alterations to Orwell’s 1940s novella, he’s dragged it through an abattoir, changing small things (a windmill becomes a water mill) to large (a new main character, the piglet Lucky).…

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