I'm a huge Orwell fan and I can't believe how bad this adaptation is. The voice acting is the worst ever, the voice over narration is pathetic and they even changed the fantastic ending of the book. WHY? The animation is also incredibly dated and looks terrible. Luckily it's only like 70 minutes, which is sadly one of the only positives I can say about this abortion.

They completely butchered Orwell's brilliant novel.

Not even close to being half as good as the book. Shabby animation.

The narrative complexity doesn't match the thematic complexity, which makes the film feel a little heavy handed and trite. The animation is also not that great. Despite these shortcomings, it's pretty good film that relies heavily on the underlying story for its interesting content.

Good novel, Bad Film

It's interesting to see what they did with Orwell's novel. However, my interest could not be sustained for 70+ minutes. The cartoon focused so heavily on the anti-Stalin/communism parts of the novel, and barely touched on the other major themes. Plus, with the knowledge that the C.I.A. funded this, it just added to my dislike.

Some books should not be made into movies.

Perfect adaptation of Orwell's simple and timeless allegory.

I watched Animal Farm for the first time when I was a child, I did not quite get all the references. But in retrospect and after watching it when I was older, and it's good. However, it's clearly George Orwell's story that makes this good. I really should read the book sometime.

Is it just me or is the idea of a political allegory for children in really bad taste?

Fairly good adaptation

They niced up Orwell's book a little but this is still a marvelous piece of work

Odd how Orwell disaproved of the ending of the film, given what actually happened in Russia

Very creepy filum. @Moribunny I'm not sure that animated films are necessarily always aimed at children. Nor am I sure that children or indeed anybody is well served by insulating them from major life issues, and questions arising from attempts to deal with inequality . I certainly think that this political (with a small p) allegory is preferable to the covert establishment political message pushed by many animated films aimed at kids:- Beautiful=establishment=good, Ugly=prols=bad

Visually good, but very inferior to Orwell's novel.

Well done movie.

I love the deceptively childish animation. I hope lots of parents were tricked into playing this for their kids.

Pretty good, but I sure would've loved if it had stuck to the book a little bit more. Still, I can't disapprove of any adaptation of Orwell.

The animation's good, the backgrounds and color palette are beautiful, the music is brilliant. Too bad about that ending though.

George Orwell's political fable -- 'all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' -- is faithfully followed in this ambitious but rather disappointingly flat cartoon version.