Alien at the Movies

Animal Farm

From Angel Studios, George Orwell’s allegorical novella depicting how farm animals rebelled against their human farmer & attempted to create an equal society is now on the big screen. This animated story is actually a critique of the Russian Revolution & Stalinism while using farm animals to illustrate how power corrupts The leaders of the revolt are two pigs, Napoleon representing Stalin & Snowball representing Trotsky. All is going well in the beginning as all of the farm animals… pigs, horses, cows, sheep, & chickens were working together with great success on the farm. Rules were established to prevent society at the farm from being run like the humans operated it. But slowly, Napoleon schemes to get rid of Snowball & changes the rules to create an elitist pig class. The studio has modernized the story to appeal to today’s audiences as well toned it down for the younger viewers. This interpretation is more kid friendly.

Alien gives it 2½ “LAUGHTER misread” stars out of 4.