This movie premiered at Annecy back in June and had very negative reactions for diluting the political message with potty humor. One of the scathing reviews from Annecy: https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/animal-farm-review-andy-serkis-1236423877/
This movie is scheduled to release nearly 11 months since its Annecy premiere in June 2025. It must have been rejected by many distributors until Angel Studios picked it up.
There is also the stacked celebrity voice cast (typical for generic animated movies) consisting of:
Seth Rogan, Gaten Matarazzo, Laverne Cox, Iman Vellani, Kieran Culkin, Jim Parsons, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Andy Serkis, Kathleen Turner.
…who I'm sure weren't cheap to hire. Not to mention the animation tries way too hard to be cutesy for a political satire whils
The trailer for this movie was absolutely awful and mass-downvoted, with >10x the amount of dislikes to likes. Plus the trailer introduces modern elements such as a luxury car, a high-tech lab, and concert lights which are jarring to say the least (given the simplistic setting of the book and previous films).
by Mysterious_Brush1852
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“Who I’m sure weren’t cheap to hire”
Oh you would be surprised how many dirt cheap animated films youve never heard of have surprisingly big casts
Um this will make a morbillion dollars
You know it is always an EXCELENT sign when Netflix buys your movie, and then drops your movie, and then you show the movie in a festival and waits a whole damn year with the movie finished waiting any distributor to pick up.
I’m glad people seem to be rejecting this version. The subject matter and underlying messages are serious, particularly in this climate.
If Animal friends stayed on it’s may 1st date we would have had Animal Farm and Animal Friends release the same day.