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Something’s off about “Animal Farm”

Distributed by the studio behind "Sound of Freedom," this take on George Orwell's classic is uniquely insidious

Published May 3, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

It may seem like years in the past at this point, but it was only three little months ago that the world got itself worked into a lather over Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” The crux of the outrage surrounding Fennell’s film stemmed largely from the fact that she refused to rename her relatively loose, aesthetic-minded adaptation with a title that didn’t directly reference Emily Brontë’s novel. Literary purists were incensed. “This is not our ‘Wuthering Heights’!” they cried, pouring their souls out onto the internet. But Fennell’s film was a racy, adult-oriented retelling, made for people old enough to understand the difference between source material and an adaptation that remixes the themes and events of the original story necessary to produce a fresh take. It was a movie that trusted its viewers to separate the book and Fennell’s own cinematic idea of it. It was not to be taken as gospel because the target audience would ideally have fully formed brains.

The same can’t be said about the new animated adaptation of “Animal Farm,” which bears so little resemblance to George Orwell’s perpetually relevant 1945 allegorical novella that it might as well be “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” There are animals, yes. And they are indeed on a farm. They even share the same names as........

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