It is a serious pity that one can only praise the film version of George Orwell's Animal Farm as a valuable beginning or experiment, and hardly more than that.

The animation of this film may feel dated, but the original message is intact although the ending is hopeful with a donkey becoming the hero.

It is a fable, or allegory, in which human actions are presented in the guise of animal actions. But how can this convince any intelligent person who knows that animals don't act that way? Aesop was far cleverer.

Intense, compelling adaptation of Orwell's classic story.