Film

What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases

Animals United (2010)

Director: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe

Time Out rating

Average user rating

15 reviews

Movie review

From Time Out London

There’s no point in pondering how a meerkat, a lion, two Galapagos turtles, a polar bear, a kangaroo, a farting Tasmanian Devil and a French cockerel could ever feasibly live in harmony, suffice to say that it at least allowed the filmmakers to a) keep true to the concept of the title and b) drum home their message that mankind is destroying all regions of the planet and nature’s administrators – the animals – are getting cheesed off.

‘Animals United’ opens with a widescreen vista of an African plain before cutting to the hero of the piece, a meerkat called Billy. With the savannah all dried up, Billy and a matey lion called Sokrates set out to investigate the cause of the drought and in doing so unite the world’s animals in one happy Noah’s Ark moment. Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe’s cautionary tale sports impressive animation and posits a worthy ecocological message, but its method of execution is clumsy, stilted and filled with swathes of inconsequential padding. Still, the kids at the screening managed to stay awake, so that's a plus.

Author: Derek Adams

Time Out London Issue 2104/5: 18 – 29 December, 2010

Email Tweet Share

User reviews of this film

LemonSalt said...

Posted on Mar 03 2012 04:51 This movie sucked, it copied off of the Lion King and probably the tazmanian devil... And it's weird because the movie talked terrible about humans, even though humans made it themselves. XP

Report as inappropriate
n said...

Posted on Dec 08 2011 15:14 This film is a total waste of time and money, so many good comedy actors in this movie, but no comedy actually going on, the voices and mouths dont match what they are saying most of the time, and there is no emotion in any of the voices in any situation, very shockingly bad indeed, i expected better

Report as inappropriate
Iain Moore said...

Posted on Oct 02 2011 21:30 *GO SEE 'RIO' INSTEAD ITS FUCKING FANTASTIC* HOWEVER, this fillum is a sloppy, embarrassing, laughable dogshit with a paper thing swiss cheese plot, primary school nativity dialogue (AND acting), and is a total waste of money and human life, topped off with the casting the egregious James Corden as the lead - sadly not leading the entire production team headfirst into a fucking furnace - humans united! - in that this waste of eyesight is REPREHENSIBLE HYENA VOMIT.

Report as inappropriate
CHARLIE said...

Posted on Jun 09 2011 19:29 PURE SHIT!

Report as inappropriate
Videoatari said...

Posted on May 25 2011 12:21 Please Please PLease don't waste your rental or time watching this tripe, a complete load of dross, poorly voiced, with a really really bad story line, to be honest one star is three to many.

Report as inappropriate
Sunny said...

Posted on May 07 2011 16:35 Plot was quite boring and also disjointed at times. I didn't really enjoy it. The characters weren't all that memorable either.

Report as inappropriate
steph said...

Posted on Apr 24 2011 08:09 The dullest film we've ever seen!!!

Report as inappropriate
Nicola mizen said...

Posted on Feb 26 2011 12:22 Do not bother going to see this film! I took my 4 yr old and 9 yr old and they asked to leave half way through as they were bored. There doesnt seem to be a story line, no comedy and the script could of been written better by my children! Very disappointed

Report as inappropriate
LilRed said...

Posted on Feb 12 2011 10:32 This film is terrible.....!!! I laughed out loud once, the plot was awful, the characters weren't funny, the script was beyond words.... My son said it was good, but he didn't laugh once and didn't leave the cinema with the same hype he usually does after a good film. Do NOT pay full price for this at a cinema, I'm so relieved I only paid a pound at the kids morning!! What a waste of some good celebrity voices.....

Report as inappropriate
Ste said...

Posted on Jan 31 2011 12:09 After queuing for an hour to see another film that was sold out we had no other choice but to watch this or go home, we should have gone home. One of my two children seemed to enjoy the film (but as she is three I'm not sure it was anything to do with the plot) the other (aged 6) kept asking to leave and if Courtney wasn't enjoying the film that's what I'd have done. The plot is uninteresting and extremely preachy, you find yourself sitting through long spans where almost nothing happens, the plot progression is too slow for even young children to get into, the voice's are all out of synch and the jokes are very scarce (the only one seeming to be a running fart joke that was a bit old the second and eventually became irritating. I expect I'm being overly critical of a kid’s film but even my kids agreed with me that it was boring and seemed to last forever.

Report as inappropriate
T said...

Posted on Jan 09 2011 17:39 Very disappointing waste of talent.

Report as inappropriate
jaks said...

Posted on Jan 08 2011 23:14 Really shockingly bad!

Report as inappropriate
Bonster said...

Posted on Jan 05 2011 18:49 Terrible. Unfunny, misanthropic and very up its own ... backside. Recommendation: avoid.

Report as inappropriate
sue grinham said...

Posted on Jan 03 2011 11:46 took my grandchildren aged 7 and 4 , we all really enjoyed it.

Report as inappropriate
R said...

Posted on Dec 21 2010 15:47 Shockingly bad.

Report as inappropriate