Animals United

Film

Family films

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Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>2/5

User ratings:

<strong>Rating: </strong>1/5
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Time Out says

Fri Dec 17 2010

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

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Release details

UK release:

Fri Dec 17 2010

Duration:

93 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe

Cast:

Thomas Fritsch, Ralf Schmitz, Christoph Maria Herbst

Screenwriter:

Sven Severin, Klaus Richter, Erich Kästner, Oliver Huzly, Reinhard Klooss

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Rated as: 1/5 (11 ratings)

  • Watching this movie. it felt like i got anal raped repetitively by a sloth. Do not watch unless you want a slow and painful death. the directer and writer is a fag and all the bad things in the world are because of him and this shit movie. this movie is the reason my mum killed her self. hope die of cancer. i live at 23 powles road Yamanto Qld come get me

    chris heuston Sat Jan 5
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  • 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

    LemonSalt Sat Mar 3 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • 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

    n Thu Dec 8 2011
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  • *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.

    Iain Moore Sun Oct 2 2011
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  • PURE SHIT!

    CHARLIE Thu Jun 9 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • 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.

    Videoatari Wed May 25 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • Plot was quite boring and also disjointed at times. I didn't really enjoy it. The characters weren't all that memorable either.

    Sunny Sat May 7 2011
    Rated as: 2/5
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  • The dullest film we've ever seen!!!

    steph Sun Apr 24 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • 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

    Nicola mizen Sat Feb 26 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • 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.....

    LilRed Sat Feb 12 2011
    Rated as: 1/5
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