Serkis admits it didn’t have the North American launch he was hoping for, sparking “outrage” over what people perceived to be its political leanings (“anti-capitalist” and “not anti-communist enough” were some of the critiques, he says) and struggling at the box office.

Wow so he lost all the people who cared about the message of the book by dilluting it and still got shat on by people peddling McCarthy era scare tactics about communism and jerk off capitalism daily.

But we wanted to debate and boy, did we get a debate in the States. It was from both left and right, and they each had their own particular reason for reviling it. It was criticized for being anti-capitalist. It was criticized for being not anti-communist enough. It seemed to do what we wanted it to do, which was cause a debate, but what it didn’t do was encourage parents to take their children to see it. It literally got something like 60 million hits on the first trailer — and of outrage. It was a very very strange outing.

In the full quote from the interview he claims “the left and right both hated it” and then only mentions critiques from the right… Is it because the ones from the left are actually… good critiques? (like shocker no shit they are)

Animal farm has always been garbage, the movie just loudly came off as “no mutual aid or community!” but had no alternative or anything else to say, just like the book the CIA paid for. Fear thy neighbor or whatever.