Animals United (2010)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Disappointment for a huge fan!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

HOLEY UNDERWEAR! If you thought Captain Planet was preachy, just sit down in front of this crap-fest for a full dose.From moment one, it's an attempt to blame HUMANS for climate, suggesting that polar bears don't know how to swim, that politicians go to the arctic for photo opportunities, that somehow, riding a motorbike automatically makes you a slothenly character who, even when there are plainly marked trash bins, would rather throw trash everywhere.I'd like to sit down with the director and say, HEY MORON! WE AREN'T ALL LIKE THAT! Come down off your high horse and clean up YOUR OWN feces first.

Despite trying with some cheap jokes, the overall tone of this movie is rather dark, but what really bothers me is the inconsistency of the story and the overabundance of factual errors and improbabilities, in this movie we have African buffaloes with fur, upper incisors and (in the German dub) a Spanish accent, saltwater fish in a large open-top tank in either Botswana, Namibia or Angola (evaporation apparently being a non-issue for these tanks), animals from all over the globe who arrive in these landlocked regions after leaving a bathtub they used to cross the oceans, a biplane with an ATGM launcher, etc.. The worst of all these factual errors, IMHO, are the vegetarian lion - the rest of the carnivorous protagonists don't seem to eat anything either - and the dam closing in all water (instead of letting through roughly the same amount as before since otherwise it would simply spill over), because these are obvious plot devices to indoctrinate children with the political messages of this movie (meat is bad, mankind is evil).

I truly agree with most of the reviewers for this Movie who have given low scores. I can't imagine what people were watching that gave anything more than 1 point... and I only give that because I can't give a zero.Like one other reviewer, I had to create a login just to warn people of how bad this is.I had my doubts the very moment the Lion spoke. English accents just don't seem to work - but thats another story. The plot jumps around, and it totally meaningless in some areas. - like you see several short plots of animals, and then somehow, they are all in a tub in the sea.The people responsible for this should give up their chosen career because they clearly suck.This movie is not even worth renting, and I am saying this as I rented this from Blockbuster for ONE POUND..... and I had to create a login just to vent my anger...... really, thats how bad it is.

I registered on this site, after using it for 10+ years, simply to warn people away from this overt and factless piece of propaganda. It is being used to propagandize our children in the manner that the ECO community see fit. Within the first five (5) minutes, there are direct references to global warming, automotive air pollution and oil spills. All are characterized as being the reasons for the lack of water in a valley because a dam had been built (which is incorrect) and the children are being taught to embrace the agenda of the Socialist/Wealth Redistribution crowd because of the references aforementioned. It seems that humans and all their machines are bad for the planet and all animals would be better off without us. This is a mantra heard, relentlessly, by the likes of PETA, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, et al. If a filmmaker wishes to make a film disparaging the so called ills that humans have wreaked on the planet, let them entitle it a documentary, or more correctly a mockumentary. However, do not try to indoctrinate our children, for this is all that this film is: indoctrination propaganda. If you want to SELL your film to children, seek to sell it to those with stupid, uncaring parents. Mine would never see such brainwashing crap!