I Am Not an Animal (2004)
I Am Not an Animal is a 2004 animation series created by Peter Baynham. It stars Steve Coogan, Julia Davis and Simon Pegg.
The only six talking animals on earth live a pampered life in a vivisection unit, sipping wine and swapping snobbery, blissfully unbothered by the science going on around them. Then animal rights activists set them loose into an England they are catastrophically unequipped for. This British animated comedy from Peter Baynham plays their cosseted delusion for pitch-black laughs, a menagerie of posh idiots discovering that freedom is cold, confusing, and full of ordinary animals who cannot talk back. Sharp, strange, and proudly uncomfortable, it aims its cruelty at the pampered and lets the jokes sting.
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What is I Am Not an Animal about?
The only six talking animals on earth live a pampered life in a vivisection unit, sipping wine and swapping snobbery, blissfully unbothered by the science going on around them. Then animal rights activists set them loose into an England they are catastrophically unequipped for. This British animated comedy from Peter Baynham plays their cosseted delusion for pitch-black laughs, a menagerie of posh idiots discovering that freedom is cold, confusing, and full of ordinary animals who cannot talk back. Sharp, strange, and proudly uncomfortable, it aims its cruelty at the pampered and lets the jokes sting.
When was I Am Not an Animal released?
I Am Not an Animal was released on 10 May 2004.
How many episodes does I Am Not an Animal have?
I Am Not an Animal has 6 episodes across 1 seasons.
Who made I Am Not an Animal?
I Am Not an Animal was created by Peter Baynham.
Where can I watch I Am Not an Animal?
I Am Not an Animal is available on Amazon Video and Apple TV Store.
Where to watch I Am Not an Animal
Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store
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A few thoughts on I Am Not an Animal
For more talking-animal satire with teeth, Animal Farm turns a farmyard into a fable about power and self-delusion, grimmer than its cartoon surface suggests. It shares this show's trick of using animals to say uncomfortable things about people, though it trades the absurd comedy for cold, deliberate allegory.
Adult animated comedies with a genuinely mean streak
I Am Not an Animal turns pampered lab animals loose into a world that has no patience for their delusions, and plays their shock for pitch-black comedy rather than warmth. Moral Orel, Duckman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021 and Farzar share that same appetite for cruelty aimed at the deserving, favoring bleak absurdity over the gentler gags most animated comedy settles for.
Shows and movies about animals who can actually talk back
The six pampered creatures at the center of I Am Not an Animal treat speech as a birthright, so it fits alongside stories that hand animals the same power and then complicate it. Mister Ed's talking horse plays it for sitcom mischief, Father of the Pride's Vegas lions and Zootopia 2's city of species both build whole societies around it, and Animal Farm turns the premise savagely political.
Books on how animated comedy like this actually gets made
I Am Not an Animal leans on decades of animation craft, from character acting through expression alone to comic timing built frame by frame, to make posh talking animals feel like real personalities. The Illusion of Life, The Animator's Survival Kit, Acting for Animators and The Animation Book break down exactly that craft, while The Pixar Touch traces how an industry built the tools this kind of comedy depends on.