I love this movie so much

Load of rubbish!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story: Doper artist teen goes on a school excursion to a special room on a library and sees books worth millions of dollars, being protected by a single librarian. He tells this to his charismatic friend who steals stuff from places. They start creating a plan on how to steal the books. They eventually get a third and then a fourth to join the project. The idea is to go during the day, disguised as old people, use a taser to knockout the librarian, steal the books, use an elevator to get out, use a car to get away, get documents in NY that say the books are legitimate, and sell them to fencers in Europe. What really happens in the movie: the day they are using old people's costumes there are 4 librarians on the special room, so they give up. But then they come the next day without the disguises. The stealer teen tases the librarian, but that doesn't knock her out. He threatens her. They get the books, but when they go into the elevator the third teen presses lots of buttons on it, and they stop on a lot of floors, end up running down stairs and leave some books behind. They try to get the papers for the books in NY. At this point I was like: Duh! She works with rare books. Do you think she hasn't heard about this national big robbery that happened by teens? Don't you think she's gonna tell the cops? At the end, the teens are just being stupid, until the cops get them. What probably happened in real life: A lot of the things on this movie are probably lies to create more drama. E.g.: old people disguises, pressing many buttons, etc.The style: Like one of those "based on real facts" movies, but on certain moments they put the real people, whose lives the movie was based on, being interviewed. It was an interesting approach to movie making, but there's a point where the real person say something, then the character says the same thing, then the real person say another thing, then the character repeats it, which was annoying. Also, it was absurd to me how all the actors were actually uglier and less charismatic than the real people they were portraying. Also, it's obvious to me that one of the real people was the charismatic leader that all the others gravitated towards, but that doesn't get explored on the movie.

The writer shows his Tarantino interest when he uses Mr. Pink and three other colors during a scene from Reservoir Dogs. Four college kids assemble for a daring robbery of a library with valuable books and art work. The boys are complete amateurs who manage to get together and go through with their audacious plan. The plotting is hilarious and the actors are all very good. I will give away as little as possible in order to keep the suspense. It is not as good as the aforementioned Tarantino masterpiece, but is well worth your time.

Unique story telling with terrific acting. An enjoyable movie from start to finish.

I admire the film-makers for choosing the pseudo-documentary style and trying to do something new with it. That said, this movie is D+ in every way and it'd be the very last choice I'd have to watch (narrowly edging out a test pattern)."Animals" is based on a true story and the real people are really in it. The problem here is the story makes a marginally adequate script that would need to be fleshed out with something or someone unique or ground breaking to make it really work. Instead it's a story of four not-too-smart young men, none of whom has anything compelling, or even remotely interesting about them. None of them are facing any sort of desperate situation that would push them to crime (drug addiction, debt, etc.) and their only motive for committing the crime in this movie seems to be boredom. So this train doesn't have enough momentum to push it over into even being mildly entertaining - instead it's a cringe-fest of stupidity. Even the music tries to get in on the story; the score is always there to tell us in big bold terms what we ought to be feeling. But ultimately "Animals" is just disappointing. Their crime is stupid, their motives are stupid, even the method of carrying it out is stupid, and so it came to the point where I myself felt, well STUPID - and even a bit guilty for watching them botching things so horribly. The 4 men in this story have chemistry, of sorts, but ultimately I found it very difficult to even care what happened to them. If the point here is as a lesson for how NOT to commit crime, this movie succeeds in sending that message loud and clear. All in all though, "Animals" is more cringey then entertaining: it's unpleasant to watch, there's not enough humor, the characters are lifeless and dull. This movie has few/no redeeming qualities. If I had it to watch over again I wouldn't - it's not a good use of your time.