Die Konferenz der Tiere/Animals United/动物总动员

This was not a good story, too many characters, even too many key persons, confusing clues, some logically unreasonable places in the story, somewhat preaching a little too much, ending a little too ideally. Yet, the environment-protection theme of the movie was commendable, and the exaggeration to politicians' "oral environment-protection" was funny.

For Chinese people, this movie was very realistic: the dam in the movie could be compared to the Three Gorges Dam, which was also an evil money-making works while damaging environment. The difference between the movie and the Chinese reality was: there was only one villain guy in the movie, but there are a lot of bureaucratic guarding their personal interests by advocating the Three Gorges Dam with lots of high-sounding excuses.

这不算一个很好的故事，人物太多，没有焦点人物，线索也比较纷杂，故事的演进有些逻辑上讲不通的地方，说教的味道还是有点浓，结尾也有点理想化。不过片子的环保主题还是值得称道，对政客们的"口头环保"也做了辛辣的讽刺。

而对于中国人来说，这个片子有非常现实的意义：片中的大坝完全可以比作三峡大坝，是一个纯粹为了赚钱而破坏生态的罪恶工程。而片子和现实的差别也是明显的：片子里的反派只有一个，而中国却有一大堆各种官僚用各种冠冕堂皇的借口护着三峡大坝，最终是护着自己的私利。

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Directors: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe