the audience applauded

Let's be realistic.

hyped garbage

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

If you are expecting the first Babe you will be disappointed. I don't want to say the first one is better. It's completely different. They take Babe out of the comfort of the farm and into the city. What I really liked about this movie getting to see more of his wife. I loved the farmer in the first movie. I thought it was great that his wife got more to do in this one. I thought she was really funny. I loved the new animals. I did miss the farm animals. They are there. Just not as much. This is a darker movie. I think if you go into it with an open mind you will enjoy it. Just don't expect the first Babe. This one is special in its on right.

Babe: Pig in the City is a good movie with a very enjoyable and well developed storyline with a good cast and a tone if very lovable characters.I find this to be a very underrated sequel,I found it just as good if not better than the first Babe,I loved all the animals in this one even more than the first,and I also felt a lot more emotion in this one.The movie also has a tone of very funny scenes.Fans of the first Babe should not be disappointed by Babe: Pig in the City.As he heads to a big city to save his farm,Babe goes to a hotel infested with animals.Its up to Babe to save these animals when they are discovered by animal control.

1996's BABE was an out-of-nowhere hit. Coming out on a risky summer season, where BATMAN FOREVER was the talk of the town, BABE found its audience thanks to word of mouth and some positive critic reviews. Now, it's considered one of the finest family films ever made; an witty, creative and original movie. If only its sequel BABE: PIG IN THE CITY received such grace. It more than deserves it. At first, a sequel to BABE seems like trying to sequelize the original WIZARD OF OZ (And no! RETURN TO OZ does not count). Why make a sequel to a surprise hit that was unique and surprising which would only detract from what the first one achieved. But in the hands of the inventive yet sadly under-appreciated Australian filmmaker George Miller (co-writer and producer of BABE), the sequel finds an interesting direction: Why not do what the original did; do something that goes against what audiences are expecting. Sadly, audience don't always warm-up to re- inventions of familiar premises. And whereas BABE was a light-hearted charmer sprinkled with moments aimed at grown-ups, PIG IN THE CITY is a little darker and more menacing, but still mixed with some of the same charm and inventiveness of the first. People sadly didn't warm-up with Miller's darker and more eccentric tone (the film is almost outright surrealism) and it remains misunderstood to this day. Luckily, home video has done the proper justice to this little gem and its finally seeing more positive light than during its original release. The storyline is incredible; combining a witty live-action cartoon, a quirky slapstick comedy, a Dickensian modern fairy tale, and some totally oddball surrealism. Immediately, the story begins with Farmer Hoggett (the brilliant James Cromwell, given very little screen time here though) getting caught in an accident that leaves his wife Esme (a hilarious Magda Szubaski) doing all the work in the farm, until a notice for foreclosure forces her to travel to the big city, in hopes of taking Babe to a special appearance and use the appearance fee as payment to their loan. But their city isn't as welcoming as expected. Almost immediately, Mrs. Hoggett finds herself accidentally convicted of drug possession and gets kicked-off almost everywhere ("Scram lady! This isn't a farm!"), until she finds a small hotel that actually hosts a couple of strange homeless animals. There, Babe meets a number of strange denizens including a group of showbiz chimpanzees, a disabled- to-the-waist dog named Flealick, a couple of other dogs and cats, and then some strays who finds comfort in Babe's hospitality and a ruthless pitbull who finds himself converted when an act of kindness from Babe gives him a wake-up call. Eventually, he also meets up with old pal Ferdinand, who thinks of Babe as his "lucky pig", only to realize to this little porker's potential. Though the storyline is rather simple (it's really another fish-out- water tale) and its morals are traditional, the film doesn't offer easy paths. "You're just a pig in the big city!" says Ferdinand the duck at one point in the film. "What could you possibly do? Why even try?" Immediately, the merits of morality and kindness in a different world where the rules are very different from the simple life in the country are questioned. Could kindness and humility overcome differences, change lives, inspire others even in a world as hopelessly bleak as an uninviting urban environment? Add to that, the movie even makes possible references to Babe as something of a Christ-figure, who finds himself serving up kindness to a bunch of city animals who finds the very idea oblivious. "I'm just a pig on a mission." Babe says at one point. Even if you don't see it at that angle, the movie is still the stuff of classic fairy tale viewed on more mature eyes. Kids will love its cute animals and fun slapstick (the climax is as crazy as it is lively and hilarious), but adults will find the story actually willing to transcend beyond the levels of what "kids movies" would usually go. There's just so much to say about this movie (Did I even mention about how creative and how seamless they make the animals talk and "act"?) that it just begs to wonder why people don't even notice something so unique and wonderful. It's not just a brilliant sequel, it's a brilliant original work all its own. I say, go see BABE again and love it as you always have. Now go see BABE: PIG IN THE CITY again, and see a vastly different film that you might not have noticed before.

people say this movie is too dark for kids what are they thinking this is such a good movie its funny and adventures and wild it had the best ending song made which almost made me cry I can understand its not as good as the first one which the first is a little bit better but this one is one of my fav movies it did scared me when I was 2 Betty scary but now in these days I am not scared of it. If you have not seen this movie you should get it out on DVD if you have the first one on DVD. I like the part where emse hogget swings a cross with the clown pants that was really funny and the part where she gets covered in a bucket of glue and when she said ho dear that made me lauge my head off so if you are looking for something funny then get this movie out on DVD because it will make you lauge it will make you cry and when everyone said to babe thank the pig that was really cute make sure if you have the time to watch this because its such a good movie its better watching this then chicken little its way better then son of the mask and almost as good as star wars eps 3 so I give this movie 8.2 out of 10.