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The 1995 Academy award-winning film Babe was Australian-made and featured the latest in talking animal anima-tronics. It told the heart-warming story of a sheepherding pig named Babe and his rise to c... read more read more...ommunity fame. The film was a tremendous hit, both financially and critically. Babe: Pig in the City is the higher budgeted American-made sequel that picks up where the original left off. It was directed by George Miller (Mad Max trilogy) who produced the original Babe film, and received a lot of criticism for being much darker than the original. The story owes more to George Orwell's Animal Farm or Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist than the original film. Having triumphed at the National Sheepdog trials, Babe returns home a hero. But after farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) suffers from a farming accident, Mrs. Hoggett, a naive portly woman, is left to work the ranch alone. It's not long before the bank comes knocking. Desperate to save her farm from foreclosure, she accepts an offer for Babe to perform his sheepherding abilities at an overseas state fair. Babe, Mrs. Hoggett, Ferdinand the duck, and the singing mice travel across the ocean to a surreal metropolis, where they suddenly become stranded and separated. Soon Babe is performing with circus apes, being chased by wild strays (sounding a lot like Marlon Brando in The Godfather), and making a new wheelchair-bound canine friend (voiced by Adam Goldberg). He also is anointed leader of the animal community. What Babe lacks in street smarts he makes up for in honest goodness as he teaches audiences yet again that "an unprejudiced heart can mend a broken world." ~ Arthur Borman, Rovi

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G, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: George Miller

Release Date: November 25, 1998

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DVD Release Date: May 4, 1999

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Flixster Reviews (2,015)

  • LoughnerWasLucid
    February 26, 2012
    LoughnerWasLucid
    if i didnt wanna see Babe1, why would i wanna see pig (21 year-old Miley Cyrus) in the city?
  • fb100002359227440
    January 3, 2012
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    Not so good as the first film, Babe: Pig in the City, presents some dark scenes that gonna scare the lovers for the sweetness of the previous picture and could deviate the children of this sequence, but could too interest an audience that like of more dark material. Despite been ... read morea good film, Pig in the City, is not a recommendable movie.
  • spielberg00
    September 9, 2011
    spielberg00
    This definitely wasn't as good as the original BABE movie.
  • kenstachnik
    September 16, 2008
    kenstachnik
    A wonderful dark childrens fairy tale.

    This was obviously a huge art direction influence on the Harry Potter films.
  • thmtsang
    December 1, 2007
    thmtsang
    Babe is back and he encounters new friends in the city such as dogs and chimps.
  • FiLmCrAzY
    October 28, 2007
    FiLmCrAzY
    if you liked the first one BABE THEN U WILL ENJOY THIS ONE IT IS GD SWEET
  • puffchunk
    September 24, 2007
    puffchunk
    better than you might think.
  • kiriyamakazou
    May 30, 2007
    kiriyamakazou
    Charmless sequel which is sllightly darker but mainly a bore. It just doesn't feel like Babe, which is interesting but hurts the film a lot.
  • ceWEBrity
    March 25, 2007
    ceWEBrity
    Yeah, compared to the original, this is just creepy and kind of depressing. Talking animal suicide? Not okay.
  • shortcartoonist
    April 26, 2006
    shortcartoonist
    This sequel holds a very different tone to that of the original, some good and some bad. The bond that was conveyed so well between Babe and farmer Hoggett is completely lost as we see this sequel revolve more heavily around the animals. A much darker, quirkier film, Babe: Pig in... read more the City may dissapoint those expecting more of the light fantasy to continue but will appeal to those that can accept the strange aspects.

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Critic Reviews

Pat Graham
January 29, 2010
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader

It's George Miller's masterpiece, maybe even the best commercial film of 1998. Full Review

Rita Kempley
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post

Darkly funny! Full Review

Kevin Maynard
January 1, 2000
Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz

So distressingly dark, grim, and cynical it's likely to make kids cry!

Julie Hinds
January 1, 2000
Julie Hinds, San Jose Mercury News

Laden with more useless pork than a congressional bill.

Sean Means
January 1, 2000
Sean Means, Film.com

A sequel that lacks the quiet beauty and subtlety of the original!

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

More magical than the original! Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
January 1, 2000
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Brilliant! Full Review

Philip Wuntch
January 1, 2000
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News

The new saga basks in imaginative charm! Full Review

Janet Maslin
January 1, 2000
Janet Maslin, New York Times

BABE has all but lost its bearings. Full Review

Bob Fenster
January 1, 2000
Bob Fenster, Arizona Republic

Even more fun than the original!

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