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Australia · 1998
Rated G · 1h 32m
Director George Miller
Starring James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Mickey Rooney, Magda Szubanski
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
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Sequel to the 1995 film Babe. Having won the sheepherding contest, a triumphant Babe returns to his farm. But when Farmer Hoggett gets injured and is unable to work, Babe has no choice but to venture to the cruel city to save the farm from closure.
The Hollywood Reporter by Duane Byrge
While appealing as a pet show, as a movie, "Babe" is penned in by the lackadaisical story line and the film's grimy sensibilities. Despite the funny flourishes of the costumes and some sprightly animated figures and spunky effects, "Babe" is a pretty oppressive-feeling production. [25 Nov 1998]
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Pig in the City has been designed with the goal of recapturing the enchanting feel of the original while taking the story in new and different directions. It succeeds at both aims, standing as a worthy sequel to one of the decade's most innovative family features.
Maybe it could have worked had the movie found a story worth telling, but it simply drifts from depressing incident to depressing incident, resembling the nightmare of an adorable but deeply emotionally scarred pig. Anyone with fond memories of Babe ought to avoid this mirthless, dispiriting sequel.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Undeniably clever and inventive, Babe: Pig in the City has nevertheless sacrificed part of the freshness and buoyancy that made the original "Babe" so luminous. This sequel is more elaborate, more calculated and more self-consciously dark than its deservedly beloved predecessor.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Don’t miss this astonishingly bleak, inventive, funny, sumptuously designed film.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
You couldn't have gotten a more pleasantly bizarre film if Salvador Dali himself had directed, which says a lot for Miller's rabid talents.
San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Stack
A desperate, pathetic mess.
Washington Post by Rita Kempley
This is hardly your same old trough of slop. Babe nonetheless prevails, demonstrating once again "how a kind and steady heart can heal a sorry world."
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
It is more of a wonderment, lolling in its enchanting images--original, delightful and funny.
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