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Title: Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Magda Szubanski | ... | Mrs. Esme Cordelia Hoggett | |
| James Cromwell | ... | Farmer Arthur Hoggett | |
| Mary Stein | ... | The Landlady | |
| Mickey Rooney | ... | Fugly Floom | |
| Elizabeth Daily | ... | Babe (voice) (as E.G. Daily) | |
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Danny Mann | ... | Ferdinand / Tug (voice) |
| Glenne Headly | ... | Zootie (voice) | |
| Steven Wright | ... | Bob (voice) | |
| James Cosmo | ... | Thelonius (voice) | |
| Nathan Kress | ... | Easy / Tough Pup (voice) | |
| Myles Jeffrey | ... | Easy (voice) | |
| Stanley Ralph Ross | ... | The Bull Terrier / The Doberman (voice) | |
| Russi Taylor | ... | The Pink Poodle / Choir Cat (voice) | |
| Adam Goldberg | ... | Flealick (voice) | |
| Eddie Barth | ... | Nigel / Alan (voice) | |
After Babe's great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig's talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank's requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for "the" city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city. Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
It's so technically well executed and gorgeous to look at (obviously George Miller asked for and got a huge budget this time around) but almost every thing that happens to these cutest-of-cute animals is *mean-spirited*. The sweetness of the last film is gone, as is that movie's easy-going but tightly-woven plot. Instead we have Hollywood histrionics and chase scenes and randomness that just seems like delay tactics for the first 3/4 of the film. For example, we follow that duck every now and then as he chases after but never finds Babe. The duck arrives in the city and is immediately shot at by twenty members of a rifle range. Funny? No. It's done in an ultra-realistic way, it looks like he's actually injured, there's no Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote cartoonness to this violence.
Finally after much depressing animal cruelty the surviving heroes get together and head off towards a final rescue act, but by that point I'd turned off. It involved the farmers wife in a clown suit bungee jumping around a restaurant and a bunch of balloons and other silly fighting. Not a very fun movie, and it could have been!
worst moments:
* Andy Rooney, made up as a clown, led off to die in a stretcher.
* Cute puppy says, "my human put me in a sack and threw me in the water"