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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) | |
| Danny Mann | ... | Ferdinand / Tug / Additional Voices (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 Pitbull / 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>
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Very, and I do mean very, strange picture that is suffering an identity crisis in every major cinematic area. "Babe: Pig in the City" is of course the sequel to the critical and box office smash of 1995. This time the titled animal must go to the city with its owner's wife (Magda Szubanski) to raise money from guest appearances after his success in the original. The farmer (barely seen and totally wasted James Cromwell) suffered an accident and his property is about to be taken by the bank. Thus Babe must come to the rescue once more. In the city Szubanski finds a hotel full of dogs, cats and even monkeys and stays there. The story-line then goes out of focus as animal rights and the place that all of God's creatures have in the world becomes the major focal point. The subject matter is dealt with in a distorted way that is more dark than funny. Director George Miller (who produced the original and assisted with Chris Noonan's Oscar-nominated direction in 1995) does a great job with visual effects and art direction, but struggles with a screenplay that has no earthly idea what it wants to do. The fact that Miller is not the director that Noonan is becomes an apparent problem pretty quickly as well. The original worked because of warmth, compassion, intelligence and believability. None of those attributes are in this sequel. 2.5 out of 5 stars.