Babe - Pig in the City [VHS]

James Cromwell and Magda Subanzski were a hilarious and adorable couple. Babe and the other animals were fun to watch.I had heard all about how great this movie was and kept meaning to watch it sometime. Shame on me that it took this long! What a wonderful movie.The sequel had tons of comedy and action and we really enjoyed it too. This set will be on our list for double feature night at our house.

This is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. My husband and I (who are a young married couple with NO kids) bought it as a set with the original Babe movie. The original Babe is an absolute favorite of ours. We were both looking forward to watching this movie. He was practically jumping up and down in anticipation when we put it on. What a disappointment!!!In the first scene, Hoggit has an extremely violent accident in his well and is out for the rest of the movie. The Mrs. travels to a seemingly post-apocalyptic city (which is a mix of every major city in the world) in order to make money to save the farm. This city is void of any halfway-decent moral life form. Everyone she encounters harasses or assaults her. The airport does a cavity search on her. Someone steals her purse and she ends up getting carted off in a police paddy wagon. Babe is left to fend for himself. A family of monkeys is staying in the same hotel and they steal Babe and exploit him in their magic act, which is performed in a hospital full of kids that ends up catching on fire. When Babe gets hungrier than he can bear, the monkeys tell him where he can go to get food. They take him to a yard of vicious dogs who chase Babe for 10 minutes. This action attracts the attention of all the animals in the city, who watch the spectacle but don't think for a second about helping poor Babe.Eventually the animals all become friends. One puppy tells Babe something to the extent of his humans tied him up in a bag and threw him out of their car. One of the monkeys becomes pregnant and has babies in the same night. Then animal control barges in and violently captures every last animal in the house, smashing a goldfish tank and strangling Babe on their way out. These scenes were difficult to watch and I'm sure they couldn't film them without some kind of animal cruelty.After some hustle, Mrs. Hoggit gets out of court and goes to find her pig. She runs around the city wearing a clown costume, which she ties up to a runner in a fancy ballroom and bounces around the room for about 20 minutes. If you can't follow me, good. You shouldn't be able to as the outrageous movie makes absolutely no sense.The morals of the movie are:1. Animals are not allowed in cities.2. People are horrible and will do anything they can to hurt animals.3. City animals are evil.It is way too violent for kids. It is just plain awful for anyone else. I can't say enough bad things about this movie. It left me stressed out and angry. It was painful to watch.Throughout the movie, my husband would turn to me and say, "What the heck was the director thinking!?" among some choice expletives. He can stand a little violence. He is in the Army. But the pointless violence in this movie did not make any sense. Keep in mind that neither of us has been around kids for more than a few hours at a time. We were appalled. I guess some may say that we "didn't get it." But honestly, what is there to get? I can't find the morals; if there are any, they are hidden deep in the darkness of the movie. And pray tell, what is the point of a fat woman in a blown up clown suit bouncing around a room for 20 minutes? It wasn't even funny the first time!

Just before he passed away, Gene Siskel made this his best picture of the year. I just watched this movie again and enjoyed it more this time than I remembered. Babe has a unique visual quality that this movie takes to another level. The representation of the Metropolis is fairly amazing.In this movie we get a fable more about the animals than the people. Farmer Hoggett appears only in the beginning and end and Mrs. Hoggett has the job of delivering the pig to the city and taking him back home while providing some determined comic relief (as she did in the first movie). Mickey Rooney has an amazingly touching almost-a-cameo role, as well.I think of this as a fable with the animals and shows how approaching a harsh and hopeless situation with a good heart (such as Babe's) can transform it into something livable and meaningful. Ferdinand seeking out Babe to be with his Luck Pig is a very neat sub-story that provides some great laughs as well. I found the scene where Flealick is thrown hard from his bite on the captors' truck and ends up in a broken heap to be quite touching. His semi-conscious dream of being whole again and leaping for butterflies is just right.You either like Babe's sweetness or you don't. I do. When he is sent to face his doom with the Doberman and the Pit Bull because he is told they are sheep he tries to handle it with what he knows and what he is told. Still, when it all goes bad he does his level best to survive and when he does, he goes back to rescue his tormentor. Nice stuff.Probably the lackluster reaction to the movie came more from its split character as a slapstick comedy (when Mrs. Hoggett reclaims Babe at the formal dinner in the clown suit) and as a somewhat grim morality play (when the animals struggle to survive on their own and their capture and escape from the authorities). Such intensity mixed with a stack of champagne glasses at risk can confuse.

This movie looks like it was done by Fellini, Dali, Rube Goldberg, and George Miller. The most mind blowing spectacular fantasy fest you could ever want. If you thought Babe was wonderful, this will blow your mind totally. It is not the same kind of movie even though it has the same characters, plus some new ones and the farmer, James Cromwell, is only in it briefly while Magda Szubanski takes the lead and how wonderful she is. If you didn't get enough of her in Babe, this will totally be a treat as she is one of the most comedically talented actresses you could ever want with her roly poly cheeks and body and a scene where gallons of shellac gets dumped on her and, well, I won't ruin it for you, but what happens to her wardrobe after it dries will cause you to laugh so hard you may need adult diapers. And the city. You just will not believe this city. It's a composite of every famous city in the world with all the most picturesque buildings and architectural structures from every famous from Paris to New York, maybe even San Francisco or Seattle. This is not only a fantasy, it is also an art film and unlike art films you will not be bored for an instance. Loved this movie and though I saw it many years ago, I always wind up watching it at least once a year, or when ever I see that it's showing on HBO. Oh, yes. I also forgot to say, this film is made with love and there are loads of lovely sentiments expressed throughout. You may also need a Kleenex with those adult diapers.

Great, funny movie. Similar to a cartoon, some scenes are odd, such as the animals walking through a children's ward as they execute an escape, but this movie is definitely a rib tickler for young and old!

I bought this Blu-ray to replace my DVD copy, the change to Blu-ray makes it look like your watching a new film because you notice details that you hadn't seen before, so I can recommend this Blu-ray. Babe in the city is a film that expands on the first film Babe, and is even better for it with many more characters to enjoy. A film for all the family, and appeals to young & old alike, before long you will forget that the animals are talking, as you get drawn into the plot. A lovely film.

Excellent film

I like dis movie

Just love this movie!

Nice dvd