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Babe - Pig In The City

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I absolutely loved this film. Even better than the original. I saw it in the theaters maybe a month after its release and to my suprise, I had to go to a little old-release theater pretty far from my house. I couldn't understand why it still wasn't in the main theaters. It was because the critics hated it...and no one went to see it. I think we should throw all movie critics in the ocean and let us decide for ourselves what is a good movie and what is not! It kept me very entertained for the entire span of the movie, the settings were great, especially of the city. I will see it again and again, and I'll show it to my kids most definitely! That'll do Pig, that'll do...I am the witness to insanity.

"Babe:Pig In The City was not very good because it was very dark and not sweet and cute like the first one and definetlly not for kids younger then seven.

I never paid much attention to Leonard Maltin, but I will pay him even less heed from now on. This was a very good movie. I didn't find it to be too dark for children. And this movie is much more kind hearted than many movies which may be less dark visually. It is hard to believe that this movie gets criticized for being too dark and violent when our kids are watching the Power Rangers and Beetle Borgs every day. Babe shows us that kindness is a far better way to deal with problems than flying kicks and karate chops. Maybe Leonard paid too much attention to the lighting and not enough to the story.

By the way, the movie was hilarious and visually stunning. Great movie.

The first Babe had the sweet little kid in me wrapped around its finger. This Babe brought out the rough little kid in me with its Roald Dahl-like quality and its "Brazil" meets "Mad Max" atmosphere. It's completely different from the first movie and equally as good (if not better). The ad campaign was all wrong and it may suffer on the small screen a little bit, but if you're interested in an edgier, rougher, wackier version of Babe, this is it. Definitely one of the few times where I think a sequel improves on the original.

I brought this tape home late one night last week, had it in the VCR by 11:00pm, and stayed up until past midnight watching it from begining to end. I was a little disappointed, though. I thought BABE: IN THE CITY was going to be about a terrific looking woman who, after escaping drug pushers, pimps, and porno people, was going to be engaged as a cashier in an office supply outlet where she meets a straight white male character who hires her and promotes her beyond her capabilities at the time but gradually grows into the position where she makes the company bigger and better. I thought Meg Ryan was going to be in it. I thought the deal about the pig was some kind of a preview or something, until it kept going and going. I was in the kitchen making popcorn or I might have realized the promos were done. It was a cute movie. I have to say that, even though it wasn't anything like I expected.

When an avid movie fan asks the question, "Who wrote this?" it can be a great complement. In this case, it isn't -- I just needed to know who was responsible for this ill-conceived train wreck, and discovered it never had a real "writer", per se, just a producer / director who cobbled together a storyboard and made a movie out of it.

Production values, art direction, cute pig voice, lots of special effects, WHO CARES about any of it if the story SUCKS? Here's some advice from Steve Jobs: "Story Is King". Without a cogent, compelling story all you have is noise.

To give you an example of the endemic stupidity of this non-story, there is a scene where the pig DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A DOG IS! He was f**king RAISED BY DOGS, and he can't tell the difference between a sheep and a PIT BULL? Didn't he head-butt a dog not unlike a pit bull in the first movie? You know, the poacher scene?

Another doozy: the chef stealing the pig. At least in "The Little Mermaid" the chef's actions make sense, as it's a crab the chef's after, and crabs are customarily killed by the chefs who cook them. How many chefs slaughter their own pork? Is he going to do the deed on the cutting board next to the Spinach Alfredo?

This movie is more like a comic book or Moulin Rouge, in that it's filled with disjointed iconography more concerned with making an artistic statement than telling a coherent story. I guess there's a place for that sort of thing, but just the same I'll save my money for Pixar.