Babe Family Double Feature
by Chris Noonan, George Miller
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Actor: Christine Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Daily, James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Mickey RooneyDirector: Chris Noonan, George Miller
Brand: Universal Studios
Writer: Chris Noonan
Writer: George Miller
Producer: Barbara Gibbs
Writer: Dick King-Smith
Writer: Judy Morris
Writer: Mark Lamprell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 188 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Babe Family Double Feature
Movie Review: GREAT MOVIES!!! GREAT VALUE!!! FOR ALL ANIMALS LOVERS YOUNG AND OLD!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this Double Feature DVD! "Babe" is one of my all time favorite movies and "Babe Pig in the City" is a completely worthy sequel. I got it as a gift and I don't have kids. I just love animal movies! I'd recommend it for both kids and adults. I didn't care that you "have to" watch the trailers for other movies before Babe. Actually, you can fast forward through them and they're not even on the other side of the disc for Babe Pig in the City. It's worth the double feature price anyway. I'm also a vegetarian (have been since I was 10) and can't believe anyone wouldn't be after seeing movies like this. Animals are sentient creatures with feelings. I hope this movie makes people stop and think about it. Go vegetarian!!!
Summary of Babe Family Double Feature
Babe is a shy Yorkshire piglet who discovers he can be anything he wants to be. He meets Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) and a barnyard full of captivating characters. With the help of his friends, the heroic little piglet is headed for the challenge of his life in this endearing and fun-filled tale.The fun continues when Babe and his friends head to the city to raise money to save the farm. Babe?s kind and steady heart achieves miracles in these enduring and fun-filled tales the whole family will love.
Deservedly acclaimed as one of 1998's best films, this sequel to the beloved 1995 live-action fantasy proved a commercial catastrophe and a source of dismay to parents expecting another bucolic, sweet-natured fable. Every bit as sly and visually stunning as its predecessor, Babe: Pig in the City is otherwise a jolting ride beyond the Hoggetts' farm into a no less vivid but far darker world--the allegorical city of the title, which for the diminutive "sheep pig" proves truly nightmarish. Australian filmmaker George Miller (Mad Max, The Road Warrior), who produced and cowrote the first film, this time takes the director's reins, and he ratchets up the pace and the peril as effectively as he did on his influential trilogy of apocalyptic, outback sci-fi thrillers.
From the opening scene, Babe: Pig in the City means to disrupt the reassuring calm achieved by the conclusion of the previous film. Babe's prior triumph proves short-lived, and within moments Miller has us literally peering into the depths as he sets up a horrific well accident that nearly kills the taciturn but good-hearted Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell), Babe's beloved "Boss." Journeying with the equally pink, even plumper Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski), the young pig finds himself in a city where animals are outcasts, staying in the lone hotel that allows pets. When Mrs. Hoggett is detained, Babe must contend with the suspicions and rivalries of the hotel's other four-legged guests. The film's G status doesn't fully telegraph the shock Miller induces: bad things happen to good animals, and Babe's new acquaintances are a far cry from his colleagues on the farm. In particular, he must contend with a cynical family of chimps given wonderful, dead-pan voice characterizations by Steven Wright and Glenne Headly.
Miller's use of effects to transform his animals into "actors" is even more seamlessly integrated than in Babe. The sequel's production design is crucial to the creation of a complete, absorbing world, and purely visual ideas--such as a deluge of blue balloons during the climactic ballroom battle--achieve a splendor and originality that a room full of computer-graphics desktops couldn't muster. Ultimately, though, the film does more than amaze: as Babe's compassion and courage transform those around him, we're moved in ways that purveyors of by-the-numbers family fare can only dream of. --Sam Sutherland
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