Babe is the story of a young pig who wants to herd sheep like the female collie he befriends.
It's a wonderful movie and extremely absorbing the first time you watch it. I'm not sure it would be as rewarding the second time around and the sequel (Babe 2 - Pig In The City) was just plain awful.
There's a lot of genuinely very funny moments and the makers have managed to pull some truly amazing feats with the animals.
It's an overwhelmingly cute family film, aimed squarely at the younger end of the market, but it just about manages to pull off the trick of also being able to attract in enough adult viewers.
Unfortunately it's one of those films for which the word "heartwarming" could have been invented and it's consequently quite sick makingly sentimental at times - I much prefer the farmers of Chicken Run to the Hoggett family here. In a finale that's straight out of One Man And His Dog, you just know that Babe is going to pull off his ultimate performance and prove himself the Sheep Pig, the master of all he surveys after learning the secret password from Ma, the sheep he makes a friend of.
This is one of those films which has a bad habit of spawning lots of cuddly toys, and here the pig with the tuft of black hair on top is particularly annoying.
You'll probably find yourself liking this film despite all your best intentions - relax, there's no harm really done, you are allowed
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Mar 24th, 2001
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