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Bookmark this pageBabe (1995)
Director: Chris Noonan
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From Time Out Film Guide
Degree of difficulty apart - and difficulty involved making an entire farmyard of real animals talk - the merits of Babe are those of Dick King-Smith's classic, The Sheep-Pig. Piglet Babe beats the slaughterhouse and is adopted by a sheepdog who coaches him in the art of rounding up sheep. Taciturn farmer Hoggett (Cromwell) wonderingly goes along with this apprenticeship, and is gratified when Babe wins the rosette at the trials. Babe's secret is politeness which gets better results than barking, and raises lots of laughs. Charming, eccentric and very amusing.Author: BC
User reviews of this film
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- Will Rothery said...
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Posted on Dec 16 2008 14:09
To be honest with you I don't know what to think. Whilst the fact it was a cute little piglet that could talk amused me, there was quite a distinct lack of Babe wielding a magnum in the face of injustice. It's all well and good to solve your problems with cute good humour and ingenuity, but to be frank, the producers would save far more money if they simply equipped him with a .37 magnum and a handful of white phosphorous grenades - we'd see how the sheep bandits would react then.
As such my view of the film was initially dampened, and my "girlfriend" Max Cartwright was equally dissatisfied, but the ending of the film did chirp us up abit - it was fantastic.
To think that the farmer would pork his wife on the table before, fully nude, killing Babe and the duck and having their intertwined bodies mauled in a factor-standard slicing machine. Bacon surely was on the table that day, and cock was on mine with Max! Haha!
(I'm a flagrant homosexual)
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Cast & crew
Director: Chris Noonan
Producer: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller
Cast: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Zoe Burton, Miriam Margoyles, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Paul Goddard, Christine Cavanaugh full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Rated: U
Duration: 94 mins
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