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I LOVED the original Babe...it holds the honour of being my favourite movie in which the central character is a non-human. But it was a pefectly self-contained story on its own, and I never understood why they felt the need for even one sequel, let alone two. Something tells me that the recent arrival of Charlotte's Web has something to do with this...

Well, if they do use CGI (and I would hope not, because at least part of the original's appeal for me came from its entirely tangible mixture of real animals and puppetry), let's hope they've at least improved over what Babe:Pig in the City had to offer in terms of digital graphics. It was evident that the mice, during most of their appearences in the original film, were puppets...and yet they looked so much more convincing than their computer animated counterparts in the sequel. And don't get me started on those pelicans!

I bet it's just because they're too lazy to dub a human voice onto a pig. I may give it a chance at movie theatre, but I doubt I'll ever buy the DVD.

I like the Babe movies but if they change it too much they might as well not call it Babe. The animatronics and the cast is what made those films work.

Kevin

The first Babe was great. The second one was so-so. The third one will be a disaster if it is all CGI. Look what it did to Stuart Little 3 (Even though I really did not like the first or second ones to begin with.). I fear that this will be a DTV title and you know how I feel about DTV sequels.

There was a Babe 2?

Disney's Divinity wrote:There was a Babe 2?

Yeah. They actually had a Babe 2. It was called Babe 2: Electric Bugaloo.


Sorry. that was a laaaame joke.

But really they did have a Babe 2. My mom took me to go see it when I was rela young but hardly remember anything about it. All I can remember was him moving to the city with that farmer's wife but that;s about it and I'm not even sure if that's correct or not.

TashieGirl wrote:

Disney's Divinity wrote:There was a Babe 2?

Yeah. They actually had a Babe 2. It was called Babe 2: Electric Bugaloo.


Sorry. that was a laaaame joke.

But really they did have a Babe 2. My mom took me to go see it when I was rela young but hardly remember anything about it. All I can remember was him moving to the city with that farmer's wife but that;s about it and I'm not even sure if that's correct or not.

Close enough. The title was Babe:Pig in the City and the plot basically involved Babe and Mrs. Hogget getting stranded in the big city after a disasterous incident at the airport, in which a sniffer dog inadvertently suggested that Babe was being used to smuggle drugs...in the resulting confusion, they miss their connecting flight and have to stay in this hotel for a few days, staffed by a sinister children's entertainer, his daughter and a bunch of performing animals.

Overall, the sequel really didn't work for me, and I can't say I have too much sympathy for the route it went at the box office (that is, straight downward). It was just way too removed from the things which made the original so great, and though it was clearly trying to be even darker than its predocessor in terms of the threats facing the animals, I felt that the story was just too silly and over-the-top to have that much of an impact. The original Babe didn't rely upon huge overblown slapstick sequences to generate laughs; its sense of humour, along with everything else about it, was much more gentle and subtle. In fact, the two movies are so vastly discordant in tone that I couldn't imagine being able to watch them back-to-back.