There are a few things that will drive a person into a deep, gloomy depressed feeling. Babe: Pig in the City is one of them. The movie lacks the charming cheerfulness of the first movie. The movie should have been called Babe: Death and Taxes or Death and Mortgages. The movie starts with Farmer Hogart having an accident inside a well. Babe knocked some stones onto a digging machine he was lowering into a well and poor Farmer Hogart is nearly killed. The incident knocks Farmer Hogart(James Cromwell) out of most of the movie. Only the duck goes along for the ride.
Then matters just get worse. The Farmer's portly wife is left to care for the entire farm by herself. The bankers arrive to tell her that if she doesn't pay up then they will take the farm. She must go to a sheep show appearance with the famous Sheep Pig to make money to save the farm. All the animals from the first movie are now cut from the movie, including Hugo Weaving as Rex. The trip just takes the wife and Babe deeper into the movie crapper.
During the wait for an adjoining flight at the airport, a drug sniffing dog barks to show Babe how he works. The drug police give the Wife and Babe a thorough work over that causes them to miss the flight and the sheep show that will pay for the farm. Now the Wife is stranded in the city and can't go on or back. She must find shelter, but all the hotels refuse animals. She is helped by a pig face man that directs her to the one hotel that takes animals. Things don't really get more cheery at this point.
When the Wife and Babe reach the hotel they are loudly refused entry by the proprieter. She really is just making a show for the busy body neighbor across the canal. The city has a canal because it is a mixture of many different cities like Paris, New York, etc. That isn't really that important though. They enter the hotel and it is filled with animals on every floor. They have dogs, monkeys, cats, and an orangutan that wears a suit. Somehow, the animals really aren't that cute. The only human staying there beside the owner is Mickey Rooney, who works as a clown.
The movie just gets progressively darker. Babe helps a Pit Bull or Bull Terrier, I'm not sure of the breed. Just think mean watchdog. The dog was trying to kill Babe when it falls over a bridge and its head is hanging in the water. Babe pushes a boat over and saves the dog. The dog becomes a bodyguard and enforcer for Babe, who he calls the new boss. He makes me think of Luca Brasi from the Godfather. Despite the new friends, the movie doesn't feel that cheery.
Things get worse. Not only does the nosey neighbor call the animal control cops, but Mickey Rooney the clown has a complete disaster that burns down his clown show during a visit to an orphanage. Babe caused the accident. Mickey ends up in the hospital after the incident and he is on death's door(They never show him recover). While they are taking the animals away there is a scene with a little dog with crippled back legs. He has wheels on his back end and he is chasing the truck taking the animals away. He has grabbed a scrap of a woman's dress that got ripped and is being pulled by the truck. As he is drug along a car is about to run him over when he is flung violently to the side, cartwheeling into a side street. The little broken twisted wheels continue to spin briefly. Only a small clip of the dog having a near death heaven experience keeps the scene from being a complete disaster of gloomy sadness.
Babe and crew must try to rescue the others and there is at least a moment of fun when the Wife wears Mickey Rooneys clown outfit. She had to put it on because her dress ripped from the wax or adhesive that spilled on her during the street fight. Did I mention that she got in a street fight and got arrested? She wasn't with Babe for half the movie because she was in jail! LOL! What great comedy. So she wears the inflated clown pants and has a funny scene at a Fancy Ball for doctors. She bounces around and fights evil cooks and band members who are trying to stop her. The Ball is wrecked.
The disaster of a movie finally ends when the owner of the hotel and the Wife decide to convert the hotel into a night club. They get some revenge against the nosey neighbor that hates animals and noise. The nightclub pays for the farm and all the animals move to the farm. The potentially dangerous chimps live out in the trees on the farm(Remember that lady that had her face ripped off by an angry chimp?). Farmer Hogart finally gets the well pumping and looks at Babe and says,"That'll do, Pig." By that point the audience is probably crying or has committed suicide. Avoid this movie at all costs and keep depressed people and children far away from it.
Then matters just get worse. The Farmer's portly wife is left to care for the entire farm by herself. The bankers arrive to tell her that if she doesn't pay up then they will take the farm. She must go to a sheep show appearance with the famous Sheep Pig to make money to save the farm. All the animals from the first movie are now cut from the movie, including Hugo Weaving as Rex. The trip just takes the wife and Babe deeper into the movie crapper.
During the wait for an adjoining flight at the airport, a drug sniffing dog barks to show Babe how he works. The drug police give the Wife and Babe a thorough work over that causes them to miss the flight and the sheep show that will pay for the farm. Now the Wife is stranded in the city and can't go on or back. She must find shelter, but all the hotels refuse animals. She is helped by a pig face man that directs her to the one hotel that takes animals. Things don't really get more cheery at this point.
When the Wife and Babe reach the hotel they are loudly refused entry by the proprieter. She really is just making a show for the busy body neighbor across the canal. The city has a canal because it is a mixture of many different cities like Paris, New York, etc. That isn't really that important though. They enter the hotel and it is filled with animals on every floor. They have dogs, monkeys, cats, and an orangutan that wears a suit. Somehow, the animals really aren't that cute. The only human staying there beside the owner is Mickey Rooney, who works as a clown.
The movie just gets progressively darker. Babe helps a Pit Bull or Bull Terrier, I'm not sure of the breed. Just think mean watchdog. The dog was trying to kill Babe when it falls over a bridge and its head is hanging in the water. Babe pushes a boat over and saves the dog. The dog becomes a bodyguard and enforcer for Babe, who he calls the new boss. He makes me think of Luca Brasi from the Godfather. Despite the new friends, the movie doesn't feel that cheery.
Things get worse. Not only does the nosey neighbor call the animal control cops, but Mickey Rooney the clown has a complete disaster that burns down his clown show during a visit to an orphanage. Babe caused the accident. Mickey ends up in the hospital after the incident and he is on death's door(They never show him recover). While they are taking the animals away there is a scene with a little dog with crippled back legs. He has wheels on his back end and he is chasing the truck taking the animals away. He has grabbed a scrap of a woman's dress that got ripped and is being pulled by the truck. As he is drug along a car is about to run him over when he is flung violently to the side, cartwheeling into a side street. The little broken twisted wheels continue to spin briefly. Only a small clip of the dog having a near death heaven experience keeps the scene from being a complete disaster of gloomy sadness.
Babe and crew must try to rescue the others and there is at least a moment of fun when the Wife wears Mickey Rooneys clown outfit. She had to put it on because her dress ripped from the wax or adhesive that spilled on her during the street fight. Did I mention that she got in a street fight and got arrested? She wasn't with Babe for half the movie because she was in jail! LOL! What great comedy. So she wears the inflated clown pants and has a funny scene at a Fancy Ball for doctors. She bounces around and fights evil cooks and band members who are trying to stop her. The Ball is wrecked.
The disaster of a movie finally ends when the owner of the hotel and the Wife decide to convert the hotel into a night club. They get some revenge against the nosey neighbor that hates animals and noise. The nightclub pays for the farm and all the animals move to the farm. The potentially dangerous chimps live out in the trees on the farm(Remember that lady that had her face ripped off by an angry chimp?). Farmer Hogart finally gets the well pumping and looks at Babe and says,"That'll do, Pig." By that point the audience is probably crying or has committed suicide. Avoid this movie at all costs and keep depressed people and children far away from it.
