He's brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable. All in all, he's probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago.
Babe
A little pig goes a long way.
1995 · 1h 32m · G
Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Chris Noonan
Overview
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Director and cast
- Chris Noonan Director
- Christine Cavanaugh as Babe the Gallant Pig (voice)
- Miriam Margolyes as Fly the Female Sheepdog (voice)
- Danny Mann as Ferdinand the Duck (voice)
- Hugo Weaving as Rex the Male Sheepdog (voice)
- Miriam Flynn as Maa the Very Old Ewe (voice)
- James Cromwell as Farmer Arthur Hoggett
- Russi Taylor as Dutchess the Cat (voice)
- Evelyn Krape as Old Ewe (voice)
- Michael Edward-Stevens as Horse (voice)
- Charles Bartlett as Cow (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Thanks to well-trained live animals, clever voice characterizations and a big dash of muppetry from Henson's Creature Shop, Babe and his barnyard friends not only walk the walk and trot the trot, they also talk the talk.
Here's the summer's sleeper for kids and their parents, a terrific picture that takes a lot of risks and makes them all pay off in a charming story about a pig who fancies himself a sheepdog -- or sheep-pig.
Babe is not, strictly speaking, a kid's movie. It is a preposterously funny fable that strikes a chord with adults, too.
For children, the movie will play like a storybook come to life. Adults, at first, will marvel at the special effects and puppetry. But ultimately, they'll be won over by the nuances of a story that finds a fresh way to deliver a timeless message.
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