Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1998
	Director: George Miller (Max Max 1-4)
	Actors: Magda Szubanski (Babe), Elizabeth Daily, Mickey Rooney (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
	Country: AUS
	Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 22.06.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After he became a star, Babe the piglet (voice of Daily) is now on a mission to raise money in order to save his farm, accompanied by his bosses' wife (Szubanski). But they get stranded in the airport of a big City.
Review: Chris Noonan, director of Babe, said about this sequel that he had no interest in making Babe 2, arguing that he couldn't really see any place for a sequel to go. Well, as much as I like the first, I was not so shocked when watching Pig in the City that uses a similar recipe, although with much less originality and heart. George Miller continues to boast the advantages of the simple countryside life by propelling the lovable piglet into the big City. I tried to recognize which of our cities is was, but soon realized that it was actually an archetype of City that includes the most famous constructions from all over the world: Golden Gate bridge, Eiffel Tower, World Trade Center, Canals of Venise... In Pig in the City we discover a whole new menagerie of creatures lost/trapped in the city: monkeys of all sorts, cats, dogs, humans also... The digital special effects are improved with respect to the first movie (mouths of the animals in sync with the dialogs) while the mechanical ones are not as good (the flying duck and Pelicans). I found the story less touching than the one of the farmer and his pig in Babe, this time more focused on the (human) moral qualities of the pig, but the conclusion is still alright.
Rating: 6 /10