Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

antenor432 This movie is a tale of a pig... an amazing pig That'll do pig...

alexmatte Like The Simpsons, and to a degree its various US cartoon followers, Babe is a film sophisticated enough to be too good for many adults.It isn't just the Saint-Saens organ symphony adaptation, If I Had Words, as its music score which marks it as a film to pay attention to. Or the fabulous character creations like Ferdinand. The simple but fundamental moral of the story is the profound truth that treating others as you would like to be treated yourself is the way to be. And that this works - just look at non-British-Capitalist Northern European nations' unmatched economic and social success in the latter half of the 20th century.Yes, cooperation and good communication beat brutality any day, even if at the expense of all those individuals and corporations who live off hatred and contempt.There's unfortunately no danger of Babe's philosophy making the world what it could be. That's the only reason it is a fairytale - and in any case not for children.

classicsoncall Reading the negative reviews for this movie here on IMDb is hilarious. Come on folks, lighten up a bit! It's a kid's movie, not a PETA conspiracy to turn you into a vegetarian! I have to pull myself together just to write something intelligent here.Okay, it's not the greatest movie in the world and the fact that it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar against "Braveheart" and "Apollo 13" does leave me shaken up a bit, but this is a cute film for kids with perhaps a disturbing element or two that the film makers might have reconsidered. Like having one of the barnyard animals hosting Christmas dinner as the main course. Or watching Mommy Pig head off to the stockyard, never to make a return trip. You'll have some explaining to do after you watch this with your youngsters. But if you focus on the positives this is a pretty entertaining story, with Babe persevering long enough to become a National Sheepdog, er Sheep-pig Champion to the delight of a cheering crowd. There's also a nifty takeaway for adult viewers as well, as it relates to Farmer Hoggett's (James Cromwell) insistence that little ideas should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny. Face it, he would have been a laughingstock if Babe failed, and he knew it. But he was resolute in his confidence that Babe would be able to hustle those sheep into the holding pen for victory. The victory itself seemed almost anticlimactic because you knew Babe would save the day for the farm. I just had to wonder though about those five perfect judges' scores of a hundred, a couple of high nineties would have been acceptable.Best part of the story never made it into the picture. As a reward for his win, Farmer Hoggett brought Babe back to the farm where he lived a life of leisure and spent the rest of his retirement makin' bacon.

stormhawk2018 This is a thoroughly charming movie. I perfectly remember the day when I went to the theater with my mom and two cousins to watch this film, back in early 1996. With a large targeted to the infantile audience, Babe obtain a nice effect to an older public with an intelligent screenplay, a good direction, just like the special effects and a simple language about dreams and friendship. I saw it when it first came out and here it is, sixteen (can it be?) years later and having seen probably everything that Netflix has to offer ordered it as a "what the hey." I liked it better the second time. The movie teeters on the verge of sentimentality, but pulls back in plenty of time so there is no cringing! My favorite part of the movie is when the stoic farmer, nursing Babe who is sick with the thought that the farmer just wants to eat him, sings him a song, and then does a highland dance. I don't think I've ever seen a more original declaration of interspecies love.