“Babe: Pig in the City” is a wonderful family motion picture that touches various topics, but doesn’t live up to the power and overwhelming brilliance of the original.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 26, 2022

It's a bracing shot of inspiration: the darker it gets, the more important kindness becomes. It could've been made yesterday.

| Nov 5, 2019

It's so beautifully designed and everything looks like it's from a storybook.

| Jul 2, 2019

The audience isn't coddled, and the film doesn't talk down to anyone. We are, all of us, subjects to unbearable emotions, and Pig in the City is a rare film that more or less encompasses all of them.

| Jan 2, 2019

Babe: Pig in the City is one of the most subversive films ever marketed to children.

| Aug 22, 2017

A brilliant, grotesquely underrated family film criticised at the time of its release for being too dark for young audiences.

| Mar 1, 2016

Has no small amount of merit, especially in the areas of production and costume design, but... [not] in any meaningful way a successful or even appropriate follow-up.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 17, 2014

Carries its predecessor's torch into darker, quixotic territories, bursting at the seams with folkloric witticism and hellzapoppin' imagery.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2012

Darker than the original, not for very young kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2010

It's George Miller's masterpiece, maybe even the best commercial film of 1998.

| Jan 29, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

This is the stuff of Dickens, told on the scale of Blade Runner and Brazil, with the madcap spirit of The Great Muppet Caper.

| Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2005

An amazing accomplishment. George Miller brings the same approach to this sequel as he did with the Mad Max trilogy: Don't re-make, re-invent. A work of genius.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

...Paints a bleak picture of humanity. Not to mention, shall we say, animality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2002

Despite its G-rating, the movie includes numerous scenes of animals in peril, including a pit bull that nearly hangs himself, a crippled dog that gets thrown into a wall and a goldfish that almost suffocates... Happy holidays, kids!

| Jun 21, 2002

Babe needed a sequel as much as Citizen Kane or Casablanca.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 21, 2002