Babe (1995)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 2
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Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 0
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 505,927
Movie Info
A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script. The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his separation from his family, when he finds himself on a strange farm. Confused and sad, Babe is adopted by a friendly dog and slowly adjusts to his new home. Discovering that the fate of most pigs is the
Aug 4, 1995 Wide
Sep 23, 2003
Universal Pictures
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Cast
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James Cromwell
Arthur Hoggett -
Magda Szubanski
Esme Hoggett -
Christine Cavanaugh
Babe -
Miriam Margolyes
Fly -
Danny Mann
Ferdinand -
Hugo Weaving
Rex -
Michael Edward-Steve...
Horse -
Miriam Flynn
Maa -
Paul Goddard
Son-in-Law -
David Webb
The Vet -
Marshall Napier
Chairman of Judges -
Matthew Long
Sheepdog Trial Offic... -
John Doyle
TV Commentator -
Charles Bartlett
Cow -
Russie Taylor
Cat -
Courtland Mead
Puppy -
Rosanna Huffman
Sheep -
Paige Pollack
Sheep -
Maeve Germaine
Sheep -
Jane Alden
Sheep -
Kerry Walker
Sheep -
Kimberly Bailey
Sheep -
Patrika Darbo
Sheep -
Michelle Davison
Sheep -
Julie Forsyth
Sheep -
Tina Lifford
Sheep -
Helen O'Connor
Additional Voices -
John Erwin
Additional Voices -
Jacqueline Brennan
Additional Voices -
Justin Monjo
Additional Voices -
Neil Ross
Additional Voices -
Doris Grau
Additional Voices -
Tony Hughes
Additional Voices -
Roscoe Lee Browne
Narrator -
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All Critics (64) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (2) | DVD (7)
Babe is not, strictly speaking, a kid's movie. It is a preposterously funny fable that strikes a chord with adults, too.
Top CriticFor 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.
A film that is exceptional in its technical effects and its graceful ability to entertain.
[It's] a comedy of animal manners that is much funnier and much cannier than any recent movie about human relationships: a lovely, stubbornly idiosyncratic fable of aspiration and survival.
It has a surprising charm.
Australian director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller show what real talent and imagination can do, even without big-name humans as costars.
The hero of the children's movie Babe is probably the summer's most likable character -- a pig so appealing he may have your family swearing off hot dogs.
The plot provides a worthy lesson for kids, but it plays out like George Orwell's Animal Farm as retold by Barney. Kinda weird.
It's a delight from start to finish that will captivate children and melt the heart of even the grumpiest adult.
The movie is at times raucous, but its spirits couldn't be higher, and the tale teaches a good-natured lesson about why cooperation is better than coercion.
Heartwarming farm story touching and a bit scary.
Every movie for children should be made with this much care, expressing this much unparalleled richness and beauty
This reviewer for one, hasn't been able to face a pork chop in the months since, and is still laughing at the vibrant joyousness of this delicious comic fable.
It's enough to turn you vegetarian.
Babe provides a stunning revisionist take on barnyard politics, and may change the whole way we view pigs politically.
This Australian-made movie has a darker edge than most American kiddie films, but a perfectly contrived happy ending should soothe juvenile sensibilities. Adults, meanwhile, may find themselves enthralled.
Its seemingly effortless synthesis of humor and pathos [is] almost as wonderful as is its ability to capture the sense of awe and fear that attends youth's initial exposure to the big wide world.
This enchanting, cleverly made fable, brings freshness and charm to the premise of talking animals. A sleeper, the picture was nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, winning one for Visual Effects.
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Movies Like Babe
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- Arthur Hoggett: Come, pig.
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- Babe: Maa! Maa!
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- Sheep: Bah, ram, ewe!
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- Babe: Bah ram you!
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- Arthur Hoggett: That'll do, pig. That'll do.
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Foreign Titles
- Babe, le cochon devenu berger (FR)
- Babe, el cerdito valiente (ES)
