Product: Bebe, Un Coninito Va Muy Lejos (Babe -- Spanish edition) [VHS] (1995)
Rating: 3.0
Beware, sensitive folks and youngsters
Bambi/Old Yeller/Dumbo tearjerkers repel me. We bought Babe after a decade of avoiding it, but the previews were so cute and there wasn't a hint of darkness, puppies and piggy laughing together! A crowing duck!Babe starts with a scene in which his mother is carted off to the slaughterhouse in a MEAT truck. Sheesh. On the farm we see bloody hatchets and meat hooks, and dogs ravaging and killing an old sheep named Maa that Babe has become attached to, and there is much discussion of animals headed for the dining room table.The second movie Babe, a Pig in the City, centers on a group of dogs and cats abandoned by their owners to starve in the streets, and their subsequent capture and imprisonment at a medical lab run by jack-booted thugs.Ham-fisted? Yes.If you buy this for the kids to watch after Christmas dinner, don't serve duck or ham, please.