Product: Bebe, Un Coninito Va Muy Lejos (Babe -- Spanish edition) [VHS] (1995)
Rating: 4.0
The heroism of the sheep-pig "Babe"
The beginning of the film starts with narration how Babe goes to the farm and what happen to Babe before he comes. The most notable feature of this film is personification of animals. Particularly, in the conversation of animals, a mouth moves. It supposed to be used special effects. It describes realistically like people¡s talking, by using the expression¡s changes as well. This film is based on the fairy tale, for that reason, a narrator appears and explains about the story during the film like an orally narrated fairy tale. In addition, it divides into several chapters, which is also like reading a fairy tale. And this film uses music quite appropriately, especially, when the incidents happen. For example, the music expresses the situation that makes tension or intimation. Interesting thing is the feature of animals, which are personified; they have a discipline in their own way like the human society. There is a leader who is a male sheepdog, named ¡Rex¡. Like this, they are all like human. After Babe comes to the farm, it happens some chances that Babe break the rule. When he becomes a sheep-pig, he does not use his authority and threats to lamb like other sheepdogs, but he asks his favor to them politely. Finally, this film states humanity and morality. At the last happy ending scene, the bright sunlight talks this. As the whole, this seems to be like a fairy tale book, a farm, a hill and animals, all the background of this film are like one scene of the nursery story. The reason why this can be possible is the special effects. This film cannot be said except special effects, it is the most significant part of this work. For example, special effects are related to every animal¡s movement, features, expressions, in particular, when they have a conversation, the motion of their mouth and also singing mice. In fact, this film has a simple plot that one pig, named ¡Babe¡, becomes a sheepdog and wins a first prize at the sheepdog contest. However, sometimes simplicity is better than complexity like this fairy tale for adults.