Babe: Pig in the City

***Babe: Pig in the City*** is a 1998 Australian Adventure/Comedy film and the sequel to the 1995 film Babe. It is co-written, produced and directed by George Miller, who co-wrote and produced the original film. Most of the actors from the first film reappeared as their respective roles, including James Cromwell, Miriam Margolyes, Hugo Weaving, Danny Mann, Roscoe Lee Browne and Magda Szubanski with newcomers featuring Glenne Headly, Steven Wright, James Cosmo, Myles Jeffrey, and Mickey Rooney. However, most of them have only brief appearances, as the story focuses on the journey of Babe (now voiced by Elizabeth Daily in place of Christine Cavanaugh) and Farmer Hoggett's wife, Esme, in the fictional city of Metropolis. This movie was one of my all time favorite movies. I have been watching this one a lot ever since I was really little. This movie has mostly adults (middle aged adults and old adults) especially in the ballroom chaos scene and chaos theory scene.

## Babe: Pig in the City

### Starring

James CromwellEG DailyHugo WeavingMickey RooneySteven WrightGlenne Headly

## Plot

A few weeks after the events of the first film, Babe the Sheep-Pig continues living like a "sheep pig" and looks up to his master, Farmer Arthur Hoggett. One day, Babe inadvertently causes an accident while attempting to lend Farmer Hoggett a hand repairing the pump for the farm's well. Arthur sustains severe injuries and is unable to tend to the farm; Esme is tasked with tending the farm alone, which proves unsuccessful. Shortly afterward, bank representatives arrive to inform the Hoggetts they defaulted on their mortgage and will be evicted at the end of the month, unless they can pay it off. With the looming threat of foreclosure and losing the farm forever, Esme finds a flyer for a faraway fair hosting a sheepdog herding contest, which promises enough prize money to save the farm. After reassuring Arthur she will take care of Babe on the trip, Esme and Babe leave the farm together.

At the city of Metropolis' airport, an overzealous sniffer beagle named Snoop, who shows Babe what it is like to be rewarded for a "good job", falsely signals that he and Esme are carrying illegal substances. Airport security officers interrogate Esme, causing her to miss their connecting flight. Failing to secure accommodation that allows animals in an unfamiliar city, Esme is approached by an airport janitor who refers them to a suitable hotel. But when Esme arrives at the hotel, she is conspicuously turned away by the landlady. Dejected, Esme begins to depart, only to be intercepted at the back entrance by the landlady, who secretly loves animals and mercifully provides refuge by skirting hospitality laws and the authorities, much to the chagrin of her neighbors.

While Esme leaves Babe to make a long-distance call home, Babe chases a Panamanian white-faced capuchin named Tug who steals Esme's suitcase. Following him into a hotel room, Babe meets a trio of chimpanzees—Bob, his pregnant wife Zootie and his little brother Easy—and Thelonius, a civilized Bornean orangutan who is a servant for the landlady's elderly uncle, Fugly, who decides to keep Babe and make him part of his clown act he performs with his apes at the children's ward of the local hospital. Babe initially refuses, but accepts when the apes insinuate he will be paid—funds he could use to save the farm. When Esme returns, Fugly leads her to think Babe escaped into the city. During her search for Babe, Esme is arrested after an incident involving police officers and other bystanders caused by a gang of hooligan bikers attempting to mug her. Meanwhile, at the hospital, Fugly performs his act, with Babe as the new addition to the show. However, the act goes awry when Babe accidentally causes Fugly to set the stage curtains ablaze, forcing an evacuation.

The next morning, Fugly is taken to the hospital in a food coma, accompanied by his niece. The hotel's animal occupants, now left to fend for themselves, soon become hungry. Later that night, the chimps decide to steal food from a store, using Babe to distract a pair of guard dogs. When they chase Babe around the neighborhood, he falls into a canal, but swims to safety. Babe returns to save one of the dogs from drowning, who gratefully pledges to be Babe's bodyguard; Babe then invites all the stray cats and dogs to the hotel. Babe and the guard dog share the pilfered jellybeans the chimps stole with all the animals as Zootie later goes into labor and gives birth to twins. Babe then joins the animals together in singing "If I Had Words", which is overheard by his duck friend, Ferdinand, who left the farm in search of him.

The celebration is interrupted when several animal control officers, alerted to the violation by the Flooms' spying neighbor, Hortense, break into the hotel and remove all the animals except for Babe, Tug, Ferdinand and a disabled Jack Russell terrier named Flealick. The next day, Esme is released from custody after explaining her predicament to the judge. That night, Babe, Tug, Ferdinand, and Flealick infiltrate the animal control facility and rescue their imprisoned friends. Esme later returns to the hotel to find it in disarray and the landlady mourning her uncle and the animals' capture. They both soon confront Hortense about where the animals have been sent and then set out to find them.

The duo track the animals to a charity dinner in the hospital's ballroom. After evading the staff, Esme, who is later aided by Thelonius, and the landlady successfully retrieve all the animals. The landlady then sells the hotel, which becomes a loud nightclub, and gives the proceeds to Esme to save the farm. The landlady and the animals come to stay at the farm, Esme happily resumes her duties with assistance from Thelonius and Arthur recovers with only a minor limp. Arthur, after finally fixing the farm's water pump, proudly beams at Babe and says, "That'll do, Pig. That'll do."

At the end of the end credits, the mouse says "thank you for staying till the end, bye bye"

## Cast

* Roscoe Lee Browne as the narrator
* E. G. Daily as Babe, a pig (replaces Christine Cavanaugh).
* Magda Szubanski as Esme Cordelia Hoggett, Arthur's wife.
* Steven Wright as Bob, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Zootie's husband and Easy's older brother.
* Mickey Rooney as Fugly Floom, Miss Floom's uncle.
* Glenne Headly as Zootie, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Bob's wife and Easy's sister-in-law.
* Myles Jeffrey as Easy, one of the Flooms' chimpanzees who is Bob's younger brother and Zootie's brother-in-law.
* James Cosmo as Thelonius, a civilized Bornean orangutan who is a servant to Fugly.
* Eddie Barth as Nigel, a Bulldog residing in the hotel.
	+ Eddie Barth also voices Alan, an English Mastiff residing in the hotel.
* Adam Goldberg as Flealick, a disabled and talkative Jack Russell terrier.
* Danny Mann as Ferdinand, a Indian Runner duck.
	+ Mann also voices Tug, the Flooms' Panamanian white-faced capuchin
* Mary Stein as Miss Floom, the hotel's landlady and Fugly's niece.
* Stanley Ralph Ross as a Bull Terrier and Doberman Pinscher guard dog duo.
* Julie Godfrey as Hortense, the Flooms' neighbor.
* James Cromwell as Arthur Hoggett, Esme's husband.
* Russi Taylor as a poodle that lives on the streets.
	+ Russi Taylor also voices a choir cat
* Bill Capizzi as Snoop, an overzealous beagle who works at the airport as a security sniffer.
* Miriam Margolyes as Fly, a Border Collie who is Rex's wife and Babe's adoptive mother.
* Hugo Weaving as Rex, a Border Collie who is the farm's lead sheepdog and Fly's mate.
* Jim Cummings as a pelican
* Katie Leigh as a kitten
* Evelyn Krape as one of the farm's sheep
	+ Evelyn Krape also voices some alley cats
* Charles Bartlett as a cow
* Michael Edward-Stevens as a horse
* Nathan Kress as a puppy that lives on the streets.
* Paul Livingston as a chef at the charity event
* Kim Story as the judge
* John Upton as a boy at the hospital
* Matthew Parkinson as Nervous Waiter in the ballroom
* Julie Godfrey as Hortense the mean neighbor

The fish are voiced by Al Mancini and Larry Moss.

## Home media

The film was released on VHS, DVD (in both widescreen and pan and scan formats), and laserdisc on 4 May 1999. On 22 May 2001, the film was released on DVD as a 2-pack with the original *Babe*. On September 23, 2003, it was re-released on DVD as part of "The Complete Adventure Two-Movie Pig Pack" in its separate widescreen and pan and scan formats. On November 12, 2004, it was re-released onto DVD as part of a Family Double Feature, which includes *Babe* with the widescreen and the pan and scan versions of the film. On May 7, 2013, it was released on Blu-ray for the 15th Anniversary Edition of the film's release and re-released on Blu-ray by Fabulous Films Limited in UK on June 17, 2017.

## Music

That'll do by Peter Gabriel which was written for Babe pig in the city. It was used at the end credits in Babe pig in the city.

Non je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf

Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller and his orchestra

That's amore (The mice sing it while they are sitting on top of the suitcase while Esme Hoggett and Babe are going to the Flealands hotel)

Are you lonesome tonight? (The mice sing it while Babe was looking out the window at night and when the animals were back at the farm)

## Mice saying chapters

Scram, this is not a farm!

What kind of establishment do you think this is?

Chaos theory

A pig gets wise

The kindest heart

Sanctuary's end

Chaos revisited