Babe: Pig in the City

Cast View all

	Magda Szubanski	Mrs. Esme Cordelia Hoggett
	James Cromwell	Farmer Arthur Hoggett
	Mary Stein	The Landlady
	Mickey Rooney	Fugly Floom
	Elizabeth Daily	Babe
	Danny Mann	Ferdinand
	Glenne Headly	Zootie
	Steven Wright	Bob
	James Cosmo	Thelonius
	Nathan Kress	Easy
	Myles Jeffrey	Easy
	Stanley Ralph Ross	The Pitbull
	Russi Taylor	The Pink Poodle
	Adam Goldberg	Flealick
	Eddie Barth	Nigel
	Bill Capeze	The Sniffer Dog
	Miriam Margolyes	Fly
	Hugo Weaving	Rex
	Roscoe Lee Browne	The Narrator
	Paul Livingston	Hot Headed Chef
	Babs McMillan	Matriarch
	Matt Parkinson	Nervous Waiter
	Julie Godfrey	Suspicious Neighbour
	Kim Story	Judge
	Richard Carter	Detective

Crew View all

Director	George Miller
Writer	George Miller, Judy Morris, Mark Lamprell, Dick King-Smith
Producer	Catherine Barber, Barbara Gibbs, Colin Gibson, Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Guy Norris, P.J. Voeten
Musician	Nigel Westlake
Photography	Andrew Lesnie

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WSR Narrative Review

Story Synopsis:
The sequel to the Oscar®-nominated movie, Babe: Pig In The City takes friends Babe, Ferdy and Mrs. Hoggett on an event-filled trip to the often not-so-friendly big city on a mission to raise enough money to save their farm. During the trip, Babe becomes separated from Mrs. Hoggett and must cope with the often not-so-friendly animals inhabiting the strange and foreboding city.

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced DVD viewed in component video, exhibits fine detail and definition. Color balance is wonderfully rendered with natural fleshtones, deep solid blacks and fairy-tale enhancing vibrant hues. Contrast and shadow delineation are nicely rendered throughout, with excellent visual information between darkness and total picture black. Digital compression artifacts and occasional image enhancement sometimes distracts on the DVD. Still the overall appearance is beautiful and will surely please.

Soundtrack:
The discrete 5.1 Dolby® Digital soundtrack is terrific with fascinating dialogue synced to the animals’ facial expressions. Though obviously ADR-processed, the effect is satisfying and nicely integrates with the human characters’ dialogue. The music score is nicely recorded with an expansive soundstage that wraps deep into the surrounds. Surround envelopment is often aggressive and effects are often nicely delineated in the discrete’s split surrounds, with occasional center back surround imaging. The sound is often effectively dimensional, though at times there is no surround signal in discrete version and the soundfield collapses to the three front channels or monaural. Foley effects are perfectly produced. Bass sounds natural and at times deeply extended and .1 LFE enhanced. The soundtrack is perfectly enjoyable and wonderfully complementary to the appealing imagery.

DVD/LD Comparative Review:

Both the LaserDisc and DVD are pleasing no doubt due to the film’s fine telecine transfer. But the anamorphically enhanced DVD viewed in component video, exhibits finer detail and definition. Color balance is wonderfully rendered with natural fleshtones, deep solid blacks and fairy-tale enhancing vibrant hues. Contrast and shadow detail are superb throughout. Digital compression artifacts and occasional image enhancement sometimes distracts on the DVD, while minor noise and video artifacts on the LaserDisc are noticeable. The LaserDisc, and anamorphic and letterbox DVD are framed at 1.85:1.

The 5.1 Dolby® Digital soundtrack on DVD and LaserDisc and the LaserDisc matrix PCM soundtrack are terrific with fascinating dialogue synced to the animals’ facial expressions. Though obviously ADR-processed, the effect nicely integrates with the human characters’ dialogue. The music score is nicely recorded with an expansive soundstage that wraps deep into the surrounds. Surround envelopment is often aggressive and effects are often nicely delineated in the discrete’s split surrounds, with occasional center back surround imaging. The sound is often dimensionally holosonic though at times there is often no surround signal in discrete version. The matrix PCM version effectively bleeds surround envelopment for a more satisfying spatial experience. Foley effects are perfectly produced. Bass sounds natural and at times is .1 LFE enhanced.

This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality
Superb Music Score Recording Quality
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality
Superb Color Fidelity

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