Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Babe is a genuinely distinctive family film that blends live-action and animatronic animal performances with a warmly subversive take on farm life and identity. Its novelty is high — the film's tone, its earnest emotional sincerity, and the seamless integration of animal actors created something truly singular in the mid-90s. The ending, with Hoggett's quietly iconic 'That'll do, pig,' is one of cinema's most emotionally resonant closing moments. Plot and acting are solid but relatively simple by design — functional and charming rather than complex. Cinematography is competent and warm without being visually daring. The TMDB score of 6.3 seems low for a film with genuine craft and cultural staying power, so the breakdown leans slightly above that consensus.