Babe (Widescreen Special Edition) |  | Director: Chris Noonan
Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 2464
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD22972D
ISBN: 0783285094
UPC: 025192297229
EAN: 9780783285092
ASIN: B0000AK7AB
Theatrical Release Date: August 4, 1995
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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The surprise hit of 1995, this splendidly entertaining family film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and screenplay, and deservedly won the Oscar for its subtly ingenious visual effects. Babe is all about the title character, a heroic little pig who's been taken in by the friendly farmer Hoggett (Oscar nominee James Cromwell), who senses that he and the pig share "a common destiny." Babe, a popular mischief-maker the Australian farm, is adopted by the resident border collie and raised as a puppy, befriended by Ferdinand the duck (who thinks he's a rooster), and saves the day as a champion "sheep-pig." Filled with a supporting cast of talking barnyard animals and a chorus of singing mice (courtesy of computer enhancements and clever animatronics), this frequently hilarious, visually imaginative movie has already taken its place as a family classic with timeless appeal. --Jeff Shannon
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 The Farm-Animals' Point of View, and Pig-Liberation February 7, 2010
Jan Peczkis (Chicago IL, USA)
If you love movies that portray anthropomorphized animals, or if you are one of those who think that pigs have been unfairly portrayed negatively, this one is for you. The farm animals speak to each other. The cat and dogs realize their value. The duck and pig are concerned that they have no role other than that of being eaten by humans.
So the duck and pig each try nontraditional roles: The duck preempts the rooster in waking everybody up, and the pig makes friends with the sheep and makes them obey the pig's requests (not commands). Fearing that the "mechanical rooster" makes the duck superfluous, and liable to be eaten for a meal, the duck gets the pig to cooperate with him in the removal of the alarm clock from the farmer's house.
The farmer gets to appreciate the pig more and more. The pig drives off a wolf attack on the sheep. The farmer decides to enter the pig in a sheep-dog contest, as there is nothing in the rules that explicitly says that the sheep-herding animal must necessarily be a dog. As he and the pig enter the field, the crowd roars in laughter and derision, thinking that he must be stark-raving mad, or some kind of practical joker. The farmer's wife, watching on television, faints from embarrassment. But the heroic pig has other ideas...
 Unskippable ads January 16, 2010
Spiff (Virginia, USA)
The pre-roll ad is unskippable. And long. And obnoxious. I paid for the DVD, I shouldn't have to wait through a 2 minute commercial to watch it.
PLEASE PUT THIS ON BLU-RAY!!!! January 2, 2010
J. C. House (Kansas)
That's all I'm saying - this movie screams out for Blu-ray! It's one of my top ten movies of all time, and has been for years. That'll do.
Forced child inappropriate previews December 16, 2009
kinnerton (Seattle, WA United States)
The movie is a classic, but I wouldn't purchase this DVD again. You are forced to sit through 10 minutes of previews, some of which are inappropriate for kids. There is no way to skip through the previews.
For the Holidays, Consider This Classic! November 11, 2009
Benjamin J Burgraff (Las Vegas)
Every Christmas, a parade of family-oriented DVDs flood stores, some very good, most mediocre and quickly forgettable, but this season, may I suggest a Classic that isn't holiday-oriented, but has more heart and love than you'll find in a stocking-full of themed releases? I strongly recommend 1995's "Babe".
A live-action (enhanced with puppets and animation) tale of an orphaned pig (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh), the understanding farmer who 'adopts' him (James Cromwell, who is FABULOUS!), and the barnyard animals who become his family, the film sparkles from the opening credits until the closing ones, enriched by a warm, wise narration by Roscoe Lee Browne. Chapters are introduced by three of the most lovable mice you'll ever encounter, and the chapter about Christmas, while only a small part of the story, is hilarious (the farm's somewhat paranoid duck, realizing what the main course of the holiday dinner will be, shrieks "Christmas is CARNAGE!").
While most farm-oriented family films tend to be either too juvenile or too cloyingly saccharin, "Babe" never falls into either rut, succeeding in being cute enough to enchant children, and sly enough to appeal to adults...and it is very, very funny, to boot! I dare you NOT to smile when Farmer Hoggett sings and dances for the sick pig, or when Babe does his 'stuff' at the Sheepdog Championship (I, myself, get teary-eyed, but I'm a sentimental kind of guy!)
If you haven't seen "Babe", or are searching for a movie the entire family will enjoy, you can't do better than this!
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