![]() Whenīabe goes to live with Farmer Hoggett (James Crowell) and his wife (Magda Szubanski), he is taken under the wing of Fly (Miriam Margolyes), a maternal sheepdog who knows the ways of the farm. Narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne, the story unfolds as a series of episodic vignettes introduced by chapter titles, which follow the rites of passage of Babe, whom Christine Cavanaugh plays as a slightly timid but ultimately brave child. Particularly evocative are Hugo Weaving as Rex, a proud, short-tempered sheepdog with a hearing disability Evelyn Krape as Old Ewe, the fussy but good-hearted grande dame of the farm's flock of sheep, and Danny Mann as Ferdinand, a cheeky ![]() And the actors' voices imbuing farm animals and domestic pets with distinctive personalities are unusually ![]() The movie's blending of real animals and computer-animated puppetry is seamless to the point that one hardly notices the shifts. Soundtrack that treats Babe's ovine aspirations as an Olympian quest for gold. The one incongruous element is an overbearing "Rocky"-style ![]() In barnyard society and insists on behaving like a sheepdog.Īdapted from Dick King-Smith's book "The Sheep-Pig," the movie maintains a refreshingly light touch in spinning a fable about individualism and conformity. ![]() Babe By STEPHEN HOLDEN he title character of "Babe," an endearing children's movie from Australia, is a plucky little pig who rebels from his assigned role ![]()
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