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starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Peter Rainer - NY Magazine
starstarstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstarstar Rod Dreher - NY Post
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Richard Schickel - TIME

I liked Babe for all the usual reasons, but I like Babe: Pig in the City more, and not for any of the usual reasons, because here is a movie utterly bereft of usual reasons”

- Roger Ebert

Its inherent, insoluble problem is that in its frenzy to top the original, it has lost touch with the first film’s gently whimsical spirit

- Richard Shickel

Babe: Pig in the City

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This time Babe heads into the city to save his boss’s farm from foreclosure. James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Mickey Rooney, Mary Stein. Voices of E. G. Daily, Glenne Headly, Danny Mann, Steven Wright, James Cosmo, Roscoe Lee Browne. Director: George Miller (1998, G)

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