Good fucking lord.

This movie makes me feel fucking crazy. Every five minutes something happens that made me scream “what?!” A dark, nihilistic, Sonnenfeldian/Burton-esque fever dream fairytale in an extremely fascinating hodgepodge of a city, but one that also takes the stance of “people in the city fucking suck.” I can’t even pick out any one detail for fear of forgetting an even more crazy one, I’d have to give you a straight up synopsis. You can 100% see connections between this and Mad Max: Fury Road and anyone that says “what? George Miller is the Babe: Pig In The City guy??” should rewatch Babe: Pig In The City. I think this is a fascinating film. I think it might be a masterpiece.

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left with a million questions, none of which i want answered

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This is so much better than the first film it's insane

"A murderer's shadow lies hard across my soul," is a thing a dog says to a pig in this movie. These kind of sincere, crazy ambitious follies are few and far between. They need to be treasured.

flawless.

My one complaint is that Babe spends most of the movie across the bay from the actual city, looking out the window at this much cooler place. That’s like if Home Alone 2 all took place in Jersey City.

Babe: Pig in the City walked so Fury Road could run. 

(Honestly, this is incredible. I can’t believe I’m barely discovering it.)

An absolute feat of animal direction and puppetry and visual effects and production design and nightmares and creativity and big swings and studio "fuck you"s and ways to burn 90 million dollars. If George Miller emailed me to help fund Babe 3, I'd do some desperate and embarrassing shit to get him that money. You'd see a link to NFTs at the bottom of every one of these dumb little posts.

"A murderous shadow lies hard across my soul."

Bong Joon-ho should direct the third Babe movie.

George Miller absolutely didn't have to create sets or chase setpieces as insane as the ones he did here. We need to go back to ostensible kids films that were as goofy and weird and traumatizing as this and then realized with impeccable craft. Give them back to the Verbinski's and Dante's, etc. (This and Small Soldiers in the same year definitely a huge influence on my taste in movies.)