The original is a beautiful, heart-warming film, that enchanted me when I was little and still enchants me now. While slightly inferior, the sequel Babe:Pig in the City is very entertaining but noticeably darker, with some suitably heart-warming moments and really stunning visual design and cinematography(some of the best of its year actually for me). Yes, it's not perfect, but it is one of the better sequels to anything I've seen. The main merit would have to be the animals, the adorable Babe, the chimpanzees, the singing cats and my favourite the mice who stole every scene they were in. I also really liked Ferdinand, but if anything I wish he was in more of the film. The lip movements are excellent, and the animals are well voiced by the likes of EG.Daily, Miriam Margoyles, Hugo Heaving and James Cosmo. However, the human characters weren't quite as impressive- Mickey Roony is given very little to do and James Cromwell doesn't quite have the warmth he brought to the first film. The most impressive was Magda Szubanski, and some of the most priceless scenes of the film was with her. I liked the story, and the script in general, but what I liked most aside from the animals was the music, with Organ Symphony, Il Trovatore(there was a time when I didn't like the Anvil Chorus very much, but it's growing on me) and Non Je Ne Regrette Rien, where can you go wrong? Overall, not terrific, but very enjoyable. 8/10 Bethany Cox