Babe: Pig in the City
Babe Pig in the City is a 1998 AustralianAmerican comedydrama film and the sequel to the 1995 film Babe. It is cowritten, produced and directed by George Miller, who cowrote and produced the original film. Most of the actors from the first film reappeared as their respective roles, including James Cromwell, Miriam Margolyes, Hugo Weaving, Danny Mann, and Magda Szubanski. However, most of them have only brief appearances, as the story focuses on the journey of Babe and the farmers wife Esme in the fictional city of Metropolis.
At the airport in the city of Metropolis, a sniffer dog falsely detects that Babe and Esme are accused of carrying illegal substances. Airport security officers interrogate them, causing them to miss their connecting flight. An airport cleaner tells them about a hotel that is suitable for accommodating animals, so Esme and Babe go there. While Esme runs an errand, Babe chases a black and white capuchin monkey named Tug after he steals Esmes suitcase. Fleeing into a hotel room, Babe follows it and meets three clothed chimpanzees named Bob, Zootie and Easy, as well as Thelonius, an orangutan butler for the landladys elderly uncle Fugly Floom Mickey Rooney, a clown who kidnaps Babe to use in his act. Babe initially refuses but accepts when the chimps mention a reward hell receive after doing the act. When Esme returns, Fugly tricks her into thinking that Babe ran off into the city. Esme goes to look for Babe, but ends up getting arrested after causing an uproar with some thugs. Meanwhile, Fugly performs his clown act in a hospital, but Babe accidentally trips him and he throws a flaming torch into the stage curtains which catch fire, activating the sprinklers and forcing everyone out.The next morning, Fugly goes to the hospital in a food coma escorted by the landlady. Babe is in his room, hungry and waiting for Esme to return. That night, the chimpanzees try to steal food from a store and use Babe to distract two dogs, who chase Babe around the city. Babe falls into a river and swims away, but returns and saves one of the dogs from drowning. The dog becomes friends with Babe, and Babe invites him and the other homeless animals into the hotel. They share the food around and then sing, alerting the duck Ferdinand who had come after Babe from the farm. Zootie gives birth to twins. Animal control officers capture all the animals and take them away except for Babe, Tug, Ferdinand and a Jack Russell named Flealick. Esme is released from jail by the judge after explaining he
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