Reviews

While on visiting Sweden & Denmark, I bought a heap of Scandanavian movies, "En Kort en Lang" being one of them. I had no idea what the movie was about, and from the moment it started I found it utterly charming and very funny, with some unexpected twists in the plot. The acting is great and the characters were all believable. My only gripe would be with a few bad make-up decisions, especially a less convincing mustache on a supporting character and an amateurishly assembled beard on another. But these are minor problems and did not spoil the movie for me. A real fun movie with a wonderful ending you'd expect from a romantic comedy!

This is an art movie - about animals! One can only imagine how difficult it must have been to make this movie and one must really appreciate the trouble taken with sets, lighting and camerawork to make this an extraordinary achievement. The easy route would have been to churn out some stale Hollywood follow-up story about Babe having to win another sheep competition and having to deal with a villain but then winning against all odds... Yawn. To go against this conventional expectation was brave and paid off, as it ensures that "Babe Pig in the City" can be viewed and enjoyed as an independent creation.