Babe/YMMV

Babe

• Adaptation Displacement: The movie is far more widely known than the original book, The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith.
  • Less of an Adaptation Displacement in Britain, where Dick King-Smith is a well-known children's author.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: After a while, you really forget that it's animatronics as opposed to real animals speaking.
  • Wait, those were animatronics?
    • They used animatronics for close-ups of Ferdinand and some other animals. Most of the animals, and all the wide shots, were of actual animals.
• Ungrateful Bitch: James Cromwell's granddaughter who doesn't get the TV dollhouse, but rather an amazing looking one hand made by James Cromwell.
  • What makes this more heartbreaking is James and Mrs. Cromwell's reaction to this. Really wants to make you smack the little brat.

Babe: Pig in the City

• Contested Sequel
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Je ne regrette rien features prominently in the movie, well before Inception used it as its central theme! The end credits, featuring "That'll do" by Peter Gabriel, also qualifies.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Some people, like Roger Ebert, believe that the second film is superior to the first.
• What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: One of the main points of contention is, like the more recent Where the Wild Things Are, where it sits on the handy-dandy "It IS for kids" / "It very definitely is NOT for kids" divide. Don't you dare suggest that it depends on the individual kid. This, combined with A Bugs Life opening a few days prior, effectively doomed the movie at the box-office.