there's "art", and then there's art. Babe: Pig in the City (1998) is the latter. that audiences arrived expecting to see a cute talking pig sequel and found instead an all-animal cast version of The Shining, is of little concern. art. hatched from the fascinating frontal lobe of director/co-writer George Miller, the film departs the Hollywood cookie-cutter at every available juncture, an alternating odyssey, allegory and proberb. it's no wonder viewers didn't know what to think: the Mickey Rooney sequence is surreal, chase with the pit bull mildly disturbing, the orangetan character outrageously odd. nonetheless, auteurs take heart: Wikipedia notes Film critic Gene Siskel named it as his choice for the best film of 1998. fyi: Animal Logic was but one of the many fx teams enlisted for the film's countless effects, and their flash site totally rocks. art.