Movie -- 1995 -- Netflix
Babe
A piglet is taken from his mother, wins a guess-the-weight stall, and lands on Hoggett Farm among dogs Rex and Fly. He learns farm rules, that pigs are food, and how to herd sheep. Gentle talking-animal pictures with a hard opening separation and a 'pork' threat that is the load, even at G.
Not suitable under 5; parental guidance to 8 (taken from Mum, animals as food, Rex's fight, Maa's death); ok from 9.
- Not suitable
- Parental guidance
- Ok
GentleGuide scale for sensitive kids. Not an ACCM or Classification Board rating.
About this title
- Classification
- G
- Length
- 91 minutes
- Consumer advice
- Very mild themes
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Before you press play
A talking-animal farm story with a soft voice-over and a sharp underside. Babe is taken from Mum, dogs run a hierarchy, Christmas dinner means someone dies, and a cat tells him what pigs are for. Kindness from Fly and Hoggett is real. The food-chain is not a joke for sensitive kids.
- Taken from mother
- Farm hierarchy
- Animals as food
- A dog who adopts him
- Rex angry and injured
- A sheep who dies
- Finding a job on the farm
What may feel big
Mum loaded onto a meat lorry; Babe in a sack; Rex laying down the law; Fly's puppies sold; 'Christmas means carnage'; a duck killed off-screen; Rex attacking Fly and biting the farmer; wild dogs killing Maa; a shotgun aimed at Babe; the cat's 'pigs are for eating'. The trials ending is warm. The opening and the pork talk are the bruise.
4-6. Four is below this scale. Five and six need a grown-up for Mum leaving, Christmas dinner, Maa, and the gun. The pig is dear; the farm is not only cute.
7-9. A fair try with someone beside them. Pause for the lorry, the shotgun, and the cat. Animal-loving kids may take 'pork' harder than the dogs' fight.
10-12. They can hold a G-rated farm that still tells the truth about meat. Maa and the gun can still make someone look away.
Triggers in this guide
Counts are how often that theme shows up in the notes -- not when it happens.
- Sadness 4
- Separation 2
- Peril 2
- Violence 1
- Relational Conflict 1