Snatch is, of course, the new Guy Ritchie movie (insert pre-requisite mention of Madonna here). If you’ve seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels you know what to expect. Snatch is even more frenetic, fast-paced and violent than it’s predecessor, but doesn’t really cover any new territory.

See this movie anyway, if for nothing else than Brad Pitt who spends the majority of the movie covered in either soot, blood, bile or alcohol and speaks in a hilarious and indecipherable Irish dialect. Snatch is funny, it looks absolutely amazing, but there just isn’t anything beneath the surface.

Babe: Pig in the City, on the other hand, has a lot going on. While Snatch merely feigns social commentary, the second Babe contains almost nothing but. Class warfare, the loss of cultural identity and social decay are the primary topics. I’m not kidding here, the first Babe movie, is nothing like Pig in the City – which has to be the most disturbing movie to ever be labelled “General”. The movie includes a dog being hung and nearly drowned, a poodle prostitute and any number of other characters and scenes that are entirely inappropriate for a “children’s” movie. Hampered only by a weak ending which feels out of place, this movie both looks incredible and has a lot to say.

Read this bizarre review of Babe: Pig in the City by a group called the “ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture.” Among the areas they rate are “Offense to God,” “Sex/Homosexuality,” and “Impunity/Hate.”
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