Fetch the pail! All of a sudden Jason is en fuego! He goes months and months having never won the Threes, and now he's nabbed two Tuesdays in a row. Jason now has the much coveted "matching medals," one for each side of the chest. All homemade from construction paper, of course. Millar74 remains no slouch, coming in second this time, with Sean Kilgore in third.
So what film featured Hugo Weaving (the voice of Megatron in Transformers!), fellow Aussie Naomi Watts, and James Cromwell? That'll do, Inviso-Text. That'll do...
Okay, so this week's was a bit tricky. Yes, it was Babe: Pig in the City, director George Miller's fantastic, almost Brazil-like 1998 sequel to Babe. Pig in the City is one of those rare, delightful cases where the sequel is--in its own, unique way--as great as the original, if different (and a bit darker) in tone and style.
Weaving (The Matrix, Lord of the Rings) reprised his voice role as Rex the Sheepdog from the first film, and Cromwell appears once again at the beginning as Farmer Hoggett. The good farmer is injured and, on their way to a distant fair, his industrious wife (the wonderful Magda Szubanski) and prize-winning sheepdog pig get sidetracked in the Big City.
Now the Naomi Watts part was a bit of a sneak. She simply does "additional voices" for some of the film's many, many talking critters. (At the time, Watts had an ongoing acting career in Australia in various TV movies, but Babe:PITC was a couple years before she would make a splash in Hollywood in Mulholland Dr.)
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