On a budget of $30 million, he film grossed $63.6 million (domestic) and $254.1 million (worldwide).The film utilized realistic, Oscar-winning computer effects (animatronics and puppets, and digital-enhancement or CGI mostly for mouth movements, by Jim Henson""s Creature Shop and others), along with real pigs and border collies, to portray remarkable talking animals, including:Fly and Rex, border collie SheepdogsFerdinand the Duck (a rascal who thought he was a rooster to spare being eaten)the elderly ewe Maathe Persian house cat Duchessa rio of singing miceand of course, the runty, orphaned piglet BabeThe original film was followed by a less well-received sequel,Babe: Pig in the City (1998).A censored version of the reckless film, due to the Catholic League of Decency""s protests, resulted in alternate endings - but both finales were cataclysmic.Without it, this house cannot be properly run.Will you please remember that, Fraulein?" Since his wife died, naval hero Trapp has strictly helmed his house like a militaristic, humorless naval ship - there is no time for play and his regimented children function like a troop of automaton-sailors:Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies."During a shooting range competition of male one-upmanship (about the size of their guns and their accuracy at various distances), Riggs impressively shot six bullets at a far-away target, shaping the bullet holes like two eyes and a smile on the target""s head.Crew members told him that an electromagnetic cloud storm was moving through space and causing anomalies, including broadcasts of every electronic communication from Earth - from all time! Commander Vasich (Chris Ellis) called for the Alpha space pod, piloted by Pericles, to pass through the storm""s central core and take initial radiation and gamma-ray readings.