Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen,... Read allWilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 11 nominations
John Cleese
- Samuel the Sheep
- (voice)
Cedric The Entertainer
- Golly The Male Goose
- (voice)
- (as Cedric the Entertainer)
Kathy Bates
- Bitsy the Cow
- (voice)
Reba McEntire
- Betsy the Cow
- (voice)
Robert Redford
- Ike the Horse
- (voice)
André 3000
- Elwyn the Crow
- (voice)
- (as André Benjamin)
Sam Shepard
- The Narrator
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Australian extras in the County Fair scene were told at one point to make some sounds for the microphones to pick up, to sound like real Fair-goers. After one take with their normal accents, they were reminded to be American. Most promptly started just repeating, "Oh my God" and some other modern-day Americanisms.
- GoofsWilbur, a boar (male pig) is played by sows (female pigs). This is blatantly obvious in some scenes.
- Crazy creditsThe Nickelodeon logo segues into an animated series of farmyard illustrations. More illustrations of the storyline appear over the end credits.
Featured review
Bring your Kleenex. Maybe it's just coz I'm female, or maybe it's coz my mother read this book to me when I was little -- but every time a new word appeared in that web -- tears rolled down my cheeks!
It's very charming. They have kept to the time frame of the book -- it looks like the 1930s-1950s. They haven't tried to "modernize" it with pop culture references and silly jokes like so many kids' movies nowadays do.
Fern isn't break dancing with the pig. (No, there are no musical numbers.)
Fart jokes were kept to a minimum. (I think they are required by law nowadays to put fart jokes in all children's entertainment.)
They didn't dumb down the lovely words E.B. White used -- Charlotte uses her grand language as she speaks to Wilbur and spins her webs.
I kept thinking of "Babe" at the start of the movie. A white runt pig saved. Similar barnyard companions. Even the voice of Wilbur sounds like the voice of Babe. (Even tho Babe was voiced by a 32 y.o. woman and Wilbur by a 9 y.o. boy!) But I think the writers of Babe must have been fans of the classic "Charlotte's Web".
Steve Buscemi as the voice of Templeton the Rat is just perfect. (Poor guy even has a rat-like face -- is that why they cast him?) And the CGI animation is flawless. You can't tell the animated animals from the real ones. Flawlessly blended.
That little pig is SO cute at the beginning -- I just wanted to watch him play in the mud for 10 minutes. (But no, they kept the story moving along.) They even tried to make the spider cute, but that's quite a challenge. Still Julia Roberts' soothing motherly voice helps. (Nevertheless, the little girl next to me climbed into her grandma's lap when the spider appeared.)
And Dakota Fanning, as always, is a darling.
So go -- and if you loved the book as a child, bring plenty of Kleenex!
It's very charming. They have kept to the time frame of the book -- it looks like the 1930s-1950s. They haven't tried to "modernize" it with pop culture references and silly jokes like so many kids' movies nowadays do.
Fern isn't break dancing with the pig. (No, there are no musical numbers.)
Fart jokes were kept to a minimum. (I think they are required by law nowadays to put fart jokes in all children's entertainment.)
They didn't dumb down the lovely words E.B. White used -- Charlotte uses her grand language as she speaks to Wilbur and spins her webs.
I kept thinking of "Babe" at the start of the movie. A white runt pig saved. Similar barnyard companions. Even the voice of Wilbur sounds like the voice of Babe. (Even tho Babe was voiced by a 32 y.o. woman and Wilbur by a 9 y.o. boy!) But I think the writers of Babe must have been fans of the classic "Charlotte's Web".
Steve Buscemi as the voice of Templeton the Rat is just perfect. (Poor guy even has a rat-like face -- is that why they cast him?) And the CGI animation is flawless. You can't tell the animated animals from the real ones. Flawlessly blended.
That little pig is SO cute at the beginning -- I just wanted to watch him play in the mud for 10 minutes. (But no, they kept the story moving along.) They even tried to make the spider cute, but that's quite a challenge. Still Julia Roberts' soothing motherly voice helps. (Nevertheless, the little girl next to me climbed into her grandma's lap when the spider appeared.)
And Dakota Fanning, as always, is a darling.
So go -- and if you loved the book as a child, bring plenty of Kleenex!
- hellokristen
- Dec 8, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $85,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $82,985,708
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,457,353
- Dec 17, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $148,964,660
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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