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I gave this movie 3 stars because my (very young) kids seemed to enjoy it, but I really cannot understand how anyone could compare this favorably to Babe the Pig. Babe is a sensitive, entertaining, and even intelligent movie. Gordy is nothing like it. Gordy is cheap, boring, and insulting to anyone with a modicum of intelligence. The acting is poor, the writing predictable, and the hairstyles drove me crazy. It really looked like it was made in 1985 instead of 1995. In contrast, Babe has such a timeless quality about it. My kids don't really like Babe, I assume, because it goes at a slower pace and is not so flashy, but I'm sure that once they are older, they will enjoy it much more than Gordy. Gordy just has no substance. If you are looking for something that you can enjoy with your children, this is not it!

Over the years I have watched many family films that can be just as entertaining for an adult as a child. The recent "Chicken Run" is one that comes to mind. "Gordy", however is not one of these films.

Its plot follows sappy, unentertaining, and stereotypical characters who make fun of a child's intelligence with cheesy humour and predictable actions that leaves out any chance for suspense or laughs.

The only thing this movie provoked me to think about was Gimme a break!"

If you're looking for a very well done, deep movie, I would recommend you to look elsewhere.

I became curious about the movie when my family and I were headed to our vacation to Charleston, SC. This was just shortly before it came out in theaters; the pig playing Gordy was visiting North Carolina (Statesville, I believe) where we stayed overnight. I wanted to see him but the travelling schedule didn't allow it.

I was given Gordy on VHS for Christmas '95 and I've only watched it one other time since. The acting isn't anything to write for nor are the effects for the pig's talking. I have to say though, I thought it was neat seeing a pig swim.

While visiting family with my four year old daughter we found a video of "Gordy" and put it on for her. She loves movies, but after about a half-hour she turned to me and said "I don't like this pig movie". She loves "Babe". It's nice to know she has some taste. The only thing remotely good about this film is Kristy Young, the little girl C&W singer, and the trained piglet seemed like a pretty good swimmer. In the half-hour we watched, the animals never looked like they were talking, the plot was completely uninvolving, and the acting was mediocre at best. One nice thing was finding out the reason that Tom Lester (Eb from "Green Acres") never got anywhere with his career. He's a one-note performer. At least Eb had some decent writers. Now my daughter is happily watching "The Aristocats".

I'll keep this seemingly inevitable comparison brief. Whereas Babe is a sweet, enchanting gem of a family film, Gordy for me isn't in the same league, in fact it is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Other than the bright and breezy country and western soundtrack and the fact that Gordy is somewhat adorable, this is rather charmless family fare. Gordy does look rather cheap, not in the scenery, the scenery is nice, but the flat and rushed camera-work does not do it justice. The story is very predictable and never seems to find a direction, the direction is sloppy, the script is tedious and unfunny and a vast majority of the jokes are corny. Add some horrible acting and every barnyard cliché in the book, do we really need the evil boyfriend idea again, and we have a film of low-quality and very little charm, also even for quite a short movie it drags badly. Kids might like it, but to be honest adults might find it an insult to their intelligence. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This is one of those obvious el cheapo movies that they make quick when they know a bigger more expensive movie involving something similar is coming a couple months later (Babe) The same thing happened with Antz (a bugs life was made first but was more expensive and was released a couple months after Antz while Antz was cheap and quick)

Gordy is a pretty cute little pig (that also talks, not too convincingly), I'll grant you that, but "he" is plugged into an uninvolving, cheerless, funless, far-fetched plot. Frankly, it's hard to believe that a pig's life could be so boring. The film too often seems like an excuse for some professional country singers to appear onstage and do their stuff; are there kids who are supposed to find those scenes entertaining? (*1/2)

This movie is PERFECT for watching with the whole family! My 3 year old was laughing out loud the WHOLE time!!! My 12 year old loved it just as much as we did. The plot was simple, so that small children could easily follow along with it. Doug Stone as the father was perfect! I can't say enough good things about this movie! And since there is a 10 line min, apparently I'm going to have to find things to say about it. omg I'like feeling dizzy, sorry ya'll but I took a pain pill for an abcessed tooth, and feeling a little light headed. And STILL it won't let me post this comment, Um..it was a cute movie, honestly. Made me chuckle all 12 thousand times I had to watch it.

This movie is cute and funny. Granted it is unrealistic but so what? It is a kids movie that all ages can enjoy.The pig is very cute as are the two kids. It has some very funny scenes with Gordy in costumes. It also has some good old country music. Boxcar Willy, Jim Stafford and Roy Clark and other country stars appear as themselves. It is a feel good movie with a happy ending. If you need profanity, nudity, sex,violence or rude and disrespectful kids in a movie in order to like it then skip Gordy. It has none of that. The only dirt in this movie is actual dirt on the pigs. Gordy is a good movie for those who like clean, lighthearted family entertainment.

I had the misfortune of seeing Gordy in the theater at the age of ten. Even then, I couldn't stand it. I saw part of it again the other day on TV. Wow, what a travesty. It was bad enough that the pig didn't actually move his mouth with the words, but you can actually hear him snort over his English. The performances are all horrifically over the top, the plot is ridiculous, there are terrible country songs, and, on at least one occasion, a "tree" that moves when leaned against.

If anyone ever tries to tell you that Gordy is "a good family film" or "almost as good as Babe" or any such thing, don't talk to that person anymore. They are not you're true friend. If you value your soul, steer clear of this epic shame of a picture at all costs.

Miss Kitty's, a bar/dance hall that was featured in the movie, "GORDY" was located on Franklin Road in Marietta, GA. It was once a country dance hall known to many locals which went out of business shortly after The Crystal Chandelier opened in Kennesaw, GA...near Marietta. It is now known as "Cowboys" which features many current country artists for their weekend concerts. This was one of the few country bars (believe it or not) that existed in Metro Atlanta. What you see in the movie was what you got! It did look bigger in the movie that I remembered. However, the last time I visited Miss Kitty's was in 1991...21st birthday. Miss Kitty's...RIP. Good fun.

On the foreclosed Meadowbrook Farm, a young piglet named Gordy (voiced by Justin Garms) embarks on a journey to find his family after his mother, father, and siblings are all sold and taken up north. On the road Gordy is taken in by traveling country singers Luke McAllister (Doug Stone), Luke's daughter Jinnie Sue (Kristy Young), and Cousin Jake (Tom Lester). After playing an engagement for the wealthy Royce family consisting of family patriarch industrialist Henry Royce (Ted Manson), Ted's daughter Jessica (Deborah Hobart), Jessica's boyfriend Gilbert Sipes (James Donadio), and Jessica's lonely son Hanky (Michael Roescher), Gordy becomes a hero after saving Hanky from accidentally drowning in a swimming pool. The McAllisters give Gordy to Hanky and soon Hanky is able to understand Gordy because he "took the time to listen". Meanwhile Henry capitalizes on Gordy's "Hero pig" image much to the ire of Jessica and Gilbert who want Jessica to be the face of the company as Gilbert tries to sabotage Gordy's image.

Gordy is 1994 family film that is notable for coming out slightly before the superficially similar (but much more successful) Babe. Gordy had actually started back in the 60s with writers Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat of Green Acres who tailored the original script then titled "Waldo" as a vehicle for Arnold the Pig who appeared on the series. The script remained un produced for several decades until it was eventually acquired by Sybil Robson for her company Robson Entertainment in 1993 10 years after Sommers and Chevillat had passed on. A re-write was subsequently done by Leslie Stevens who was credited as co-writer alongside Sommers and Chevillat with the latter two receiving story credit. The film was eventually acquired by Miramax and theatrically released in May 1995 where it opened at number 8 at the box office behind several holdovers and the number one opening of Crimson Tide and the film only wound up earning $3.9 million against a $6-7 million budget. Robson blamed the underperformance on the lackluster distribution with Miramax which coupled with the toxic threatening attitudes of one of Miramax's executives lead to Robson getting a settlement from the company (at least according to various news sites). All these years later Gordy has largely been forgotten with the exception of the occasional riffing by online comedians or semi-memetic appeal of one of its songs, but aside from that Gordy is harmless but it's also bland and sloppily constructed.

Despite the fact the movie went theatrical, the filmmaking has a very direct-to-video or TV movie of the week type feel with the opening shots of Meadowbrook coupled with the lackluster animal voiceover techniques just leaves the film feeling very lacking. Granted it's not the worst I've seen as projects like Going Bananas or Nukie featured similar scenes done to much poorer effect, but when compared against Disney's Homeward Bound remake which many of the same approaches Gordy did but with more polish this really doesn't cut it. But aside from the technical issues, the story also feels very disjointed with a number of false starts such as the country music family feeling like an unnecessary addition before Gordy winds up with the Royce's. There's also that element of Gordy's speech being able to be understood by Hanky which is built on pretty flimsy logic even by the standards of children's filmmaking and when the film goes into Gordy managing the company with Hanky as his translator (yes, really) it feels massively misguided for the kind of film it is because kids don't generally care about business dealings and marketing so I doubt they'll be all that enthused by scenes of Gordy appearing on Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Gordy feels exactly like what it is: Cheap disposable children's entertainment. The fact that this had writers of Green Acres isn't all that surprising as the whole thing does have the feel of a pre-Rural Purge TV project that would've followed the same lines of Mr. Ed or Green Acres, but when you compare it to other animal centric movies from around the same time Gordy isn't worth a viewing especially when other pig centric movies like Charlotte's Web and Babe are right there and better.

so,this is a really stupid movie with a stupid plot.i'm not going to waste my time telling you what the plot is.The acting sucks the talking pig effects suck(basically they gave him a bit of chewing gum)and it is just a stupid stupid movie that completely rips off the Bebe story,seriously you'd think it was made by asylum.(oh by the way that girls grin is kinda creepy)but thats not the worst of it.....it got a rap music video!0_0WTF!?aside from that i have nothing else to say but this review has to be at least 10 lines long so i might as while say this.Has anybody seen my keys,i think i left them at school but i cant help feeling that ,oh wait thats 10 lines so anyway the movie's stupid and that's pretty much it

I didn't like this. The story is so badly written, and makes the movie confusing. Babe has a sweet and simple story. Gordy has a story that leads to some stupid business plot about Gordy and a company. It's complex to young children and may even insult their intelligence about how confusing this is. The film is cheap and has aged poorly because it looks more like the 1980s and Gordy doesn't even have his mouth move to what he's really saying. The characters can be one dimensional business men, or kids, and also the acting for the characters is mediocre. Gordy may be cute, but his voice can be a little annoying. It's really a bad film that I would rather people watch Babe than this. Also, the film is just dull and predictable in the middle. I give this a 4/10. I doubt you'll really like this unless you're a huge fan of pigs.

Controversial, but I didn't dislike this or think it was as bad as the 3.7 on IMDb suggests or as the promotional material made me think it was going to be. Early animal talking exchanges don't come off well. Bright early moment is Kristy Young performing Your Heart's on the Line. Ted Manson, better known from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, gives one of the best performances. "Thanks to the hero pig, I'm a shoo in!" is my favourite line from the film. It obviously has a kids appeal, but its ambitions don't extend beyond that. It's all very predictable.

I love this film. An adventure takes place from a country farm where Gordy's father taken away up North and later learned that his family joined, he tries to find them.

The pig makes friends with a daughter of a country music singer (Kristy Young), which country music singer Doug Stone plays her father. Later they make friends with a wealthy family which Gordy saves a wealthy son from the pool.

That's a fun movie to watch.

Plus country music singers like Christy Lane, Moe Brandy, Roy Clark, and Tom Lester of "Green Acres" fame appears in this movie as well.

I give it 10 out of 10.

I can't belive that this failed at the box office! and only about 120 imdb useres voted on it, and a 3.3! come on, its a good movie.

The plot was good, the acting, and the whole movie basicly. Best Pig movie I have seen. Its as good as Babe.

I just know that this would be in the bottom 100 if more people would vote on it, Poor Gordy.

I Grew up in this film It is a good movie. I give it a 7

I guess it depends on your taste, but I saw this movie when I was 19. I was dragged by parents to see this with my 8 year old brother. I was sucked into the story and found myself enjoying the movie tremendously. I've always recommended the movie to anyone who has little kids. People compare this to "Babe" a lot since both movies came out at the same time. However, I found that I was bored by "Babe", so I guess I'm one of the few people who gives "Gordy" higher marks than "Babe". Some people say the plot is far-fetched or contrived or whatever, but come on, people. It's a movie for little kids.