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When you start watching Racing Stripes, you may not be prepared for how unbelievably cute a young zebra is. A travelling circus accidently abandons an adorably helpless zebra in the middle of Kentucky on a stormy night. Fortunately, the wee zebra is found by Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood, The Sweet Hereafter), a brilliant horse trainer who's given up his calling after a riding accident that killed his wife. His daughter Channing (Hayden Panettiere, Raising Helen) names the zebra Stripes and, before you know it, Stripes has grown to young adulthood and is aching to race at a nearby track. Thus begins a fairly formulaic triumph-over-adversity tale combined with talking animals--but Racing Stripes understands its formula and executes it without any pretensions. It doesn't hit the bullseye struck by Babe (an earlier triumph-over-adversity tale combined with talking animals), and there are bad puns and gags aplenty, but Greenwood's solid presence gives the movie an unexpected emotional fullness. Featuring a bizarre assortment of voices for the animals, including Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Joe Pantoliano (as a Mafioso pelican), Steve Harvey, David Spade, and Snoop Dogg. --Bret Fetzer
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Sucked
This movie (I this is my trademark when I highly disapprove of what the movies come out with) sucked to high heaven.
I have been a longtime fan of the horse racing world. It is a horrible thing to stick this tape in the player and call it a "Horse race".
The movie tryed to get the sympathy vote. Like they needed to win or the zebra was going to get put down if he doesn't and the prom princess daughter was going to get killed if she didn't win.
There's a horrible lesson for kids to see in this film: Winning is the Key to Happiness. To save your child's brain, WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING!!! You will thank me later.
The thing thinks that a zebra winning a fixed race can warm family's hearts over. I'm flattered, for my heart is cold ice.
This weekend, I'm going to my grandma's. To see REAL horses run a REAL race in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. I advise you do the same.
Really Enjoyable
I was unsure about Racing Stripes, but in the end I really liked it. It's a sweet story (although sappy in some parts) The best part are the voices, an all-star cast that manages to bring humor. The humor isnt too kiddish, so it's ok for adults too. Racing Stripes is no Babe, but it's close.
HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
Seems like ever since BABE, we've been intrigued by animals talking to one another and their interminable desire to overcome adversities and become heroes. RACING STRIPES joins the list as one of those films and I enjoyed it very much. Our hero this time is a zebra who is lost by a circus troupe and saved by a young former horsetrainer who has given up training since the death of his wife years earlier. He has a spunky daughter who wants to race the zebra. But the real stars of the movie are the farm animals and their misadventures in aiding Stripes (the zebra) in his quest. Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) voices the upstart zebra; Mandy Moore is the filly who falls for him; Dustin Hoffman is the crusty little shetland who wants to train the zebra; Whoopi Goldberg, the sassy goat; Jeff Foxworthy the garrulous rooster; Steve Harvey and David Spade steal the show as two flies who figure in the fun; Snoop Dogg is the lazy bloodhound and Joe Pantoliano, the Jersey pelican. They're all fine and add some color to the proceedings. The humans take second banana, and include Bruce Greenwood, Wendie Malick and M. Emmet Walsh, but it's the animals who give us the most fun. Nice songs, too from Sting and Bryan Adams.
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