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 Barnes & Noble Youve heard of a quarter horse? Racing Stripes is a quarter film: One part Babe, one part National Velvet, one part Seabiscuit, and one part misfit/underdog sports movie. Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) is an accidentally abandoned circus zebra adopted by Nolan Walsh (a nicely understated Bruce Greenwood), who quit training horses in the wake of the tragic riding accident that claimed his beloved wife. He also forbids his teenage daughter, Channing (Hayden Panettiere), to ride. Stripes, meanwhile, makes himself at home on Walshs ramshackle farm, where he is befriended by the other animals and taunted by the purebred horses who race at the neighboring track. Adults may stampede from the room, but kids will cheer our sympathetic hero to the finish line while enjoying the physical antics and wisecracks of the barnyard animals. Making the best impressions in the star-studded voice cast are Whoopi Goldberg as a goat, Dustin Hoffman as a mentoring Shetland, Jeff Foxworthy as Reggie the rooster, and Snoop Dogg as a somnolent bloodhound. Quickly wearing out their welcome are two jive-talking flies voiced by Steve Harvey and David Spade, and a Mob-connected "hit bird" on the lam voiced by Joe Pantoliano (the character is out of place in a family film, and his clichéd gangster-speak is sure to fly over younger viewers heads). When the animals arent talking, Racing Stripes is a sweet and affecting (albeit formulaic) girl-and-her-zebra story, as Channing convinces her father to let her ride Stripes in the Kentucky Open, and he literally bets the farm on Stripes. The PG-rated film includes mild barnyard humor, ham-handed dialogue ("He loves to run. Its in his heart") and jokes that should have been left on the farm ("Well subdivide me and Kentucky-Fry me," crows Reggie upon meeting Stripes). This is the breed of undistinguished childrens film that plays best on home video, where kids can saddle it up any time. Donald Liebenson Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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