I watched this film one Sunday afternoon and I could not believe that I had not seen it before this was a great children's film and was very entertaining. Just when you think your eyes are deceiving you yes it really is, it's a Zebra and he is really cute. This film like all animal films has animals that can talk.
The film begins when a travelling circus accidently leaves a zebra in Kentucky on a miserable stormy night. The zebra is later found by Nolan Walsh played by Bruce Greenwood, a horse trainer who's given up his job after a riding accident killed his wife, his daughter Channing played by Hayden Panettiere who wants to be a jockey like her mum when she grows up, although her dad has other ideas for her, she decides to name the zebra Stripes who is voiced by Frankie Muniz.
Stripes then grows up and as he lives near race horses and a race track, stripes thinks that he is a horse and wants to race too. Some of the thoroughbred horses think this is stupid, but a wise pony named Tucker who is voiced by Dustin Hoffman decides to help train him to compete in the big race, whilst a filly named Sandy who is voiced by Mandy Moore becomes his friends and encourages him to race. Other animals in the film are a goat with the voice of Whoopi Goldberg and a hound that is voiced by Snoop Dogg.
This film has a lot more going on besides and has a great ending, I will not spoil it for you but you will like the outcome. This is a film that is great for children as it has messages about following your dreams whilst adding animals which all children love to watch.
You may well shed tears of both happiness and sadness as you watch this film, but I can pretty much guarantee you'll laugh and be thoroughly entertained. The characters that have me is tears of laughter are Buzz and Scuzz, two flies with the voices of Steve Harvey and David Spade, as they dance and sing through the film they are worth watching.
This film is great, I have to admit that I prefer it to Babe the loveable film about a pig, this film will keep you amused as is a film that you can watch again and again.
How helpful would this review be to a person making a buying decision? Rating guidelines
When you start watchingRacing Stripes, you may not be prepared for how unbelievably cute a ... more
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 fou...
Postage & Packaging: £1.21 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
When you start watchingRacing Stripes, you may not be prepared for how unbelievably cute a ... more
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 fou...
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 6 to 10 days...
Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) is abandoned one stormy night by a travelling circus, ... more
and when a local farmer finds him he is taken back to meet all the other farmyard residents. Tucker the old Shetland Pony, Franny the wise goat, Lightning the dozy ...
His stripes made him an outcast. His heart made him a hero! An abandoned zebra (voiced by ... more
Frankie Muniz) grows up believing he is a racehorse and with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl (Hayden Panettiere) sets out to achieve his d...
Postage & Packaging: £0.00 Availability: 3-5 working days
![Racing Stripes [DVD] [2005]](http://picnicb.ciao.com/uk/78487579.jpg "Racing Stripes [DVD] [2005]")
Nov 14th, 2008
very helpful by (68%):
helpful by (32%):
