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Racing Stripes’ stock story about someone different trying to accomplish something extraordinary, overlaid with a pretty standard father/daughter conflict, could have come off as bland, flat, and cheap as it sounds.

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That kind of attitude is what helped make those family movies of the past such a success, and Du Chau has it on full display here. While the scene obviously suffers a little slickness due to limited budget, it is audacious to even attempt something so big in such a throwaway-probably could have gone straight to video-kids movie. Hundreds of horses group riderless on the screen together, pawing at the ground in the dark, an animal version of the street racing scenes from The Fast and the Furious. Most notably present is a miniature pony named Tucker (Dustin Hoffman, voice), a goat named Franny (Whoopi Goldberg, voice), and a stool pigeon pelican named Goose (Joe Pantoliano, voice).ĭirector Frederik Du Chau goes further than you’d expect in a film like this, attempting several really big sequences involving things like moonlit horse races. The farm is littered with a cast of quirky, talking, creature characters in addition to the Frankie Muniz voiced zebra. Animals moving their lips realistically to form human words is certainly a welcome improvement over the days of rubbing peanut butter on Mr. It’s amazing how seamless, from a technical perspective, this special effect has become. Whenever Nolan and Channing aren’t around, the animals stop playing dumb and get chattering.

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Though the movie takes place in what I can only assume is modern day, all of Nolan Walsh’s farm equipment seems to have been time warped straight in from 1952. Nolan brings the baby home to his daughter Channing (Hayden Panettiere) and together the pair nurture and raise the not-so-creatively dubbed “Stripes” on their outdated farm, a place which has a strange tendency to resemble the home of Ma and Pa Kent. Years later, in the midst of a massive storm, he finds a baby zebra left behind when the local circus broke camp. Walsh retired from the racing business after his wife was killed in a tragic riding accident. Racing Stripes co-stars poor, ignored Bruce Greenwood doing his very best John Schneider impression as ex-race horse trainer Nolan Walsh.