‎Racing Stripes (2005) directed by Frederik Du Chau • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
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I'm not ticked off that the visual talking animal effects are horrendously atrocious. I'm not upset that the characters in this kid's movie are beyond the point of obnoxious, nor the forced celebrity voice cameos (like both David Spade and Steve Harvey as flies, Whoopi Goldberg as a goat, Dustin Hoffman as a horse, and a lazy dog voiced by the one and only Snoop Dogg). I also can't get too angry that the attempts at comedy in this fail tremendously. Because in most of these family movies, that's what you expect. But what does annoy me about Racing Stripes is how by the numbers, how predictable, how boring, how uninteresting, and how forgettable the whole experience is. I don't…
Film # 20 of Scavenger Hunt # 3!
Task # 8 A Film About Horses!
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This was a case of a film turning out completely different than i was expecting. For a start I thought this was going to be an animated film but it's actually live action with actors providing the voices of the animals, kind of like in Babe. I also thought the movie was going to be about a horse, wrong again (I obviously never read the back of the case or paid much attention to the front cover) as the film is actually about a circus zebra, accidentally left behind as the circus moves on during a thunderstorm. He's rescued by a farmer played by…
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The adage "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" is one that kids movies are prone to following, and while there strangely have been a real absence of talking animal movies, I almost think Babe should been seen as the high watermark and the best use of this genre of film. So we obviously needed Racing Stripes since Babe isn't relevant enough with Baha Men references... in 2005.
The story follows Stripes, voiced by Frankie Muniz (That's the Malcolm in the Middle career trajectory I'm most surprised by, not Bryan Cranston), a young zebra who ended up at a farm house at a young age due to a complete accident. He has dreams of becoming a racing horse, as he…
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I'm not ticked off that the visual talking animal effects are horrendously atrocious. I'm not upset that the characters in this kid's movie are beyond the point of obnoxious, nor the forced celebrity voice cameos (like both David Spade and Steve Harvey as flies, Whoopi Goldberg as a goat, Dustin Hoffman as a horse, and a lazy dog voiced by the one and only Snoop Dogg). I also can't get too angry that the attempts at comedy in this fail tremendously. Because in most of these family movies, that's what you expect. But what does annoy me about Racing Stripes is how by the numbers, how predictable, how boring, how uninteresting, and how forgettable the whole experience is. I don't…