Racing Stripes ★★ 2005 (PG) Farmer Nolan Walsh (Greenwood), finds a baby zebra (voiced by Muniz) left by a traveling circus in rural Kentucky and raises him on his farm. Stripes (what else would you call a zebra?), grows up yearning to be a racing horse, just as Channing (Panettiere), the farmer's daughter, yearns to be a jockey. The plot thickens when we learn that Walsh is a former horse trainer whose wife died in a riding accident and has since forbidden Channing from racing. Hmmmm…do you think Channing and Stripes will fulfill their dreams together? Movie is a strange combination of "Babe," "National Velvet" and "Charlotte's Web." While they use live animals in the movie they did computer-enhance their mouths for the speaking parts, which sometimes came off a little creepy. Kids will enjoy it, but mom and dad might get bored with its routine plotlines. 102m/C DVD. US Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere, M. Emmet Walsh, Wendie Malick;
Director:
Frederick Du Chan;
Writer:
Frederick Du Chan, David F. Schmidt;
Writer:
David Eggby;
Cameo:
Mark Isham; V: Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joshua Jackson, Jeff Foxworthy, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg.
