![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy, brings warmth and resonance to the role. The underappreciated Greenwood, so solid in movies such as “Thirteen Days” in which he played John F. Pantoliano’s shtick also feels hackneyed, especially after the animated, mob-themed “Shark Tale,” but he does offer a great line when he mistakes the zebra for an ex-con because of his stripes.Īs for the human beings, they’re much better than you might expect in a feel-good kids flick. (The proliferation of scatological humor will crack the kiddies up, but prevent adults from enjoying the film completely.) The enthusiastic young zebra gets help from a filly named Sandy (Mandy Moore), a New Jersey pelican named Goose (Joe Pantoliano, relegated to regurgitating every famous line from every mob movie, ever) and a couple of flies named Buzz (Steve Harvey) and Scuzz (David Spade), whose painfully repetitive routine consists of singing songs like “U Can’t Touch This,” passing gas and wallowing in piles of poop. Together they sneak their way into the prestigious Kentucky Open, where Stripes competes against the spoiled thoroughbred Trenton’s Pride (voiced by Joshua Jackson from “Dawson’s Creek” with appropriate frat-boy swagger). Stripes wants to race, and the farmer’s daughter, Channing (Hayden Panettiere), wants to be a jockey, but her overly protective father won’t allow it following her mother’s death in a riding accident. Snoop Dogg growls lazily a couple of times as a bloodhound named Lightning. Jeff Foxworthy voices Reggie the rooster (though he’s essentially doing his you-might-be-a-redneck act, wearing feathers atop a barn). Whoopi Goldberg provides the voice of Franny the goat, who keeps all the other animals in line. Like Babe, Stripes the zebra lives on a farm, where he arrived after horse trainer Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood) found the former circus animal abandoned on a country road and brought him home.Īnd like Babe, Stripes is surrounded by a menagerie of computer-enhanced creatures who crack wise - only here their voices are provided by a much higher-profile assemblage of celebrity talent, a joke in itself in Belgian director Frederik Du Chau’s movie. Actually, he thinks he is a racehorse, and is devastated to learn otherwise when he grows up (and is voiced eagerly by “Malcolm in the Middle” star Frankie Muniz). Whereas the talking little piggie of “Babe” wanted to be a sheepherding dog a decade ago, the talking baby zebra of “Racing Stripes” wants to be a racehorse. ![]()
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