Racing Stripes Reviews

Whether you're black or white or black and white it's for the kids... but only for the kids. It's now a classic example of lazy filmmakers using the talking animal gimmick as a crutch.

Honestly, I had some really low expectations about this flick but, somehow, my kids ended up buying the dvd so I still had to watch the damned thing (and since we have the dvd, I even watched it a couple of times by now…). I’ll give you that, young kids really love it. My youngest daughter have watched it maybe already 10 times so I guess it’s a real treat for the target audience but, God, I thought it was seriously tedious. I mean, come on, the story is about a zebra who thinks he is a horse and wants to become a racehorse... It was quite inane and to see all those talking animals didn’t really cheer me up. On a positive note, it was rather fun to see Hayden Panettiere before she became a huge star with 'Heroes' and I guess I would watch anything involving Dustin Hoffman, even if it means he will only voice a grumpy pony (although I’m pretty sure I have seen only the Dutch dubbed version so even this small pleasure was lost on me…). I know, it is just a family feature so I shouldn’t take it too seriously but I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing. To conclude, I have seen worse but it still remain a rather weak kid flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except if you have some very young kids who need to be entertained.

I like Stripes the Zebra.