![]() ![]() ![]() That may be a problem, however, if the story is really supposed to be about the animals. The sight of all these beasts sharing a secret world far removed from their masters is one of the film's more inspired touches.īuzz (voiced by Steve Harvey) and Scuzz (David Spade) get a fly's-eye view on things The horses, of course, mock Stripes for looking kind of funny, but one day they challenge him to show his stuff at the "blue moon races"-an illicit late-night equine gathering, apparently patterned after the midnight street-race scenes of The Fast and the Furious. Stripes has grown up next door to an estate where thoroughbreds are trained for the Kentucky Open, and he envies the bigger, more muscular horses who get to flaunt their speed on a regular basis. As directed by Belgian animator Frederik Du Chau (Quest for Camelot), Racing Stripes may have its problems-more on those in a minute-but in its own modest way, it is a fun, charming little family film that should keep the kids happy while giving parents a chuckle or two. As these things go, the film is certainly nowhere near as interesting or entertaining as the two Babe movies, but it is probably better than Cats & Dogs, if only because it has a fair bit of heart and takes place in a natural world that people of all ages can relate to. Racing Stripes is a live-action cartoon, one of those films in which real animals speak human dialogue through digitally animated lips and teeth. ![]() Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) and Channing (Hayden Pannetiere) form a bond from the giddy-up ![]()
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