Racing Stripes

With the voices of Dustin Hoffman, Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

Rated PG

            “Racing Stripes” is an amusing family film that never really reaches the quality of recent family outings, like “The Incredibles” and “The Polar Express.” Nevertheless, the movie is worth watching if only to hear Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg voice farm animals.

            Filmed in a “Babe”-style level of animation (with live humans carrying the storyline), the film revolves around a Zebra named Stripes (voice of Frankie Muniz) who, despite his species, wants to be a race horse. With the help of the farm animals he lives with and his owners (Hayden Panettiere and Bruce Greenwood), he finally stops racing the mailman and is entered into a racing competition with horses.

            With the film’s charming underdog theme, “Racing Stripes” has difficulty balancing the storylines of the animal’s problems and the human’s problems, but ultimately ends up being energetic and great for children.

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