If you're a six-year-old girl, Racing Stripes is made for you, and you'll love it. It has all the ingredients necessary to thrill you and your little girlfriends: Big, beautiful horses, a gutsy young girl, a loving dad, talking farm animals and an underdog--errr, underhorse--who wins both the race and the heart of the lovely Arabian girl horse. Yeah, if you're a six-year-old girl, Racing Stripes is great entertainment.
Only thing is, to go see it you've got to subject an adult to this torture. The adult who drives you to the theater will be glaze-eyed by the time plucky Stripes crosses the finish line. Is there anyone over the age of ten who didn't know exactly how this movie would go from the moment little Stripes first decided he liked to run? Racing Stripes is so predictable--from the well-known voice actors to the tough-kid top competition and his arrogant sneaky father and the pretty Arabian love interest--that adults will groan as one cliché follows the last and prepares for the next.
So Racing Stripes isn't a bad movie, by any means; you just have to be the target audience to enjoy it. If you're not, it's 94 minutes of checking your watch and knowing that's 94 you'll never get back again.
Only thing is, to go see it you've got to subject an adult to this torture. The adult who drives you to the theater will be glaze-eyed by the time plucky Stripes crosses the finish line. Is there anyone over the age of ten who didn't know exactly how this movie would go from the moment little Stripes first decided he liked to run? Racing Stripes is so predictable--from the well-known voice actors to the tough-kid top competition and his arrogant sneaky father and the pretty Arabian love interest--that adults will groan as one cliché follows the last and prepares for the next.
So Racing Stripes isn't a bad movie, by any means; you just have to be the target audience to enjoy it. If you're not, it's 94 minutes of checking your watch and knowing that's 94 you'll never get back again.