Advantages: Brilliant family entertainment
Disadvantages: non

...Racing Stripes is a superb family movie, During a horrendous thunderstorm, a travelling circus, have trouble with the rope lashings on some of the trailers, amidst all the commotion a basket containing a young Zebra foul breaks free and is left in the road, The foal is discovered by horse trainer Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood) and is taken back to the stables where Nolan and his young daughter rear the foal, and name him Stripes. From the barn yard, the Zebra foal see's the horses from a racing yard, training for the prestigious Kentucky Open, and dreams of becoming a famous race horse himself, and maybe someday even winning the 'Open' himself. Stripes and all the other animals are brilliantly voiced over, by some of movies top names, such as Whoopi Goldberg and Dustin Hoffman. This is some of the best voice over I have ever seen... Read review

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Advantages: Its a talking animal movie!
Disadvantages: its a talking animal movie

...An abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing against the other racehorses. I have no children and like to believe that I am an Adult, but sometimes kids films are just better! This isn't Shrek and the humour isn't adult, dont be fooled that this is animated, just because of the film case. The animals are real! The story is a basic one and although largly based around the zebra who wants to be a racehorse, is a story of a father daughter relationship following the death of the wife/mother in a riding accident. The baby Zebra is lost by the circus and found by an expert horse trainer and named 'stripes' by his teenage daughter. Stripes admires the racehorses and believes that he too is a racehorse and can race with them... Read review

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Advantages: sweet rattle
Disadvantages: none

...Zebras, I've noticed play a fairly big part in little boys clothing. Before Scarlett was born we didn't know her gender so we brought some gender neutral clothes and some reduced blue sleep suits and vests, which featured zebras in various designs. Little girls are bunnies whilst little boys are zebras. Whilst looking round for Christmas presents for our little one we found this cute little zebra rattle. The zebra has blue and light blue stripes, small children must get a strange idea about animals! It has a smiley face and a playgro logo on the middle of it. It has a velvety, soft texture to it. Attached to the main body of the zebra is a clear plastic ring, with half of the ring showing and the other half in the zebra body. In the ring are six fairly large balls of the following colours, green,purple. Red, blue, orange and yellow... Read review

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Advantages: FAB - Funny, interesting, touching and more
Disadvantages: A little predicatble in places

...Sadly I missed Racing Stripes in the cinema but quickly got hold a copy once it became available on DVD and I am very glad that I did. The film, is a classic, focussing on a baby zebra who is left behind, in a severe thunderstorm by the travelling circus. The cure little fellow is found by a young girl takes her back to the small farm) that she and her Father run - of course all the animals and the Zebra whom is soon christened Stripes can talk. After a little persuasion her Father agrees that she can keep Stripes on the farm which is located next to a championship racing stable and track. It soon expires that the girls Mother was a championship jockey who sadly died in a racing accident and her Father was a championship trainer - but since the death of his wife he could no longer face the task of training the animals he feels... Read review

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Advantages: good fun for all the family
Disadvantages: cant fault this one

...The answer is of course is when it's a zebra as you will discover in this great fun-filled family film. Racing stripes is about Stripes - a baby zebra who after being abandoned by a circus is rescued by a young girl (Hayden Panettiere) who aspires to be champion jockey, and her protective widowed father (Bruce Greenwood)who doesn't want to see her injured or killed like her mother before her. Stripes is then taken to live on their farm with various farmyard animals. As he grows up he dreams of becoming a famous racehorse (he doesn't realise that he is a zebra - just thinks he is a stripey horse) and wants to run in the biggest race of the year. Will he fulfill his dream - well I won't give the game away - you'll just have to watch and see for yourself. Here's some background. This is not an animation but uses real animals which... Read review

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Advantages: Feelgood family fun
Disadvantages: It's very predictable

...Stripes is a young zebra accidentally left behind by a circus during a storm. He is adopted by kindly farmer Nolan Walsh and his daughter Channing and makes his home with the other farmyard animals. But what Stripes really wants is to be racehorse and with the help of his human and animal friends he strives to make his wish come true at the Kentucky Open. Belgian director Frederik Du Chau formerly made his living as an animator for Disney. Obviously their child-friendly ethics have rubbed off on him; choosing to direct this sentimental family film that takes Hans Christian Andersen’s “Ugly Duckling” as inspiration. He eschews animation in favour of live action shenanigans with humanising voice-overs. Its closest film relatives are the “Babe” movies, though there is less evidence of animatronics and technical jiggery-pokery here... Read review

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Advantages: Cute Cuddly and funny
Disadvantages: none that I can think of

...kinds of tigers are endangered. Tigers can breed at any time of year, but they usually mate in winter or spring. The mating period lasts 20 to 30 days. If a female does not find a mate at the right time, she may come on heat again later. A tigress bears cubs only once every three-four years. In the north the gap is even more -- only every four-five years. Normally, two to four cubs are born after a gestation period of about 113 days. On rare occasions a tigress may produce as many as six cubs, but the chances of all surviving are slim. A newborn cub weighs 800-1,500 GMS. It is 31-40 cm from head to tail. Its eyes usually open by the tenth day. Milk teeth appear after two weeks. Male tigers leave a female at birth! I like tigers because they are pretty. 7) Zodiac Zebra: Zebras can be recognised easily by their black and white striped... Read review

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Advantages: Easy and cheap to care for
Disadvantages: Not very entertaining for kids

...Zebra Finches are the friendliest, most thoughtful, widely available birds. Ciao don’t have a category for Zebra Finches at the moment so it’s everything beginning with Z. The average bird owner will have either a budgie or a canary, as they are inexpensive and easy to care for. Read on and I will tell you why I decided on Zebra finches over these other birds. Zebra finches are very small birds, smaller than a budgie being about 7-8 inches long, and about same size of a canary at 5 inches. They are called Zebra Finches due to the colourings on their necks. The males are grey, tan, white and obviously black and white striped. The females are generally white all over. Their eggs are tiny things only about a centimetre long and are off white in colour. As you all are likely to know I have two Zebra Finches called Niles and Daphne. I have... Read review

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Advantages: They remind us all how lucky we are to have an IQ
Disadvantages: Violent, nasty, vile scummy kids

...into their hair. Actually a pattern which many find fascinating. Especially due to the fact it looks like zebra stripes or similar But technically, a chav is a working class person. These days it is the person mentioned above... Read review

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Advantages: Good quality food, value for money.
Disadvantages: Most Tescos nowadays are out of town, bad if you don't have a car.

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