Racing Stripes

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My 5 year old was just invited to a birthday movie party to go see Racing Stripes which is rated PG. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Anyone know anything about the movie and it's rating?

 

Thanks,

GP

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The fine print in the rating window of the poster reads: "Mild crude humor and some language".

 

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Author: rob-pereyda from Sunnyvale, CA

 

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I just got back from an advance screening of the film. It was mostly a fun movie, especially if you have small children with you.

 

One problem I had with the film was the movement of the mouths. The technique is a little old-fashioned, so it takes about 20 minutes of film-watching for the awkwardness of it to go away. That's really fine though, since the first twenty minutes aren't that exciting anyways, except for a blurt in the rain explaining how Stripes (the zebra) ends up on the farm.

 

The flies were a little bit over the top at times, but maybe that was just David Spade being David Spade. Not that it was bad, but I knew it was him as soon as it opened its mouth.

 

I thought M. Emmet Walsh added a really nice touch to the film. He had the same homely quality he had in Christmas with the Kranks, so I think he was probably casted to accent that ability of his.

 

All in all, this is definitely a family film, and definitely not a date film...unless your date is into zebras.

 

Fun, fun fun...fun with stripes.