History Film / RacingStripes

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Channing's mother, Carolyn, was killed when her racehorse stumbled multiple years prior to the film.]]

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-->'''Goose''': "Here's the whole risoto. I'm a hit-bird who had a little mishap with Sammy Seagull, Freddie Flamingo, Johnny Storkanado. And now Sammy, Freddie and Johnny are all after me.

* EagerRookie: Stripes challenges Trenton's Pride, a trained professional, to race at the Blue Moon Races. [[spoiler:It does not end well.]]

* InterspeciesFriendship:

* SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying: The Kentucky Derby is referred to as the Kentucky Open, which is the name of a golf tournament. The Kentucky Derby was also a turf race, but in the real world, it is race run on the dirt. Also, there are no farms near Churchill Downs, the name of the racetrack of the Kentucky Derby, so that Stripes could not see the racetrack.

* TheBully: Trenton's Pride and other horses, except Sandy.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:An alternate ending shows Stripes and Sandy having a ze-horse foal.]]

* SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying: The Kentucky Derby is referred to as the Kentucky Open, which is the name of a golf tournament. The Kentucky Derby was also a turf race, but in the real world, it is race run on the dirt.

* EagerRookie: Stripes challenges Trenton's Pride, a trained professional, to race at the Blue Moon Races. It does not end well.

* MeaningfulEcho: "Not look back, and leave it all on the track!"

* ToiletHumor: Goose laments that his aim with his bird droppings isn't very good. At the end of the film, he succeeds in landing one of the villain.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Stripes challenges Trenton's Pride to race at the Blue Moon Races. It does not end well.

* ExcusePlot: Non-video game example: they admit in the commentary the flies were basically there to give them a reason for certain camera angles, like around the hoofs and whatnot.

* ToiletHumor: Goose laments that his aim with his bird droppings isn't very good. At the end of the film, he succeeds in landing one of the villain.

--> Tucker (to Goose): With the size of that pecker, I should've known you'd be a big mouth.

* InterspeciesFriendship

-->'''Goose''': "Here's the whole risoto. I'm a hit-bird, who had a little mishap with Sammy Seagull, Freddie Flamingo, Johnny Storkanado. And now Sammy, Freddie and Johnny are all after me.

* AwardBaitSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGCyq1yOb4 Taking The Inside Rail]] by Sting.
* BabiesEverAfter

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (Creator/BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in one of her several sports-related roles); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of Creator/DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of Creator/WhoopiGoldberg), a nervous big city pelican named Goose (voice of Creator/JoePantoliano) a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (Creator/BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in one of her several sports-related roles); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of Creator/DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of Creator/WhoopiGoldberg), a nervous big city pelican named Goose (voice of Joe Pantoliano) a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

* CaliforniaDoubling: The state of Kentucky is played here by South Africa (primarily Pietermaritzburg).

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in one of her several sports-related roles); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of WhoopiGoldberg), a nervous big city pelican named Goose (voice of Joe Pantoliano) a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in one of her [[RememberTheTitans several]] [[IcePrincess sports]]-[[BringItOn related]] [[{{Series/Heroes}} roles]]); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of WhoopiGoldberg), a nervous big city pelican named Goose (voice of Joe Pantoliano) a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (Creator/HaydenPanettiere, in one of her [[RememberTheTitans several]] [[IcePrincess sports]]-[[BringItOn related]] [[{{Series/Heroes}} roles]]); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of WhoopiGoldberg), and a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

2005 combination of live-action humans and FX-assisted talking animals (though like ''{{Film/Babe}}'' and ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' the latter never talk to the former). A circus truck loses a baby zebra near the farm of a widowed former trainer (BruceGreenwood) and his teenage daughter Channing (HaydenPanettiere, in one of her [[RememberTheTitans several]] [[IcePrincess sports]]-[[BringItOn related]] [[{{Series/Heroes}} roles]]); the zebra, named Stripes (voiced by Hayden's brother Jansen as a baby, then by Frankie Muniz when he grows up), grows up believing he's a horse and wants to race ([[IncrediblyLamePun hence the title]]). On his side are a Shetland pony (voice of DustinHoffman) who's helped groom many successful horses, a sassy goat (voice of WhoopiGoldberg), and a pair of comic-relief flies (voices of David Spade and Steve Harvey). Not on his side are most of the ''real'' horses, especially champion Sir Trenton and his son Trenton's Pride (voices of Fred Dalton Thompson and Joshua Jackson).

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song for the Japanese version is [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x86tt9_hitomi-shimatani-i-will-yyyyyyy_music#.UZFnrcoy68A "I Will"]] by Hitomi Shimatani.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Among the other examples, [[{{Smallville}} Lex Luthor]] is one of the real horses.