In the movie "Racing Stripes," a little zebra named Stripes and his teenage pal, Channing (Hayden Panettiere), have the unlikely dream of racing against thoroughbred horses come true. One actor, ...

Dismissing this as a paltry retread of ‘‘Babe'' would be mean, and it's hard to be mean to a movie that's so well-intentioned. The similarities are awfully hard to miss, though — as are the ...