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Remember Babe the sheep-pig? Now meet Stripes the racing-zebra. It sounds like a three-legged donkey, but director Frederik Du Chau and a stellar voice ensemble ensure that this Dr Dolittle-style caper has a lively burst of horseplay that'll keep the kids entertained.
With Dustin Hoffman as a Shetland pony, Whoopi Goldberg playing the goat and Snoop Dogg ideally cast as a lazy bloodhound, adults should have fun too matching the star to the animal. And while the humour's a little coarse (crap-munching flies, defecating pelicans), the plot builds to a genuinely exciting racetrack finale that makes Seabiscuit's look like a donkey derby.
Okay, so the human story is pure corn: some sentimental rubbish about a grieving widower (Bruce Greenwood) too scared to let his plucky daughter (Hayden Panettiere) back in the saddle. Still, it manages to remain appealing enough to make it worth a punt.
Ex-Bethesda dev turned indie says "good things often happen by accident," like that time Skyrim players convinced themselves the RPG's foxes were leading them to treasure
Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
