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Synopsis: A half-striped zebra is born into an insular, isolated herd obsessed with stripes. Rumors that the strange foal is cursed spread and, before long, he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. When even his father, the leader of the herd, blames him for the lack of rain and the subsequent death of his mother, the outcast zebra leaves the confines of his home knowing that he cannot survive in the herd without all his stripes. Khumba ventures beyond the fence - vulnerable to the ferocious Leopard, Phango, who controls the waterholes and terrorizes the animals in the Great Karoo. Khumba is rescued from an opportunistic wild dog by a quirky duo: a wildebeest and an ostrich. Mama V is a self-confessed free spirit who does not want to be the average stay-at-home mom, like other wildebeest. Ironically, she mothers Bradley, a flamboyant but insecure ostrich who overcompensates for his scraggily feathers. When a mystical mantis appears to the foal, drawing a map to what could be
Director(s): Anthony Silverston
Production: Millenium Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
85 min
$90,465
Website
710 Views


If it doesn't rain soon,

you will have to let them out.

If someone

doesn't let him in first.

I'm scared.

We're safe in here.

Stay calm.

Are we safe?

Just saying, we're safe.

I just want to be sure.

Yeah, yeah?

Khumba, you put

the herd at risk.

For the next week, you'll

drink only half your rations.

Half rations...

for half zebras.

Dad, she needed help.

She was sick.

Khumba.

Like Mama.

Enough.

Khumba, oh.

For you, Mama.

You're growing.

You need your strength.

You have it.

You're just like your father.

I'm nothing like Dad.

I'm not like any of you.

Do you know why

I named you Khumba?

You see, Khumba means skin.

Skin?

They say that the first

zebras to walk the Earth

all had exactly the same skin

with no stripes at all.

No stripes?

Mm-hmm.

One day, a brave young zebra

took a journey

across the vast Karoo.

And deep inside a huge mountain,

he found a water hole,

a magic water hole.

He swam in it,

and when he came out,

his skin was striped.

All the other zebras

admired his beautiful skin,

and he was proud

to be so different.

But now, they all wanted

to be like him,

so one by one, they swam

in the magic water hole,

and when they came out,

they were all striped, too.

So I can get my stripes

and then it will rain.

No, Khumba.

Where is this water hole?

Don't you see?

I think I know.

They all looked the same.

That looks like me, sort of,

and those can be three peaks

leading to a waterhole.

It is a map,

to the magic waterhole.

Mom.

Dad?

Lungisa.

Mama. I'm sorry.

Hmm? Water.

Whoa.

Well, hello there.

Excuse me.

How are you today?

Uh...

Feeling different,

peculiar, left out, having

trouble fitting in?

Am I right?

Well, I...

That's why I'm here.

I'm here to help.

My name is Skalk.

Thanks anyway, Skalk, but you

couldn't possibly know...

You want more stripes,

but you think there's no way

in the world you could

get more stripes.

Am I right? Am I wrong? Am I?

Of course I'm right.

Wrong. I'm going to get my

stripes at the magic waterhole.

Magic waterhole?

Of course, the magic waterhole.

Yep. Just got to figure

out where to head.

Stop, stop, stop.

I've got the answers to all

your problems right here.

Skalk's 100% natural,

herb, miracle formula.

Guaranteed to bring out

the natural stripe in you.

Really? No, no, no, wait. I

know what you're thinking.

How could that be?

But I tell you it works...

on anything.

Even a rock.

Samples of my work right here.

But if you want to trek all the

way across the Karoo and back,

that's all right by me.

Well, maybe if you show me

how it works.

Follow me.

Khumba, I'm so sorry

about your... huh?

Khumba?

So I can have some of your

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