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Dreamworks zebra12/20/2023 ![]() The Black Eagle also reveals that Phango is obsessed with being whole and murdered his whole clan, as revenge for being rejected when he was a cub, due to the fact he was born with one eye blind, which gave him a sense of smell like no other leopard, which turned him into a powerfully and endlessly killing hunter. From the albino Black Eagle, he learns the way to the watering hole and that it lies in Phango's cave. Khumba encounters a group of fanatical rock hyraxes who worship the Black Eagle and stymie his advance. After narrowly escaping capture by an opportunistic group of park rangers who tranquilizes Bradley and traps Khumba in a cage, he wanders to a nearby mountain to speak to the mighty Black Eagle under the advice of the riverine rabbit. There he meets a colorful group of individuals like a family of Meerkats, an Ground Pangolin, two bushbucks, a bat-eared fox, and an Australian endangered riverine rabbit who has survived extinction by mastering a myriad of skills ranging from impersonations to beat-boxing. Khumba thinks his journey is over when he wanders into a new age, bohemian community living safely within the confines of Ying's National Park. Curiously, the springbok are all so similar that they cannot even differentiate among one another. On their journey, Khumba aids a migrating herd of springbok in opening a hole in a great fence to continue journeying forward. The duo join Khumba on his quest in the hope that their own search for a safe waterhole is over. He is saved by a maternal wildebeest named Mama V who is a self-confessed free spirit who does not want to be the average stay-at-home mom, like other wildebeest, and had lost her child to Phango, and a flamboyant British ostrich named Bradley, who is mothered by Mama V, and possesses a histrionic diva-esque attitude. Khumba ventures beyond the fence and once outside, encounters an opportunistic African wild dog named Skalk who nearly leads him to his doom when Skalk's pack try to eat him, even though he tries persuading his pack not to. Then, Khumba leaves the confines of his home knowing that he cannot survive in the herd where it is viewed as only "half-a-zebra." Shortly after, Lungisa succumbs to her disease and dies. Lungisa tells the story of how a white horse got its stripes by swimming in a magic river and other horses wanted to have stripes like him, making the zebra we know today. Seko berates and scolds Khumba for putting the herd at risk and for the next week, he'll drink half of his rations. A murderous African leopard, Phango, warns Mkhulu that he and the herd can't stay in their enclosure forever. Khumba jeopardizes the herd and gets into trouble when he attempts to admit several gemsbok into the watering-hole enclosure when their wise elderly healer needs water. When a mystical African mantis appears to Khumba, he draws a map to what could be interpreted as either water or stripes between it. As he matures, Khumba is picked on and remains ostracized by most of the herd with the exception of Tombi, a young female zebra friend close in age - whom Khumba has a crush on - and uncomfortable in the herd due to her tomboyish manners. Rumors that the strange foal is cursed spread and before long he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. In South Africa within the Great Karoo, a half-striped zebra named Khumba is born into an insular isolated herd of all-striped zebras where he's raised by his sick mother Lungisa and his father & the herd's leader, Seko. ![]() Khumba received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office disappointment, only grossing $28.4 million worldwide against a $20 million budget. ![]() The film premiered at the TIFF on September 8 2013, and was released on 25 October 2013 by Indigenous Film Distribution. Rau was known for efforts to use selective-breeding to recreate the extinct quagga, a close relative of the plains zebra. The film was dedicated in memory of The Quagga Breeding Project founder Reinhold Rau, who died on February 11 2006. He embarks on a quest to earn his stripes. ![]() The film is about Khumba, a zebra who is half-striped like a quagga and blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his insular, abusive, superstitious herd, except his dad, mom and Tombi. ![]() The International distribution rights are being licensed by Cinema Management Group. It is the second movie made by Triggerfish Animation Studios and is distributed by Millennium Entertainment in the US. Grant, AnnaSophia Robb,Īnika Noni Rose, Catherine Tate, Ben Vereen, and Liam Neeson. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Khumba is a 2013 South African computer-animated comedy film directed and co-produced by Anthony Silverston and written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. ![]()
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