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I took my daughter to see this film. I didn’t really want to see it but obviously I wanted to entertain her. I cannot tell you how good it was – I would recommend it even to adults without kids. It is truly superb. It has a great plot, good characters and lots of jokes for adults.
The scene with the sloth is hilarious (you can find it on a very popular video website as it is a trailer) – even more so if you know someone who is slow in real life. I know someone who took literally five minutes to peel a shallot. Not five proverbial minutes – five real ones. I digress… The way the fox ("Nick Wilde") winds the rabbit ("Judy Hopps") up in that scene by, for example, asking the sloth if he wants to hear a joke makes for great viewing.
There are even adult issues in the film such as the lack of ambition of Judy Hopps’ parents, and the cruel attitude of "Chief Bogo" towards Judy Hopps.
"Finnick" the Fennec fox will melt your heart. Fennec foxes are desert foxes and really have ears that large (they use them to lose heat rapidly).
This film is like Frozen-meets-Only-Fools-and-Horses-meets-a-whodunnit-meets-Westminster-politics. See it. If you are reading this while it is still on in the cinema, please see it in the cinema – it is one of those films that really benefits from the big-screen experience.
I came out of the cinema with a big smile on my face, feeling both uplifted and thoroughly entertained. This should become a classic film.
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What a brilliant film! Well developed characters and plot line? Check! Simply superb animation with breath-taking scenes? Check! Hilariously funny in places yet conveying a message about the dangers of prejudice and racism, all without taking itself too seriously? Check.
Disney is, or rather has, remained on absolutely top form with this movie. And THAT sloth scene – it was played to perfection. Well, that is the hardest I've laughed in years, along, I may say with the mixed kids/adult audience in the cinema where I saw this film. Just hilariously funny.
But this film much more than that because the makers have clearly lavished a huge amount of love, care and attention to detail to provide an exceptionally good animated movie with a considerable amount of depth to it. Time is taken to develop the characters and this adds hugely to the quality feel of the film. The plot is involving with plenty of narrative twists and turns. There is depth in another way as well. Just to take one example: the lead character, Judy Hopps, has a smart phone where the Apple trademark is replaced with a carrot with a bite out of it - and the film is littered with similar attention to detail.
I came out the cinema fairly buzzing with the feel good factor. Disney really has produced a corker of a movie and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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Judy Hopps is a bunny. A sweet-natured creature attempting to make a difference - she wants to join the police force. And she'd be the first ever bunny to ever make the squad. Against all the odds, she makes it, and is faced with prejudice at every corner - bunnies can't catch criminals right? But with the help of a crafty fox named Nick, who she essentially manipulates into helping her when she spots him committing petty crimes on the street, Officer Hopps shows the creatures of Zootropolis just what bunnies can do!
I loved Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin). She is so cute; kids, animal lovers and animation fans will absolutely love the detail that's obviously gone into her character! Equally, I love that she's so feisty - who knew that bunnies could be so cunning - but I guess that's the whole point of this movie! Nick (Jason Bateman) is just as fantastic and I thought his sarcastic wit was charming enough to make him believably crafty but still likeable. I had no idea there were so many insults for fluffy-butt bunnies! Some of the secondary characters are also interesting - Idris Elba is hilarious as the grumpy and disgruntled Chief Bogo!
So what is Zootropolis? Well Zootropolis is a town, essentially divided into different areas based on what the creatures native to each area are accustomed to - so there's a tundra area for Polar Bears, a tropical area for the big cats, a small creatures area for those tiny critters and many more. It's basically endless from the smallest hamster to the largest elephant, you will see more species than you can count as you travel through the world of Zootropolis. I couldn't believe how much thought the creators of this movie had put into each area, into the various creatures and into some of the quirky features within the town. This movie is visually beautiful, colourful and full of imagination.
As Judy leaves BunnyBurrow and enters Zoortropolis, the plot moves swiftly and kept me interested throughout - initially Judy is underestimated and is given the role of Parking Officer. But as the story progresses she must prove her worth and this effectively becomes a chase through the town of Zootropolis as Judy and Nick try to solve a series of mysterious disappearances against the clock - it seems our bunny friend knows how to upset her boss and now has 48 hours to find the missing animals. No pressure for our fuzzybutt!
Overall Zootropolis is a funny, sweet-natured and visually stunning movie - I definitely wasn't expecting it to be so good! The characters are perfectly Disney, the world building is wonderfully imaginative, and the kids watching were enamoured by it all - actually I was too! And I'm a fully-fledged grown up! I absolutely recommend this movie to everyone.
Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) is an optimistic idealistic bunny who wants to be a cop and make the world a better place. Her parents prefer that she stay on the farm in Bunny Burrow and make the world a better place by growing one carrot at a time. Judy obtains her wish and goes to Zootopia where the lion lies down with the lamb, both predator and prey live in harmony. In spite of 14 mammals being missing, Judy can't overcome the prejudice and stereotyping on the job and is assigned parking ticket duty. Her she meets a fox (Jason Bateman) someone she holds a stereotype and prejudice against. The overall theme of the film is diversity. Together they form an odd couple (i.e. typical film mismatched police officers) as they attempt to crack the case, one that takes them to a Godfather scene, one the adults can enjoy on a different level than the kids.
There was a room where all the animals roam naked as they were intended (Bunny averts eyes of spread eagle elephant) and another scene which stereotype the DMV as sloths, reminding me of a scene from "The Hitchhiker's Guide..." These scenes while funny, went against the grain of the production.
The major theme of the film is diversity, Even though some in a group are bad, it doesn't make everyone in that group bad, perhaps a light message about the current terrorist situation.
This movie was great! I thought this movie was not going to be a very good one, simply because the trailer was all about the DMV scene, so I though this would be the only funny part about it. But I was wrong. One thing I loved the most about the movie is that it has a great rhythm: I mean the scenes are fast going, they don't lose to much time.
Another thing I found great was that everything was connected: no loose scenes. For instance,(SPOILER) saving the small mouse had an important consequence in the future; the acting scene in the beginning was connected with (almost) the last scene. I thought this was great.
Overall, incredibly well made movie, which provided entertainment to all the family.
