It also addresses how even the good “people” can be unconsciously prejudiced.
Eeeeeeeee is for expressive ears! Loved little Judy Hopps and how the ears expressed her emotions.
I found it very hopeful as well as smart and a good look at hidden prejudice. (I’ve recently developed a new prejudice against anyone born in the '90s. :D) It was hopeful to the point of shared existence-- look, we all know no bunny or scrawny fox can stand up to an elephant or water buffalo, but they coexist and let the tiny and shifty hone other skills, like bouncing off street signs to give tickets or negotiate with the mob! (Could be needed, we’ll never know)
But I really loved it from the get go and encourage all to see it. It’s fun! Go enjoy something!
Saw it Tuesday night, loved it. I’m sure I missed tons of the easter eggs, so I’ll have to see it again at least once.
I didn’t anticipate who the ultimate villain ended up being.
Loved the “Gazelle” concert with the hunky tiger backup dancers, who didn’t once look like they were eyeing her like a tasty snack. 
Um, did you SEE Gazelle?
She IS a tasty snack 
Another point I’d like to bring up about this film, it’s not often these days that when I leave the theater I’m already anticipating a sequel. The universe these characters live in is open for so much more. If you’ll note, with the exception maybe of sloths where some may consider them one, there are no primates in this world. Is it because primates are so close to humans they wanted to avoid using them? Or because primates aren’t really involved with the whole predator/prey aspect of the story? And how about fish? The closest we saw of animals that swim were otters and polar bears. Or even for that matter, insects.
That got me thinking of possible sequels. Could they introduce primates as animals living across the sea in another country, and some have decided to move to Zootopia? A story dealing with immigrants (primates) trying to fit in?
I’m really anxious to see where the filmmakers will go with this world and characters.
I was very surprised that
Chekov’s fox repellent wasn’t used at the end. I expected Nick to wind up using it to subdue the main bad guy, with a quip along the lines of, “I guess it does have its uses after all.”
Saw it with the kid - everyone loved it.
Anecdotally, the theatre was packed. The movie was sold out every showing the day I went to see it.
One note - don’t take kids who are very young. There were some toddlers in the audience who found the scary scenes a bit too much, started to bawl.
Well, it did get used, just not the way you expected. It turned out the purpose was to demonstrate Hops’s deep-seated fear of Nick.
I saw it yesterday and I burst out laughing to see Kristen Bell credited for the voice of Priscilla the sloth. For those unfamiliar, please youtube “Kristten Bell” and “sloth”.
Took the kids yesterday and the theater was packed. It was a rainy day so I’m sure that helped, but I’m guessing the receipts haven’t dropped off much since last weekend.
I thought it was very smart and well-done, and I was chair-dancing at the end to Gazelle (partly, I’ll admit, just to embarrass my kids).
I recognized some of the voices (especially JK Simmons and Cheech Marin), but I did not recognize Jason Bateman at all.
Saw it and thought it was great. Like the Busy World Of Richard Scarry came to life.
I thought all the boroughs were great, especially Little Rodentia.
I thought when the assistant mayor was revealed that the police chief was an accomplice in her scheme since he also was a non-predator. But in the end it looks like he had nothing to do with it.
Who or what was the gazelle thing supposed to be satirizing? Beyonce? At first I thought it was supposed to be Gisele (gisele-gazelle) but she doesn’t sing.
Given that she was voiced by Shakira and had blonde hair, I’m guessing that was the association.
Heh, one thing I didn’t notice - did they ever say what it was that the predators of Zootopia actually ate?
Anyway, I thought it was a nice touch that the prejudices in Zootopia don’t exactly track the prejudices in our society - in that
The major prejudices exposed were pretty well those involving predators, who were a minority - but who are shown as basically an advantaged minority. They tended to end up in charge - like the Lion Mayor.
Blink and you’ll miss it, but there are shots of a fish market (in the Tundra biome). And from all appearances, only mammals are sentient. That leaves open meals made of reptiles, birds, fish, insects, etc.
There’s some wild mass guessing that this takes place in the same world as Robin Hood, mostly because it was the last time Disney had anthropomorphic animals starring in a feature film. That has some … dark implications.
To a certain extent, I think that…
[spoiler]… the prejudice against predators, which are a minority which is perceived as being advantaged and tends to be “in charge”, might be partially compared to prejudice against the Jews, who were perceived as “controlling the money and being in charge by pulling the strings from behind”. Of course, this is not an exact equivalent by any means, but there are shades of that.
And that gives an extra dose of nightmare fuel and fridge horror ( (c) TvTropes ) when you start thinking about what the ultimate plans of Bellwether might have been… If she manages to make everybody fear and despise the predators to the point that nobody would care about what happens to them… Well, she definitely might end up planning for a permanent solution to the “problem”…!!![/spoiler]
We took the Cub the other night, and he insisted we leave during the panther rage scene. Odd. He sat through all of Star Wars: the Force Awakens, including the scene between Han and Kylo Ren, yet he walks out of a cartoon. (Walked out of the Good Dinosaur as well, when Arlo’s Dad is swept away in the flood).
However, he kept talking about the movie and clearly wanted to go back to see how it ended, so we went back tonight. He sat through the scary scene with his hands over his ears - turns out it was just too loud and and the loud noise scared him. Once he got through that, he was good.
But we heard other little ones crying out during the panther scene as well. So yes, some advance prep work may be needed if taking a little one.
I have seen this very funny SFW fan art blogged many times about who the parents of Nick are:
OK, man, that? That was lovely XD XD XD Had me laughing out loud!
Kids are funny that way.
My boy, when he was younger, didn’t mind ‘adult’ violence at all - people being shot or the like - in movies. What he hated, and what got him upset, was people being unkind to each other, or when good friends fall out (he hated the scene in one of the Toy Story movies where the cowboy and the astronaut get angry with each other).
I think it is because he can emotionally relate to that, but simply has no context to understand “real” violence: to him, being shot is what happens in video games.
Jump scares, though, always “work” on him … though they don’t upset him any more.
I really enjoyed the movie. It’s amazing how they can show different emotions now in CGI characters. Judy Hopp’s eyes and ears were great. Ginnifer Goodwin did a great job as Judy.