Looks like it will be worth a watch.
It looks similar to Frozen in the sense that it’s a solid animated movie, but will probably be hailed as the Second Coming of Christ. Now I wait for the dislikes.
(Rise from your grave, much to angelpalm’s discontent.)
So the movie came out today and I got done watching it with my mother and sister about a couple of hours ago. Ultimately, I quite liked it. In fact, I liked it quite a lot better than I was expecting I was going to given how jaded I am. Oh gods. I’m becoming a furry. Please end me angelpalm. I beg of you.
From the beginning, it’s rather focused with what its message/“Aesop” is going to be: try your best to be what you want to be, but most importantly, make sure you’re bettering the world while doing it. Additionally, there’s the “accept the difficulties and responsibilities of trying to reach what you’re dreaming of while doing so, even in the face of constant bullbuffaloshit” message, which is arguably separate outside of that intentionally jocular instance of a “you can be an elephant” moment [/furries unite]. Too many cartoons and other media with the “magic(k)al” message of “be yourself” and “you can be anything” eschew much of the realistic difficulty that would come along the way from actually attempting to achieve that and, additionally, dealing with the aftermath of it and possible push back to it in general society, instead choosing to dole out "happily ever after"s after dealing with issues in shades of absolute morality. That doesn’t really happen in this movie, where a lot of film is dedicated to dealing rather forwardly with discrimination (against furries) and the fallout of it, even when it comes from words and actions that were intended as “good”, while not really making most people out to be “true” bad guys about it–at best, they’re assholes. (Yes, that’s the right “they’re”–shut up.)
In fact, the more I think about it, this film was surprisingly…morally gray without being overly dark at the same time. Even Frozen, if we’re going to make the comparison (and this film did have at least three callbacks to it), was pretty black-and-white in its morality even including the “twist” in the end and Elsa’s character never actually being a villain. Even the main character of Zootopia, the “bunny officer” Judy Hopps, does a few underhanded things to get Mr. Fox to help her in the beginning. ([Insert mind-rending sexual fan-fiction here. (Please don’t.)])
Hell, the character that turns out to be the bad guy arguably has at least an understandable, “reasonable” motive for what occurs, even if it ends up hurting innocent people animals and ultimately being villainous. (Also, the bad guy’s role is a visual pun now that I think about it. Ha.)
TL;DR - All and all, yeah, aside from the potentially obnoxious fallout among certain groups of people, I’d certainly say it’s a good movie worth seeing, especially while in it’s theaters–as always, fuck 3D though. If nothing else, then it has a pretty consistent, positive message that can actually be applied to one’s life through effort. (It also one of the better credits sequences I’ve seen and that Shakira song definitely falls under “awards bait” even though her character is ultimately a background character to the point of arguably being a “cameo” for her.)
P.S. The “Meet Clawhauser” clip didn’t get posted in here shows a bit of what I’m talking about given Disney actually let Pixar make an N-Word privileges joke with the word “cute” of all things:
I remember when Splatoon was announced there was a shit ton of porn like an hour later, maybe less, on Reddit and 4chan.
They are Flash fast with that shit.
This movie was awesome. LOVED the world they built with all the different districts of Zootopia. Love to see more of this world. Hopefully it does well enough for a sequel.
Came back from seeing it this morning. It is a great family film with some deep stuff. The mystery of the movie was good too, IMO the only other movie that is similar in tone to Zootopia is Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Movie was legit.
Was so good! Loved the message of tolerance without it being so schmaltzy
The breaking bad reference though
Roommate and I probably going to see this tomorrow. Looks good.
Haven’t found time to see it yet, but will sometime this week.
I watched it with my sister and nephew. Great movie. I respect Nick’s hustle
Great movie. Aimed at kids but has enough Adult related moments and humor in there.
I went and saw it last weekend for a Sunday matinee, so the theater was filled with kids. I loved the movie! My fiancee was laughing at all the adult jokes and I laughed at all the kid jokes. The timber wolves were my favorite, lol.
Caught it the other day and loved it.
Jokes found their mark more than they didn’t and both morals were delivered in a way that didn’t feel forced.
I have a well documented love of cute things and Disney in general, so I was pretty much guaranteed to be about it.
lol saw it today good movie. lawlz at all the racial steriotypes. def a movie needed right now.