![]() ![]() There is a close up of the fox’s claws before he scratches her face leaving noticeable gouges. One character tries to help but it shoved to the ground. Two parent rabbits talk to their daughter and advise her to do as they did, which is ‘give up on dreams and settle’.Ī bully fox demands that smaller, weaker animals give him their tickets. When the shot pans out to reveal the stage and a child in costume ‘attacks’ another child as ‘prey’, she screams overly dramatically, “Blood! Blood! Blood!” while squirting ketchup. The voice over states that predators wanted ‘mate, maul, or death’. There is a brief shot of an animal stalking another before it becomes clear that this is a child’s play. The movie opens with a voice over describing animals hunting. Enjoy! CONTENT: IS ‘ZOOTOPIA’ SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN? ‘Zootopia’ is worthy of the praise it received on release. ![]() The jokes are funny (Sloths at the DMV anyone?), the subtext respectful, the animation gorgeous, and the performances on key. So when we have mice mafia, political conspiracy, inter-species animosity, and positive discrimination (as well as the resentment that comes from that), it is all told through the lens of two engaging characters. But with the comedy chops of Bateman and positive sincerity of Goodwin the dialogue and relationship between them sparkle, acting as a strong pin in the plot around which everything else revolves. Her initial overcompensation to try to show she has no prejudice towards him comically rings true with the cringeworthy-level of ‘hey, we cool?’ efforts that many will have experienced in reality. But although ‘Zootopia’ does enough to ensure such serious undertones are give all due pathos, the comedy comes in as a perfect counterbalance in the form of the tried and tested ‘buddy cop’ formula.Īnd yes, despite being hurt by a bully fox as a child and her parents warning her of dangerous foxes, Hopps (Goodwin) finds herself teamed up with the wily fox Wilde (Bateman). ![]() Clearly the parallels between the animal prejudices and human racism is not far from the fore. None more so then when predators, and only predators are apparently going ‘savage’ and reverting to feral ways. Indeed, despite being sold the dream that at Zootropolis anyone can be anything, she quickly learns that snap judgements are bubbling in the undercurrents and prejudice is rife. Full of wide-eyed wonder and determined to do well, she is quickly brought down to earth by realising that most will judge her on first sight for her species. Hopps is the idealistic young go getter ‘in’ for the audience. It’s a simple set up but ultimately one which Disney have ploughed much more thought and depth into than a less-motivated-to-up-it’s-game studio might have done. Zootopia takes the bread and butter Pixar approach of ‘anthropomorphic X in the setting of Y’, by having all manner of animals, predator and prey, supposedly move beyond their differences and go about city life as humans would. ![]() More recent Disney efforts have either refined the previous formula to modern tastes (see the princess tropes turned on their head in the astronomically successful ‘ Frozen‘). Since the front of house pairing of Disney and Pixar there has a been a clear influence of Pixar’s way of thinking on the Disney animation machine. Genre: Animation, Comedy REVIEW: ‘ZOOTOPIA’ Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba ![]()
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