Zootopia Review

<p>Between <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0601781&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;dr2">Rich Moore<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0397174&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;dr1">Byron Howard<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&comma; and credited co-director&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm1158544&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;dr3">Jared Bush<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&semi; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know who to credit the insanity of <em>Zootopia<&sol;em> to&period; Maybe I should thank the seven &lpar;that&&num;8217&semi;s right&rpar; co-writers on this film that include the previous names&period; How this film didn&&num;8217&semi;t end up being a disaster is crazy&period; The fact that <em>Zootopia<&sol;em> ended up being the most thought provoking&comma; if not heavy handed&comma; Disney film in a very long time is astonishing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0000867&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t2">Jason Bateman<&sol;a><&sol;strong> and <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0329481&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t1">Ginnifer Goodwin<&sol;a><&sol;strong> star as Nicholas P&period; Wilde and Officer Judy Hopps&period; Hopps is a newly recruiter police officer assigned to the major city&comma; Zootopia&period; Being the first rabbit officer&comma; Hopps must show that she deserves to be where she is and make sure that she gives everything she has to show it&comma; as most Disney movies would&period; Wilde is a con-artist fox &lpar;you see where this is going&rpar; that is a nuisance to the new police officer assigned to parking ticket duty&period; Unsatisfied with her duties&comma; she follows a lead on the fox and the two become embroiled in a kidnapping plot and eventually become trusted allies across the way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;101147" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-101147" style&equals;"width&colon; 1280px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-101147 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;maxresdefault-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"zootopia 1" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"720" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-101147" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Zootopia<&sol;em>&comma; Walt Disney Pictures&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Truthfully&comma; I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t too enthused about this film after reading that synopsis before the film and even now&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still kind of pathetic&period; But within that cookie cutter story lies a message that&comma; while overt&comma; is able to talk about something important without feeling incredibly shoved into the plot&period; And that is generally what makes messages such an issue in animated family films&period; The message must come across to the kids&comma; while still finding moments of fun in the process&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s really the fun process that <em>Zootopia<&sol;em> has difficulty with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Knowing the family friendly Disney studio&comma; racism would seemingly be a big taboo&comma; most likely deemed too difficult and risky of a subject to center a film around &lpar;Disney have had a few issues with such things &ast;cough&ast;<em> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Song&lowbar;of&lowbar;the&lowbar;South">Song of the South<&sol;a><&sol;em> &ast;cough&ast;&rpar;&period; The directors and screenwriters were able to craft a worthy film on the subject&comma; without making it feel unnatural&period; Now the problem with <em>Zootopia<&sol;em> isn&&num;8217&semi;t the message&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s how hard the movie tries to shove set pieces into it&period; The first official trailer revolved around a scene involving the DMV and Sloths running it &lpar;easy joke&comma; but still effective&rpar;&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s an incredibly funny scene&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s obvious why the marketing revolved around it at that point&comma; but it was worrisome that there wasn&&num;8217&semi;t any look at any kind of adventure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In fact&comma; nearly every set piece is comedic&period; Between an ongoing <em>Godfather<&sol;em> reference&comma; to the Wolves as they infiltrate a base&comma; there are a few moments of true tension&period; That being said&comma; there is a fun little chase sequence between Hopps and a weasel voiced by the always great <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0876138&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t11">Alan Tudyk<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&period; Most of those moments though&comma; fall flat and don&&num;8217&semi;t help the momentum of the 108 minute long film&period; Desperate to feel short&comma;<em> Zootopia<&sol;em> ends a little too fast for the realizations of the lead characters to feel entirely natural&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;101149" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-101149" style&equals;"width&colon; 637px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-101149 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;zootopia-untamed-pointofgeeks&period;jpg" alt&equals;"zootopia 2" width&equals;"637" height&equals;"319" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-101149" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Zootopia<&sol;em>&comma; Walt Disney Pictures&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>If there&&num;8217&semi;s anything that feels completely natural&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s the voice cast&period; <em>Zootopia<&sol;em> doesn&&num;8217&semi;t feature a very star studded cast that would overshadow the film with their recognizable voices&comma; but it has a line-up of great actors&period; Among the already mentioned Bateman&comma; Goodwin and&comma; Tudyk&comma; we also get <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0001045&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t8">Tommy Chong<&sol;a><&sol;strong> in a short scene playing a laid-back character &lpar;if Disney is going to get into racism&comma; I wonder when they&&num;8217&semi;re going to let Chong play a character that openly smokes weed&rpar;&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm1535594&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t5">Nate Torrance<&sol;a><&sol;strong> of <em>Hello Ladies<&sol;em> fame&comma; playing an obese cheetah working dispatch at the police station&comma; and <strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0252961&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;ttfc&lowbar;fc&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t3">Idris Elba<&sol;a><&sol;strong> has a particularly fun role as the buffalo chief of the station&period; There are so many stand outs&comma; and it makes it even harder to not be entertained by this cast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite the film being a detective story revolving around the jokes instead of the set pieces &lpar;possibly for the better&rpar;&comma;<em> Zootopia<&sol;em> is a deceptively smart film that wants to have a conversation about racism and classes of society&period; It may not feature an in depth conversation&comma; but the movie strikes a balance between the family film fun and the thematic content&period; While I think it could have been a little more fun&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d have a hard time seeing someone who wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t enjoy this film and everything it has in it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;