Voices by Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Tommy Chong, Jenny Slate, and Shakira.
Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush.
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The preview for this before Star Wars had me and my brother both laughing so hard. I can’t afford to go see this in the theater or convince my wife that seeing a cartoon is something adults do, but if I could do both those things, I’d go see it this weekend.
Yeah, this looked genuinely adorable/funny when I saw the pre-Star Wars trailer. Gf also loved it. Then again, she’s almost as delighted by sloths as Kristen Bell.
Will try to go see it sometime, but maybe we’ll just wait for it to hit Netflix…
Loved the movie. Very entertaining, lots of political commentary that will go completely above the kids. One thing to note though if you have small children… there were about six children in the theater that pretty much freaked out during the “savage” scenes. They show some of this on the trailer, but the little girl next to me curled up in a ball and started whimpering in fear, which is how she would up kicking me on occasion for each of those scenes. i’d say she was 5-6. My nephew did fine though. So just know your kid… I’d say this was probably a little more scary than Lion King animal violence.
Kids are funny. My 4 year old nephew is the bravest little dude in the world. Loves Dinosaurs. Not scared of a teesny T-Rex, no way! Eats up Jurassic World like no tomorrow and thinks the Indominus Rex is tops. He has himself subdued countless many Dinosaurs, or so he tells me.
So we took him to a Dinosaur Petting Zoo! It’s a puppet show run here every year or so where they have a variety of really nicely built and operated dinosaur puppets introduced and wander around stage over the course of an hour or so. From little wallaby sized things, right up to a T-Rex and room sized Sauropod.
He was shit-scared of the T-Rex - a dude in a 12’ tall suit. A wonderful, convincing dude operating and performing in a 12’ tall suit, but it was still pretty charmingly funny watching the brave little dude cower behind his mum while it roared and pretended to chomp on a volunteer’s head.
Saw it tonight, my daughter really enjoyed it whereas my 8yo son gave it a very horizontal thumb. Wife and I both liked it quite a bit, though its a bit heavy on its messaging there at the end. But it’s a good message, so I didn’t mind it.
Liked it. It’s probably my favourite among the recent Disney animation productions , i.e. Tangled, Frozen, Wreck-it Ralph and Big Hero 6. The characters and the world worked for me, and hey, no one broke out into a song. The voice work was decent, the animation done really well.
It’s really entertaining, but Zootopia is also playing it safe in some regards so that it can’t compete with Pixar’s best work, e.g. the more imaginative and inventive Inside Out. I also thought that both the plot and the message were really predictable. Didn’t hurt the entertainment value though. I also appreciated that there small variations in the famous sloth scene because I had seen that trailer probably 8-10 times in the past 3 months. No massive changes, but noticable enough to not have me tune out during that part.
As for the savage scenes: as I was watching the movie, I also thought that these parts might be a bit too much for some children.
Liked this quite a bit. I thought the animations–especially facial animations–were remarkable. Not sure if this is really better than other recent digital cartoons, but for some reason it felt like it to me. Great voice work as well, no surprise from Jason Bateman and Idris Elba. Jenny Slate was an excellent pick.
Although it wasn’t really the focus, I didn’t expect the world they created to be so varied, and they used it well.
I would love it if every other family movie out there wasn’t just a morality tale about inclusion and prejudice, but if it’s going to be that way, let them all be more like this one. It hit multiple angles on discrimination–from gender in the workplace to class stratification to fear of some due to, basically, terrorism. And it takes some dark tonal turns, which I appreciated. My kids weren’t bothered by the scary stuff (youngest is 7).
I thought the morality of Zootopia was pretty subtle for a kids film. When Hopps gets called up to do the press conference, I think even a lot of adults would have trouble understanding exactly why what she said was wrong. Inside Out, on the other hand, beats you over the head with its message (“It’s ok to be sad”, which is true, but c’mon… it was the basis of a 1st season Simpsons episode too). Inside out also kind of undercuts its message by being unrelentingly depressing throughout (“It’s ok to be sad, and we’ll prove it my making you bawl your eyes out for 90 minutes!”)
I’m just gonna go stand over here by myself in the “didn’t like Inside Out” corner.
