This was Disney’s best movie in a while. I highly recommend it. The visuals were amazing the characters were as fantastic as I’d hoped them to be and the plot and conflict is extremely relate able. Honestly I thought this would be a “Furry Movie” but it actually felt like a huge metaphor for real life. It’s a movie with anthros in it but it’s not really pandering to any anthro loving fans. The only reason it uses animals is because it makes the metaphor way more obvious.

While I didn’t get the full experience seeing it on opening night, I’m really tickled to watch a “Kids Movie” where all the jokes and clever ideas get the adults and the parents to react while the kids can just laugh at the silly faces. I’m not saying “This is a movie for adults” but I’m glad it can be a movie that connects to multiple types of people instead of just being “marketed to kids”

I don’t give 10/10s usually but everything this movie could have fucked up it didn’t so its a hot 10/10 from me. There were no moments that made me groan like Frozen and Big Hero 6 and the plot is easy to follow. 

I also want to point out that the movie is pretty intelligent for a modern Disney movie. It only has one song and despite all the puns you see before the movie was released, they’re never shoved in your face.

More extensive critique below (Some spoilers Obviously)

As someone who’s been following Zootopia’s progress from concept to picture, I can say my biggest complaint was the way the animals evolved. Thousands of years later their culture just so happens to be the exact same as humans? From the first sketches I thought it was going to be a movie about how society developped from the minds of animals instead of just taking the easy way out and making animals live is New York. But the film shattered that complaint as the movie was smart enough to show that this wasn’t just an “animated characters in modern New York” movie. Unlike movies like Madagascar that have smart animals exploring an area outside of their boundaries completely alien to them, Zootopia suceeds in creating a believable culture that is divided and seperated perfectly to accomodate for the hundred different types of animals. It seems the creators put a lot of thought into the setting as animals are not in misplaced areas and can roam in areas they’d call home while simultaneously having a downtown structure that’s really a concrete jungle. And even in the downtown area, everything is completely modelled to accomodate different species. But it doesn’t seem to work against smaller animals either since like the big city, danger comes from not paying attention to your surroundings. So basically the amount of thought the creators put into how this town would work really shines through.

But that was just my one concern. The rest of the movie is a typical buddy cop story where the characters apprehend the big bad. But where most buddy cop movies end, this one doesn’t. Everything you see in the trailers is only the first half of the movie where after the fun adventures, things get darker. And I don’t mean darker as in people start dying or anything. The movie presents that its actually a huge metaphor for cultural diversity and stereotypes. When the big bad is apprehended and you learn what’s going on, this doesn’t fix the problem. It makes it worse. The Utopia flips the coin on typical “Predators are the bad guy” movies because really Predators and Prey are two types of people on the same coin. Hell it even shows the prey as being the predators in a way when the mastermind (who is extremely obvious by the way) reveals themselves. But the villains motivations are not just to be evil or a dick but rather to try to bring balance to the discrimination their kind has suffered for generations. It’s just like the two opposing sides in Bioshock Infinite. When one side comes the power, the other side becomes the discriminated. Which is sad but true. Near the end, characters you like throughout the movie start becoming the ones judged and feared just for being born a predator. One of the characters even reveals that he essentially embodies his stereotype because that’s all people will ever seem him for after he tried to be something different. He’s discriminated for reaching out because no one wants to trust him because of what he is. The key to the story is not that everyone can be what they want if they really fight for it. That would have have been extremely cliche. The main character gets what she wants and knows that it isn’t right in the end. The message is that our diversity is what makes us stronger and combatting that just isn’t how society works.

Honestly I thought this was going to be a furry movie but really its just a metaphor to how our society should work.
And really I think hardcore tumblrites need to see it as soon as possible.