Bunny Hops, a small town police officer,teams up with Nick Wilde, a small-time hustler, to investigate the disappearances of a dozen of predators in Zootopia.

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2016)

If you want your kids to "laugh out loud" during the movie but can learn something after it as well,this is the right movie for your family. People of all ages can see themselves in "Zootopia" because the characters both have the typical features of animals and the familiar traits of any human being. The film isn't wrong to say that carnivores are biologically inclined to want to eat herbivores, that bunny reproduce prolifically, the sloths are slow-moving, that you can take the fox out of the forest but you can't take the forest out of the fox. If you think about all this as an analogy for the world we live in and then ask yourself which ethnic or racial or societal groups are "predators" (cops,businessmen,bureaucrats) and which are "prey",you see the problem. "Zootopia" rubber stamps whatever world-view parents want to pass on to their kids,however embracing or malignant that may be. I can imagine an anti-racist and a racist coming out of the movie,each thinking it validates their sense of how the world works.
"Only a bunny can call another bunny 'cute'" or "Never let them see that they get to you". "Zootopia" constantly asks its characters to look past stereotypes and not use sexist or racist language or repeat hurtful assumptions. This strongly reminded me of the case at Yale University during Halloween and the protest of its students about freedom of free-speech.
Furthermore,"Zootopia" is visually stunning and full of cute animals with big eyes and voices of celebrities. The "Zootopia" canvas pops thanks to a gorgeously vibrant color palette and whimsical architectural scales. An all-mammal parallel universe is comprised of distinct micro-climates like sunny Bunnyburrows,icy Tundratown and self-explanatory Little Rodentia. Shakira's "Try Everything" is catchy and smartly relevant to the movie. It will never gain the level of popularity that "Let It Go" did, but I believe your kids will come out of the movie singing this song joyfully.
As it is,"Zootopia" is a goodhearted, handsomely executed film that kids of this generation should adore,at least at the level that they did with "Frozen" and "Big Hero 6".