Oddball movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2017)

When I saw the trailer, I was instantly turned off from this movie. This made it even sweeter when it turned out to be surprisingly good. While the movie is considered to have a hidden message, it's not actually hidden. The whole notion of being a good person (to paraphrase the director Byron Howard) is spelt out clearly throughout the film. In some ways, Ginnifer Goodwin (who plays Judy Hopps) fails to understand this in some decidedly arrogant and sexist remarks she has made during Interviews. This is a shame because Judy realises she is part of the problem whereas Ginnifer fails to realise she is part of the problem. Byron Howard (the director) also made Tangled, a similarly beautiful story. Both stories resonate with fairness and decency. They are fast becoming odd-balls in a Hollywood that is expressing far more intolerance (such as the works from the female writer of Moana / Smurfs 3). Not only is Zootopia great in its own right, it shames the competition we are seeing from Hollywood. Definitely worth a rewind.