Fails to deliver multiculturalist message

Rating: 2/10 (18 May 2016)

The movie is well animated and there were a few lines that made me laugh but overall the movie fails to deliver on it's liberal and multiculturalist message. The problem is that is uses the worst metaphor possible by putting all these different species of animals together. There is a reason they segregate the animals at real zoos, if you mixed them together you would have zoopocalyspe not zootopia. So the metaphor fails in that it is promoting values that are unnatural.
The fox character lives up to his stereotype but then the movie comes up with a very contrived reason for this that isn't very believable. The explanation in why the predators "revert back to their nature" is even more absurd rather than just to accept the truth, that they are predators and it's in their nature to behave that way.
The funniest part of the movie is the sloths in the DMV. Here the movie goes off it's message and comes up with a great metaphor for anybody who has had to deal with idiots promoted into jobs via affirmative action.
The movie would have been hilarious if they would have changed a few things and made it a parody.