Allegorical fable to teach about avoiding discrimination. WITH BUNNIES!

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2016)

EXTRA EXTRA BLEEDING HEARTS will be ALL ABOUT IT!
WHY?
Enough of the hubbub bub, this movie was full of love; yet also daring, intrigue, humor and plenty of good old fashioned moral instruction about how to get along.
After years of animated films pumped out by big companies that slyly insert adult references to sexual acts, use of substances that alter ones life, and the general milieu of what makes the world tick once 'paradise is lost' for us all after a certain age, the lesson is finally taught right, and in pretty good taste.
I refer of course to the introduction of peace and harmonious coexistence between both predator...and prey. Unlike former works that now resonate in the cultural psyche to both entertain and "learn our younguns some" ( yah thats rude to those from the Appalachians, I hope you all caught the intended irony lol) our story initially is set upon telling us of the natural divide that has always existed between hunter and hunted. Of course having the oh so familiar and almost trite example of a poor farm girl ( bunny) just DREAMING of the big city and the call of the...wild enthusiasm of life, its plain to see where the film was headed.
HOWEVER...( I know, too many ellipsis and parentheses. I am eccentric, not trying to be a mean jerk =p) I was pleasantly surprised by the hidden jokes and puns, the running gags of obvious animal instead of human racial tension and assumed tendencies. Case in point, a wolf literally in faux sheep clothing or slow sloths being slow, just because they are sloths. There be meaning in them traits folks. Or even a cheetah being overly obsessed with a gazelle. Think about it and look at the fat police station call operator. Oh, but its just the big city, so its just the way of things. So nature is scapegoated here and there. But along hops a cute bunny, and then... BOOM! a put down by a sharp fanged alpha here and there or an oversized herbivore with too much muscle instead of fat ( my little guy syndrome would be off the charts if I was shorter).
Onto Shakira as a pop idol . Perhaps most would not recognize her voice, but at the very least, for those whom recognize her iconic movements, the animal she voiced was quite graceful, even more than the average gazelle, which was in fact her character animal. MAGNETISM!
Still little punchlines and a softer use of expressive acknowledgments of racial differences quite eased the tension at times when certain inferred American east coast vernacular and mannerisms were played out, over , and over again. Feeling eventually like an old detective noir sometimes, I cared less and less for the exaggerated implications and easily slid into the story about a wonderful, evolved animal kingdom. Though still present though, the writers could quickly erase the presence of the divides inherent almost to the point that the stories point would have been lost. But ironically, there it would be again, and I wasn't insulted or exasperated of the behalf on any one group. All so clever and in the end harmony was restored and the question of what the sparse predatory part of the city populace actually consumed went unanswered. It must have simply happened when nobody was looking. Was there a possible scenario of butchery where only the strong survive? Yes. Some animals went missing, but not because they became food, they just heard the call, in a way. But still no bloodshed. METAPH-ROAR!
Luckily if animals, whether anthropomorphic or not, were good enough for all ancient peoples to use in their cautionary fables, then it is a good thing we have not lost touch with that art form. Otherwise things in a story like this would be inappropriate for sheepish children without that age old, wool pulled over the eyes, yarn spun tactic (HAH triple pun). But bravo Hollywood, fore twas an entertaining success!
Just remember, all u human animals out there, there's nothing wrong with howling with the pack, just don't mock others for something that can affect anyone.
"Hakuna mata-" YAH RIGHT! I wont finish, so as not to be sued by the relentless, suited ambulance predator. Roar. CIAO ^~^