Great entertainment with a bizarre agenda

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2016)

I wasn't actually too keen on another furry Disney / Pixar movie, but I was swayed. Zootopia is amazingly good and entertaining on so many other levels but cuteness. If nothing else, the whole mobster subplot with "Mr. Big", a godfather in the shape of a shrew (that's a small mouse), won me over. It's amazing how such a large production that requires cooperation on so many levels can still be creative, fun and original. The movie is on a qualitative level with the best of Pixar productions (possibly because Pixar man John Lasseter acted as creative supervisor).
What I didn't enjoy at all, however, was having the the usual Disney schmaltz about a young girl making it in the Big Apple against all odds whilst fighting for a multicultural society where all animals, and even rabbits and foxes, live together in peace and harmony to the sound of Shakira, into my face.