Zootopia

**Zootopia** is The 3D-Animated Film .

## Plot

Zootopia is a gleaming metropolis populated by anthropomorphic mammals, divided into several districts including Savanna Central, Sahara Square, Tundratown, Little Rodentia, and Rainforest District. **The film begins in a treacherous jungle which fades into a Carrot Days-Talent Show about the history of Zootopia. One day, Judy Hopps, a rabbit from rural Bunnyburrow, fulfills her dream of joining the Zootopia Police Department as the city's first rabbit officer. However, she is regularly assigned parking duty by Chief Bogo. During one of her shifts, she is manipulated by Nick Wilde, a con artist fox.** Judy unlawfully arrests Duke Weaselton in Little Rodentia and is reprimanded by Bogo until Mrs. Otterton, an otter, arrives pleading for help in locating her missing husband, one of the many recently *missing mammals*. Judy volunteers to find him and *Assistant Mayor Bellwether* praises her for taking the case, much to Bogo's dismay. Judy agrees to resign if she cannot solve the case within 48 hours. With Nick as a key witness of Mr. Otterton's disappearance, Judy locates the fox and coerces him to assist her with the investigation lest he be charged with tax evasion, to which he openly admitted and Judy recorded with her Carrot pen. **After acquiring Mr. Otterton's license plate number from *Mystic Springs Oasis*, Judy and Nick track the vehicle from the *Department of Mammal Vehicles* to Mr. Big, a feared arctic shrew crime boss in Tundratown. Mr. Big spares their lives after learning that Judy had rescued his Fru Fru earlier, and informs the pair that Mr. Otterton is his florist and had gone *Night Howler Sickness* - reverted to a feral state - and attacked his chauffeur Renato Manchas*, a black jaguar.*** *Judy and Nick locate Manchas at his* Manchas' tree house' in the Rainforest District. Manchas describes the attack on him and mentions that Otterton had been yelling about "night howlers". However, before he can reveal anything else, Manchas himself goes savage and chases the pair through the Rainforest District, but they manage to escape. Judy calls the ZPD for help, but when Bogo and his reinforcements arrive, Manchas is nowhere to be found. Bogo demands Judy to resign, but Nick takes a stand, insisting they have 10 more hours to solve the case. As the pair leave the Rainforest District, Nick opens up to Judy, revealing that he was bullied by *Woodchuck bully* *Junior Ranger Scouts* as a cub for being a fox and subsequently became a con artist, resolving to live out the "sly fox" stereotype, as no one saw a fox as anything else. **Nick realizes that the city's traffic camera system may have captured how Manchas disappeared, and the pair consult Bellwether. They then discover Manchas was captured by wolves, which Judy assumes is what Mr. Otterton had meant by "night howlers". Judy and Nick locate Cliffside Asylum, which contains all the missing mammals mentioned earlier (including Mr. Otterton and Manchas), all of which have gone savage, and discover Mayor Lionheart consulting with a *Dr. Madge Honey Badger* about their condition, revealing that he has illegally imprisoned the savaged predators to prevent citywide panic, and by extension, the loss of his reputation. The pair escape with the evidence and warn Bogo. The police then swarm the area, arresting Lionheart and those involved. Bellwether subsequently becomes the new mayor.** Having developed a friendship with Nick throughout the case, Judy requests that he joins the ZPD and become her partner, which Nick happily considers. However, during a press conference, a pressured Judy describes the savaged mammals' condition as them reverting back to their "primitive savage ways". This seemingly confirms Judy's secret bigotry against foxes to Nick, who angrily walks out on her offer. When fear and discrimination against predators spreads across Zootopia, a guilt-ridden Judy resigns. During this time, pop star *Gazelle* holds a *Gazelle's peace rally* and publicly asks for the harmonious Zootopia she loves and cherishes to be restored. **Returning to Bunnyburrow, a depressed Judy rejoins the *family business* as The Carrot farmer. However, she later learns from her Bonnie and Stu Hopps and reformed childhood bully, fox Gideon Grey, that "*night howlers*" are toxic flowers that have severe *Night howler sickness* on mammals. Judy returns to Zootopia and reconciles with Nick. They then locate Weaselton, who explains that he has been collecting night howlers and selling them to a ram named Doug Ramses, who owns a *Doug's lab/secret underground laboratory*.** The pair find the lab and discover Doug creating a *night howler serum* which he has been injecting into predators via paintball-like pellets fired by an *Night howler dart gun/air-powered sniper gun. Judy and Nick race to the ZPD with the evidence, but just short of the ZPD, the pair encounter Bellwether in the* Natural History Museum *who insists on taking the evidence. Realizing she is the mastermind of the conspiracy, Judy and Nick try to flee, but are knocked into a pit by her* Sheep thug/henchram*. Bellwether shoots a night howler dart from the evidence case at Nick and frames a call for help to the ZPD. Nick becomes savage and corners Judy, but it turns out the pair were acting in order to trick Bellwether into openly admitting her prey-supremacist scheme to take over Zootopia and rid it of all predators, and that they replaced the dart gun ammo with* blueberries *from the Hopps' farm. Bellwether furiously threatens to frame the pair, like she framed Lionheart, but with Bellwether's monologue recorded on Judy's carrot pen, Chief Bogo and the ZPD arrive and arrest her and her henchram. Upon being informed and interviewed on the matter, Lionheart denies any knowledge of Bellwether's plot, but admits to have illegally imprisoned the savage predators, claiming it to have been done for the "right reasons". Later, Judy is reinstated into the ZPD. An antidote is discovered for the effects of the night howlers and all the infected predators, including Mr. Otterton and Mr. Manchas, are cured. Months later, Nick joins the ZPD as the first fox officer and Judy's partner. The final scene has almost all of Zootopia attending a* Gazelle's concert *from Gazelle while Bellwether angrily views it on television in prison.*

## Voice-Cast

* **Ginnifer Goodwin** as **Judy Hopps**, the protagonist. She is an enthusiastic optimist rabbit who wants nothing more than to be a member of the ZPD. Along with Nick Wilde, she cracks the biggest case of all time.
* **Jason Bateman** as **Nick Wilde**, the deuteragonist. He is a backwater streetwise fox who knows Zootopia like the back of his paw. He reluctantly joins Judy Hopps to crack the case of the missing mammals.
* **Idris Elba** as **Chief Bogo**, the tritagonist. He is a pessimistic Cape buffalo and Judy's boss. He allows the rabbit 48 hours to solve the case of the missing mammals, or else she resigns, to which she agrees.
* **Jenny Slate** as **Assistant Mayor Bellwether**, the hidden main antagonist. She is a diminutive sheep who is a slight pushover and the assistant mayor of Zootopia. She is the cause of the savaged animals.
* **Nate Torrence** as **Officer Clawhauser**, a supporting character. He is an obese cheetah who loves donuts and singer Gazelle. He assists Judy in her case, presenting her with info she needs.
* **Bonnie Hunt** as **Bonnie Hopps**, the mother of Judy. She is a caring rabbit who supports her daughter, but fears for her too.
* **Don Lake** as **Stu Hopps**, the father of Judy and a carrot farmer. He is a nervous, but kindhearted rabbit who is a bit overprotective of Judy.
* **Tommy Chong** as **Yax**, a supporting character. He is a laid-back yak who is the owner of The Mystic Spring Oasis, a naturalist club.
* **J.K. Simmons** as **Mayor Lionheart**, a supporting character. He is the pompous, but noble mayor of Zootopia.
* **Octavia Spencer** as **Mrs. Otterton**, a supporting character. She is a concerned North American river otter whose husband, Emmitt Otterton, has gone missing.
* **Alan Tudyk** as **Duke Weaselton**, a supporting antagonist. He is a small-time least weasel crook who runs a bootleg DVD stand.
* **Shakira** as **Gazelle**, a pop star. She is Zootopia's resident celebrity and a mammal rights activist.