So me, the mate and a bunch of friends watched Zootopia last night.

Worth all the wait and every cent.

I agree with what a lot of guys have said by now; never has the message of this movie been more relevant for the world than now and Disney truly has outdone themselves once again.

People have mentioned all the different influences and multi-facetted topics it adresses and the wonderful thing is, it does so without hammering you in the face with them. They're just there and part of the story, woven in so well you can't tell the story or the message apart from eachother.
All the puns are either backdrop or flow so well with the characters you couldn't have imagined them 'not' pulling that one at that particular instance, same as the entire world built around Zootropolis. While it's never addressed in detail, the city and it's habitats are constructed really well and it's done well enough that you don't want to or even need to question any part of it.

I'll admit that there's some obvious cues and I feel they really could have done with a few less clip releases, but there's far more than enough material left in the movie to laugh at and enjoy, even if you have been spoiled on a corner or two.

A word on the characters;
Judy Hopps has managed to assert herself as the most solid, likable and believable female role model out in fiction today. Her motivation and character are real and tangible and it makes her struggles, failures and success that much sweeter and emotional, both on the level of the characters and as an audience watching her.
One nitpick I do have to make is that one big screw-up she makes, which I really just accredit to having to have the story progress. To be fair, she realizes almost immediately how badly she messed up on that particular instance, not only because she alienates her only 'real' friend in the city on a vry personal level, but I think the other characters are a little too oblivious about it/see it a little too lightly (again, story advancement and a little bit of young audience pandering).

Having said all that; as much of a gender identity as Judy might be, she stays well away from an actually sexual character and I think that is actually one of the movies biggest accomplishments. It handles the topic of gender equality so delicately within itself you almost don't notice it's there and yet it's probably one of the most central points of the movie.
Her relationship with Nick (see it as you will) is so well balanced it feels natural, exactly the way it's supposed to be. Neither one ever really has the upper hand in a way that would suggest their gender has anything to do with it and not one of them calls the other out on any of it either (at least on that particular topic ;b there's more than enough character jokes between 'carrots' and the 'sly fox').

To those of you who'd hoped I'd start doing some r34 fan arts, I'm afraid you're going to have to look elsewhere, because I have far too much respect for the wonderful specks of light characters that are Judy Hopps and Nicholas P. Wilde to ever go there now. That is not to say I wont be drawing fan art of them when I feel like it, cutesy couple ot otherwise, but don't expect any kind of actual porn from me. There's enough artists out there who are more than willing and capable to do that, several of them have already, but I feel this is a line I wont be crossing.

I will be watching the movie again with another set of friends next week (the dubbed version unfortunately) and potentially times after that aswell, but let it be said that this is the first movie in literally years I'm actually going to buy the DVD of and that's saying something.

To everyone who read this and has seen the movie, fire away your discussions.
To everyone who read this and has yet to see the movie; get your asses out of your chairs and into a cinema, double time.

Be well.