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Zootopia
9 years ago
So, I just got back from seeing this film and I gotta say, I'm impressed.
To put things in perspective, all of the fart, urine, and poop jokes were in the previews.
This was a really great story told with animals actually being animal-like. It even goes out of its way to explain how it is animals came to live together and their origins. There were a few stereotype characters that were of oddly chosen species (Such as the donut-loving fat-cop cheetah), but over-all it was very well done. Some of the things like 'How does a jungle animal live in the same city as a desert animal' are explained with camera angles that show 'behind the scenes' things, such as huge sprinklers hidden in the tree branches of the rainforest area.
The story itself isn't anything we haven't seen before and there's a few moments where it was easy to predict what was about to happen next, but there were enough curve balls and surprises to spice it up.
The humor was mature and I had quite a few hearty laughs with a mix of Whoville silliness and animal-behavior exploitation ( How better to distract the wolf guards than by getting them to start howling non-stop )
There were a few parts that made me twitch a little bit, such as the nudist colony, which almost seemed like a deliberate attempt to out who the perverted furrys in the audience were. I fully expect someone to re-create that scene with all the bits visible eventually.
The mob-boss was funny at first, but get drawn out a little too much with a bit too much 'Godfather reference' syndrome.
For such a long movie there were also a few times where the plot suddenly rushed ahead, and a few times where it dragged a little longer than needed, but nothing too glaring or upsetting.
Great movie. 9/10 for sure.
To put things in perspective, all of the fart, urine, and poop jokes were in the previews.
This was a really great story told with animals actually being animal-like. It even goes out of its way to explain how it is animals came to live together and their origins. There were a few stereotype characters that were of oddly chosen species (Such as the donut-loving fat-cop cheetah), but over-all it was very well done. Some of the things like 'How does a jungle animal live in the same city as a desert animal' are explained with camera angles that show 'behind the scenes' things, such as huge sprinklers hidden in the tree branches of the rainforest area.
The story itself isn't anything we haven't seen before and there's a few moments where it was easy to predict what was about to happen next, but there were enough curve balls and surprises to spice it up.
The humor was mature and I had quite a few hearty laughs with a mix of Whoville silliness and animal-behavior exploitation ( How better to distract the wolf guards than by getting them to start howling non-stop )
There were a few parts that made me twitch a little bit, such as the nudist colony, which almost seemed like a deliberate attempt to out who the perverted furrys in the audience were. I fully expect someone to re-create that scene with all the bits visible eventually.
The mob-boss was funny at first, but get drawn out a little too much with a bit too much 'Godfather reference' syndrome.
For such a long movie there were also a few times where the plot suddenly rushed ahead, and a few times where it dragged a little longer than needed, but nothing too glaring or upsetting.
Great movie. 9/10 for sure.
Hoping to catch it next week on a day off. Glad to hear it's pretty good and not /too/ actually focused 'for furries' like many hoped and seemed to think.
(There was even a 'news' article about furries hoping it would reference bad dragon somewhere XD)
Enjoy!