So... Is that a 5 out of 5, or an 11 out of 5?

11 out of 5!

It's getting a 9.0 out of 10 by IGN and Rotten Tomatoes is giving a 98!

I just got home from seeing it too.... Was so good. I -almost- got back in line to see it again >.> But I'll save that for monday.

im gonna find people around me to go see it again and again!

I'm amazed that, for once the US is last to see it! :p I've seen it a couple weeks ago, and it is awesome!

it vastly exceeded my expectations! The way the world was built and the history of the culture was so well thought out that it didn't feel forced. Rather than Disney's usual route of "here are animals acting like people for no apparent reason whatsoever" they actually laid out an evolutionary path that explained it AND wove a whole plot around it!

They did a massive work on this thing to make a comprehensible and logical world. And especially with the city! I want to have a plan of that city! It looks so nice, so thought out to accommodate the many different animals with their vastly different needs.

it would be easy enough to find a plan. theres several maps littered throughout the movie!

I wonder if they made a comprehensible map of the place, with points of interest and such, something that goes beyond what's shown in the movie.

i doubt it. the map looked pretty detailed but i dont think it was THAT detailed.

Actually, I was slightly pondering if it shared any blueprints with Disney's Future City. (Whatever it was called.)

That is kind of a strange move. Another strange move is that in different nations, the film is localized! That means that there quite literally are different scenes to be viewed. The biggest one is in the news casts. Why they did that? Not sure.

Actually, I like the localization thing, if only for one reason: given the message of acceptance and tolerance that is core to the movie, the localization shows that the US isn't the center of the world.

It also makes some of the little side-things understandable by people who do not always speak English, like signs on the streets, journal header and so on. It gives even more depth to the world for people outside the US and who are not english-speaker. Besides, from what I've read, they haven't changed much to the movie, a few minor scene like the TV news cast, which varies to reflect the way the more popular news presenter in some countries is or acts.

The only thing that puzzles me was the change in name... Zootopia is ok in many languages, since the word is, literally, two greek roots together:
- 'Zoo' meaning 'animal'
- 'topia' meaning 'a place'

Thus Zootopia is, literaly, 'The place for animals'. ^^

there could have been a name change because the greek root words could have alternate meanings in different languages or they could sound like a similar word that would make the name of the city loose impact. Language is a fussy thing when you want the people to think "a place for animals" instead of "an umbrella stand for children with small feet" or something. i dunno. lol

Yeah, haven't thought about it that way.

Most likely that in different cultures, the name may not have as much impact, may share an undesired meaning, be too much like another local word...might actually sound too much like a movie that is known there.

Like I'm reminded of classic Pac-Man. When they were ready to import the game, the creators thought Puck-Man would be totally fine. Round disc character looks like a puck, after all. However, in America, a P and an F are very easy to modify with barely anything. (Chewed up wad of gum...) Then, you got public signs all over the place that are stating a very inappropriate word. It would have been something far harder to catch for those that did not speak the local language. A very good catch by the localization team, stopping a potential joke that could still be legit to this day. (After all, last time I stopped by an arcade, they had this Pac-Man ticket dispenser game...)

Indeed, there's also the play on utopia, with all the animals living happily together.

A bit of research seems to indicate that the change in name is mainly due to copyright reasons, ie the name 'zootopia' was already copyrighted in some countries, thus forcing them to change the title rather than risk lawsuits and such.

it was a nice nod to whatever area was viewing it. something they could relate to since from what i could tell there were no primates in this new world. the only thing that got to me was that they never really went into much detail on food. I mean, there are a LOT of obligatory carnivores in the predator family. What do they do now that they cant eat meat? I imagine the egg and soybean industry really took off. Although as my mate just pointed out to me, the sentient animals were all only mammals so I guess chicken and fish would still be doable.

As has been pointed out a few times, there seem to be no birds present in the city. Nor do we know about any fish. Of course, in a world without Humans, who is to say that the rest of the evolutionary lineup ever happened, either.

I'm also reminded of a restaurant in Hollywood that is all about making food out of Tofu. Thing is, they make this stuff into meat. Has wooden bones and other tricks that fool the senses...for the most part...into saying that this T-Bone or chicken leg is little more then faux meat that never had a face.

actually there is this one group that managed to make literal meat out of plants! The stuff that makes up meat is not limited to only animals. you can get protein chains and fats from plants as well. They just reconstituted it with science into meat and apparently the texture is pretty much spot on. :D

I do theorize that it is possible to grow meat like plants. So it does make sense to me. After all, at the core, it's all just cells and basic compounds and DNA coding and such.