So at this point this will surprise absolutely nobody, but I saw Zootopia (UK release was delayed) and it was tremendously fun and good and amazing and yay. Srsly go see it if you haven't. :)
And the fact that the creators looked for furry culture, and so: they made ALL the extremely speciest-yet-okay-to-say puns about wolves and such! Ahahah, I groaned as much as I laughed, because it's true. X3 Chief Bogo always aught my eye, with those HORNS and those arms, and the glasses.... Idris Elba's voice does fit him... oh my. o////o;
It really gave the film a lot of interesting dimensions. :) On one hand, it gave it a lot of really funny things they could do (the wolves and their inability to NOT howl at each other totally cracked me up, and of course made me think of our dog Tesla) but at the same gave them a way to have one of the film's more serious messages be about the insidious evils of institutionalised racism. Powerful stuff for a 'children's film' certainly.
indeed. And what hit me COLD (because I've been sorta living the same falsehood) was when the chief leveled Judy, saying that life isn't a musical where all your dreams come true--in a film where the audience both came in expecting that, and was also TOLD to expect that by the movie's language up to that point! Fourth wall breaking. o.o It made me stress/cliffhang about whether Judy was living in reality, and also if she *could* make her dream come true at all. D: It was scary, maybe you can't make your dreams come true even with hard work and hope.
Nnf, yeah that was a harsh scene, kind of drawing you out of the film in a neat way and forcing you to think about what your expectations are. It did make you reconsider how you thought the film was going to go... ultimately she prevailed, but her dreams certainly didn't come true in exactly the way she originally thought. Reality, of course, was a bit more complicated than her original expectation... but she still prevailed. :)
Yeah, even just spending enough time reading/watching fiction gets you good at recognizing the hints and impending twists and such. I have an advantage, I suppose, in that I tend to let myself get swept up enough in stories that I'm just experiencing and feeling them, not actively searching constantly for hints and tropes and cliches or whatnot. So I don't always catch the twists even if they ARE broadcast in advance. After a movie I'm more likely to just be one of the people saying 'I had a really good time' than 'I saw that plot twist coming a mile off.'
-Judy Hopps to Nick Wilde, in the best come-back hustle I've ever seen~!
God, Nick's grin when he said that made me wanna kiss him... X///3
And yes augh Idris Elba did Bogo so perfectly. XD