Zootopia is coming out... I get it, anthro animals. But watch the trailer, it doesn't seem to have anything interesting going on. I'm sure the two friends in the film will need to do a thing, about fourty five minutes in, they will have a conflict with one and other, then, after another fifteen minutes, they will put aside the thing that happened earlier to accomplish the thing, thus strengthening their friendship and making a few new friends in the process!
I am an AB, and I totally love watching kids movies for naptime, or sitting on a blanket in the living room playing. But honestly, I am drawn towards movies that I loved as an actual child. I formed an emotional connection with things like "Winnie the Pooh", "The Jungle Book", episodes of the "Batman" animated series from the nineties, ect... So, maybe it's just me, but newer children's films do nothing for me. At best, I find them "not intolerable" at worst, I grind my teeth for an hour and a half while Josh Gaad plays an insufferable snowman.
So, why do AB's avoid films meant for adults? I think "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", which is opening the same weekend as "Zootopia" looks like a really interesting and funny look at the Afghan war in 2002, journalists, and relationships. But try bringing it up when other ab's talk about film. You get nothing.
I guess I'm just frustrated. I love film. I have ever been obsessed ever since my "cool aunt" let me watch "Pulp Fiction" then lied to my mother and took me to see "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut". In high school, I spent my paychecks from Taco Bell as soon as I could cash them at Suncoast Video, hungrily watching everything I couldn't rent at the video store. Films like "Tromio and Juliet" and "Terror Firmer" (Writer and director of "Guardians of the Galaxy" James Gunn's first two films btw.), the original "Wicker Man", years before the remake, And a litany of exploitation, blacksploitation, Shaw Brothers, spaghetti western, classic Oscar winners, and downright horrendous films.
Now, I watch everything that I find even remotely interesting. "Chief" and "Turbo Kid" being two recent favorites. I even watch kids movies! I don't get excited, and I generally take nothing away from them. That's not to say I never enjoy a kid's flick, "Wreck it Ralph" and "The Lego Movie" being two that I found endlessly enjoyable. But when I'm in a chat with other pamper-butts, bringing up anything other than children's movies gets nothing but white noise, it's a real bummer.
I dunno, I'm tired, and rambling. Agree with me, or call me a dick^^.

P.S.
The new "Jungle Book" looks stunning, I can't wait to see it.