I heard people talked about this movie for many days and they all say that it is a very good film. When I saw the synopsis and noticed this was a Disney movie, I thought to myself that it definitely should be a good movie. Anyway, after playing for like less than 2 weeks, it's getting difficult to look for cinemas that are playing this movie as somehow in the 1st week of march we were flooded by 3 or 4 new movies.
On Saturday, 5 March 2016, as part of my personal "movie marathon", I chose to watch this movie first. It started with a scene where Judy Hopps, a cute 9 year old rabbit playing in a school drama about all animals can be whoever they want to be, especially in Zootopia, a metropolis town. Judy's parents, Stu and Bonnie seem to be worried watching the show as Judy wants to be a police. One of Judy's friend, Gideon Grey the fox, mocked Judy for wanting to be a police when she is just a rabbit (no rabbit ever become a police before). Judy's parents did not quite agree to Judy being a police for the same reason as well, but Judy is very insistent and she even said that if no rabbit has ever been a police before, then she will be the first one.
While talking to her parents, Judy saw Gideon and his friend bullying a bunch of sheep to give them their prize tickets. Judy tried to save them, but instead Gideon hurt Judy on her face to remind her not being a hero. She managed to get the prize tickets for the sheep though, and Judy made her mind up that she will not stop becoming a police even with such threat from Gideon.
15 years later, after all the hard difficult training, Judy really graduated from police academy and becoming the first ever rabbit to become a police. The mayor Lionheart (a lion) accompanied by his assistant Dawn Bellweather (a sheep) announce this big occasion.
Judy finally was assigned to Zootopia, just as her dream. She stayed in a tiny little apartment where the wall was very thin and voices from the neighbor can be heard. On her first day at work, Judy was assigned to parking duty by his captain Bogo (a buffalo) despite there is a case of 14 missing mammals. Judy was upset but since she is not a quitter, she decided that she will give 200 parking tickets by lunch time.
During this assignment she met a fox, Nick Wilde who she helped to buy ice cream for his "son" but he turned out to be a con-artist.
Judy started to feel that her dream is not as good as the reality because of what Nick told her and she was always assigned the parking duty. On one day at work, she was able to capture a weasel who stole something which I thought was vegetables but instead of getting the credit, she was complained by Captain Bogo. While she was being scolded, Mrs. Otterton (an otter) came to Bogo's room requesting help to find her husband who has been missing. Judy immediately offered to help since Bogo was not willing to assign anyone to assist. Even though Bogo was very upset, but since Assistant mayor Dawn informed the mayor about this, he has no choice but to allow Judy to proceed. Bogo forced Judy to solve the case in 48 hours and she should resign if she is unable to do so.
Judy did the investigation with the help from Nick Wilde (by way of conning him into admitting a crime). They both nicely combined into a good pair of investigator, although Judy is always very careful about Nick since he is a fox who has a habit of always conning. The investigation itself lead them to a lot of twists which I think if you are looking closely enough, you will be able to guess.
There are also various characters that even though are very few scenes, but they were all having some sort of relation or providing clues to the investigation.
Notable characters are Yax the Yak in the naturalist club, Flash the sloth, Mr. Big the mafia, Gazelle the singer (maybe some of you can guess the person behind her voice).
So will Judy be able to complete the task on time to keep her job as police officer? Is there any relation between the missing Mr. Otterton and the other 14 missing mammals? What will happen to Nick who is only helping Judy because he is being "forced" to? Can Judy and Nick become real friends or their relationship become worse because of a fox's nature to always con? Find out by your self.
I would recommend that you start to watch it soon, as I think by the time Kungfu Panda 3 hits the theaters next week, it will be even harder to locate a cinema still showing this one.
I had a wonderful moment watching this movie. All Disney values are there like in all the other classic Disney movies. There are some funny moments where you can laugh, touching moments where you can feel sorry and happy for Judy, even to Nick. However, I do get the feeling that this movie is a little bit mature and the messages might be difficult to absorb for children of younger age. Especially since the movie itself evolving around missing animals investigation which is usually seen in detective movies or TV series. But then again, that's just me. A lot of people say this is good movie for kids. Anyway, if you are really into a good Disney family movie, please watch it. I am very sure you will find it worth your while.
Ooo, 1 more thing. This is not a musical film like Frozen. The only song that you can see will be Gazelle singing in the end credit. This movie is good for whole family, for couples and even good enough as dating movie.
Mike's movie moments rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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