DVD of the week: Zootropolis
I rate this movie 7½/10, it is clever, funny and very entertaining. I would recommend this movie not only for children but especially for adults as well. Zootropolis is a 3D animated adventure comedy by Walt Disney Pictures. At first glance, the film seems like a buddy cop children’s movie, but I was mistaken because …
The film is about a little bunny, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) that has always been different from the rest of the burrow. Living in the countryside and being a carrot farmer was just never the life that she imagined.
She rather dreamt of becoming a police officer in the great city of Zootropolis, where lions and sheep get along and there is no such thing as predator and prey.
From the largest elephant to the smallest mouse, the city of Zootropolis is a mammal metropolis where various animals live and thrive in total Utopia.
When Judy grows older, she attends the police academy and becomes the first ever rabbit police officer. She fulfils her dream and moves to the great city of Zootropolis but not everything here works out as she dreamt it.
When she jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case, she doesn’t think of what it will unveil, and that also means working with a wily fox, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), who makes her job even harder.
Throughout the investigation, she learns that different animals, even in utopia, can’t always live together in harmony – and predators and prey will always be just that.
This film might seem like just an adventurous kiddies movie, but it also holds a deeper story line about how different groups share certain spaces in the society.
I rate this movie 7½/10, it is clever, funny and very entertaining. I would recommend this movie not only for children but especially for adults as well.
*Zootropolis has no age restriction but parental guidance is advised.*
Zootropolis is available for rent at DVD4home on the corner of Retief and Govan Mbeki streets. Tel: 018 293 3895.
