Movie Review - Zootropolis

This concept has been done before!! Just wanted to put that out there. So Disney's 55th animated classic and what a surprisingly good one it is. For a film that has animals take on a more human side of things with the clothes, the human jobs, the civilization and all that, it sounds like a recipe for disaster and I'm basing that on some similar films I've seen in the past which have been met with a very mixed reception. But it seems that this film just tells you to research the animals well and put it into the right hands, and you can make a great film like this. But the question that most people have is whether this film is worthy of a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Well let's hop away and find out:

Our story revolves around a rabbit called Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) who has the dream of being a police officer and to be the first of her kind to do so. After countless years of training and learning, she becomes just that and leaves her family's farm to start a life in Zootropolis as a police officer. Things start to go slow for her when she is assigned to parking duty. But when a case arises of a missing husband, she teams up with a Fox named Nick Wilde (voiced by well known comedy actor Jason Bateman) to solve the case of which she is only allowed 48 hours to do so. But as things start to get going, there seems to be more to this case that meet's the eye.

So the first thing I like is how the film is able to accurately keep the animals to the sizes that they are supposed to be. The rabbits being small, the lions being big, the mice being tiny and all that jazz. That is quite important to take into account when making a film about animals as some films forget about those things completely. As with every Disney film these days, there's plenty of Easter eggs to find in the form of hidden Mickeys, certain songs being referenced, mentioned or heard and even animalized versions of other Disney films being advertised. The film has a lot of charm, full of heart and its got great visuals. The story even tackles an issue with animals in such a way that it makes it feel like when there were times when a certain group of people weren't being accepted until an act passed and things got better. Some family films seem to not be able to tackle things like that and I'm happy that this film did it so well as its important for us to learn about things such as acceptance into society among other things. So the answer is yes, Zootropolis (or Zootopia if you live outside of the UK) is worthy of the 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes as it is fantastic. Can't say any more than that. 9/10