Zootopia

Yeah, same here. That's how these "buddy flicks" work.

So far it sounds like what I expected. But at least, the jokes do sound funny.

I do hope poor Judy isn't on the receiving end most of the time, though. I'd hate that.

Me too, to be honest. Sometimes the serious character becoming the Chew Toy isn't that funny.

I imagine Judy will start out as a Butt-Monkey (and from what we've seen, she looks like a major case of Slapstick Knows no Gender), but as she develops as a character, she'll suffer less and less.

It could be that with her sporting an impossibly optimistic attitude, they're able to get away with subjecting her to more of the humor without having to otherwise address why she continues to press on in spite of it.

Yeah, about that: why does widdle bunny Judy Hopps want to be a police officer? That one rhino in the teaser makes sense. He's a large, powerful, armored behemoth who'd make short work of renegade criminals. Judy is woefully undermassed for that. So, what's her motivation? Parents murdered, like with Batman? Highly doubt it, she's too chipper to be The Dark Bunny. Something must've compelled Judy to become Champion of Justice ... but what?

Maybe because she believes she could be a great police officer? Maybe she has an unbridled respect for the law? What do YOU think of when you make a goal in life?

Super short police officers exist.◊

Yeah, according to some of the articles I've read, she believes that "anybody can be anything". That includes a rabbit being a police officer, though she's just running around giving people tickets for parking violations.

And let's be honest, making "big and strong" a requirement for being a police officer is a recipe for abuse of power.

I wonder if the ultimate aesop of this is going to be a rehash of that "No, you have to accept your limitations and know your place in life." That's already what Monsters University and to a lesser extent Wreck-It Ralph did.

I thought Monsters University's message was "You don't need to go to college to make something of yourself"?

That was the other aesop. Mike's lesson, however, was very much "No, you can't be a scarer because you're not scary, and it doesn't matter how hard you try."

Which is bullshit, because an eyeball on legs appearing in the darkness of the bedroom is going to scare the beejevus out of any normal child.

edited 23rd Aug '15 7:15:40 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Particularly when the movie still posits that a purple-furred muppet man, a pink squishy lump of goo and a bespectacled, moustached octopus-hippo can be scary. At the same time we're meant to believe that Mike's stature is such a crippling handicap that he can never, ever, ever be scary despite his expertise.

Looking at NapoleonDeCheese's current avatar title... Donald Duck for Top Scarer!

Being a meter maid was not her own choice. Company regulations and all that.

-*never mind*

edited 26th Aug '15 4:57:12 PM by Sijo

Poster.◊

So March 4, then. Too far away for my liking but eh, nothing you can do >.>

'Just Zoo it'?

Groan.

What use would an all animal society have for zoos? How do they even know about the concept? If they have bird-and-reptile only zoos, okay, that makes sense, but what does that have to do with the billboard then?

Of course, that wouldn't matter at all if the visual gag was funny, but it's lame enough as to not make it worth it.

Otherwise, pretty enough poster.

Zoo isn't necessarily related to the place where foreign animals are kept, it can also refer to the general concept of animals (Zoology, hell the title of the movie is Zootopia).

Doesn't it become the equivalent of saying 'Just human it', then? Oh, forget it, we're overthinking this more than it deserves.

It's possible that "zoo" is Zootopia's equivalent of "smurf" among the Smurfs: a kind of catchall term of nebulous definition.

Or, a "zoo" as in a very busy place.