History Awesome / Zootopia

* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). After asking Gideon to return the tickets, he pushes her down to the ground - hard. She then kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids. The whole scene [[EstablishingCharacterMoment sums her up perfectly]].

In other words: change can be awesome [[http://www.feelingsuccess.com/zootopia-ending-scene-try-speech/]]

** Judy's overall performance at the academy is itself an [[TheDeterminator epic example of perseverance]]: she fails -- badly -- at every physical test thrown her way (and also at ''using the lavatory'') and she is told that she should just go back home. Rather than quit, Judy simply trains all the harder and she ends up graduating at the top of her class.

In other words: change is awesome [[http://www.feelingsuccess.com/zootopia-ending-scene-try-speech/]]

** Not only that but it also makes the point that ''any'' race can be treated in a racist manner, a fact often overlooked by most media. The whole moral can basically boil down to "There are always going to be walls between us. Let's build doors instead of letting them divide us."
** Heck, the movie plays a "gotcha" moment with its own aesop! After spending an hour etching "RACISM IS BAD!" on the bottom of an [[{{Anvilicious}} anvil]] and positioning it over your face, the movie goes subtle and uses Judy to deliver the ''real'' aesop: [[Theatre/AvenueQ Everyone's a little bit racist]].

* You'd think with some big blockbuster films like ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', ''Zootopia'' might not last as long as it has at number one in the worldwide box office. But nope. As of early May 2016 it's still the highest grossing movie of the year, with a little over $950 million. Not to mention it has the new record for biggest animated opening and is the third highest grossing animated Disney film behind ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' and ''Disney/TheLionKing''. Not too shabby.
** As of late May, it has now surpassed ''Disney/TheLionKing'' to become the second highest with $991 million.
** ''Zootopia'' eventually reached $1 billion in the box office, making it Disney's second film in 2016 to achieve the feat, the first being ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* Bogo's extremely dignified reaction to the ultimatum he offered coming out in a way that surprised him. He could have begrudgingly accepted or even tried to weasel his way out of what happened, but he doesn't... he gracefully and admiringly gives Judy all of the credit for her accomplishments and promotes her immediately.

* Due to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nick making the already-slow sloths at the DMV waste time until night falls]], the limo rental lot Judy needs to investigate is locked down for the night and she can't enter as she'll be trespassing. Nick tells Judy to give him the pen/recorder with the tax evasion confession as his work is done, and she instead throws it into the lot. Nick climbs the fence to get at it only for Judy to burrow underneath the fence, grab the pen, and claim she now has legal reason to be inside the lot: to investigate a trespasser (Nick). The fox is impressed at her ingenuity.

** She returns that trust durkng the climax; When she gets injured, she tries to get Nick to get the evidence over to the ZPD and [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown escape without her]], but [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind he refuses]]. Then [[spoiler: during their BatmanGambit, she trusts Nick enough to let him grip her neck with his teeth and not hurt her at all]].

** She returns that trust durkng the climax; When she gets injured, she tries to get Nick to get the evidence over to the ZPD and escape without her, [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind but he refuses]]. Then [[spoiler: during their BatmanGambit, she trusts Nick well enough for him to put her neck in his teeth and not hurt her at all]].

** She returns that trust durkng the climax; When she gets injured, she tries to get Nick to get the evidence over to the ZPD and escape without her, [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind but he refuses]]. Then [[spoiler: during their BatmanGambit, she trusted Nick well enough for him to put her neck in his teeth and not hurt her at all]].

** [[spoiler: The best part? Bellwether called the police over with a phony predator attack when she thought Nick was infected and going to kill Judy for her. She brought her own downfall upon herself.]]

* The fact that, with less than a year before release, Disney managed to basically remake a blockbuster movie to tell such a great story in such a great way.

** ''Zootopia'' has recently reached $1 billion in the box office, making it Disney's second film in 2016 to achieve the feat, the first being ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

** ''Zootopia'' has recently reached $1 billion in the box office, making it Disney's second film in 2016 to achieve the feat, the first being''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

*** In at least one showing, this moment actually got applause from the audience.
* Just Judy's indomitable spirit is a sight to behold.

* Nick and Finnick's sheer cleverness of their con using just ''one'' elephant-sized popsicle. They melt the popsicle until it's all liquid, cutting off the big stick into several smaller pieces, then drive off to Tundra Town, pour the liquid into dozens of paw-shaped holes on the ground with the smaller sticks at the bottom then wait for it to freeze. They then get dozens of 'pawsicles' for Nick to sell to the lemmings (who are apparently his frequent customers) and when they are done eating them and throw the sticks into the trash cans, ''then'' Finnick and Nick transport them to a hamster construction site, selling the sticks as [[ExactWords "red wood"]] to the foreman. Consider this: the big elephant popsicle cost only 15 dollars, and by the time Nick and Finnick successfully pulled their con, they made over ''200 dollars''. And they've been doing this for at least a decade! Not only that, when Judy attempts to arrest Nick after catching him in the act, he instead displays a brilliant use of WeNeedADistraction, CrazyPrepared and LoopholeAbuse, then turns the whole situation into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Judy instead. That's one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment.

* If ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' was an exercise in the animation of ice, and ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was an exercise in the animation of hair, then ''Zootopia'' is an exercise in textures. A good comparison is ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'', which is animated well, but doesn't even come ''close'' to how rich and detailed the fur textures are in ''Zootopia''.

** As of late May, it has now has surpassed ''Disney/TheLionKing'' to become the second highest with $991 million.

** As of late May, it's now has surpassed ''Disney/TheLionKing'' to become the second highest with $991 million.

* Due to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nick making the already-slow sloths at the DMV waste time until night falls]], the limo rental lot Judy needs to investigate is locked down for the night and she can't enter as she'll be trespassing. Nick tells Judy to give him the pen/recorder with the tax evasion confession as his work is done, and she instead throws it into the lot. Nick climbs the fence to get at it only for Judy to burrow underneath the fence, grab the pen, and claim she now has legal reason to be inside the lot: to apprehend a trespasser (Nick). The fox is impressed at her ingenuity.