Daily Archives: August 18, 2017

Zootopia!

In 2015 I did not see any movie at all in a theatre. In 2016, I saw three; one of them was Deadpool, which I saw on a record heat day with a free ticket, and the other two were both Zootopia. I not only liked Zootopia, I liked it enough to see it twice. So here’s your spoiler-free penny-ante review and then I’m going to jump below a fold to say something about the specifics in the universe, about the storytelling of Zootopia:

Zootopia Is Really Good. I liked it a lot and I hope you enjoy it if you haven’t seen it.

Well, now, the writing about Zootopia is already widely written. I mean, I’m in that particular overlap of the world where I can watch a community of people I respect talk about how this show is basically hate crime, because it makes cops look like human beings. And how it fatshames. And how it’s fascist to want traffic cops.

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