Summary: 4/5. Great family fun movie, with great characters and great underlying criticism of biases in society. But the humour did not always hit and the ending was sloppily executed.
“Go back to the desert” “I’m from the Savannah”. That’s where I was sold. That sounds exactly like a racist bigot (aka Trump supporter) talking to a minority race, or a xenophobic man talking to a foreigner. And it’s little moments like that that grounds the movie in real life.
Ok guy, let’s be frank the whole movie the best part was the racist commentary. From the community telling you you won’t make it in certain jobs, to workplace discrimination, to everyone using race as the reasoning for a common unexplained pattern, to racial profiling, all of it fits so well and in a way that non racist parents can explain to their kids. This is fun but it is also deeper and makes a bold statement in a KIDS movie!
The animation was okay...
But the characters make up well for it. Judy Hopps! Really enthusiastic, really fun, very bright and she’s not dumb but she has flaws and needs help from...Nick Wilde! Classic slick character and great fun. He knows his way around the “underground” and he is street smart. The chemistry and the relationship is great! At the midway mark I was like make it love and i’ll kill you this is good, this is feminism at its best, this is great female empowerment for girls...and they didn’t make it a love relationship. Yessss.
Now, my only qualm. The ending, it felt like the twist was not strong enough to be a huuuuh, but it did not have hints to allow for "a i knew it" moment. And the villain made no sense, like oh get all predators killed and we are on top but we do so by making predators go crazy. That just does not fit into the great mirroring of society. It's not like racists are radicalising extremists to make everyone hate muslims. What?!
Overall it’s a great fun, and deep and enlightening movie that fell apart at the end but it well makes up for that.
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