Check out this Zootopia Review! I wrote it and our amazing team created this fun video!

We start off with some growling with a black screen and then BAM cue horror music impact: Zootopia! “Fear. Treachery. Bloodlust.” Just kidding, it’s a children’s play about how predator and prey went from being divided to being whatever they want to be and living in harmony. The adorable bunny explaining everything actually wants to be a police officer in the big city Zootopia. How on earth are these parents teaching their kids to never try anything new? What kind of parents crush their kids’ dreams?! She wants to make the world a better place – and her parents are just going to discourage her? Also, what – how many kids did she just say she had? Yikes. Two hundred and seventy five children and teaching all of them to give up on their dreams – what is the world coming to?

The fox is the bully and he’s making fun of the bunny. Too bad the bunny’s badass and kicks him right in the face! The bully hurts her and walks away, but she wins because, as she says, “he was right about one thing, I don’t know when to quit!” And now they’ve skipped ahead to her fighting through police academy training. Check out this little bunny fighting off majorly huge predators and – falling into the toilet! Poor thing is so discriminated against it’s just so sad, and now we’re totally in love with this little hero. Of course we want more than anything to watch this hero win. She’s the first police academy graduate who is a bunny: Judy Hopps – oh and don’t miss the fact that she graduated valedictorian! What a tough cookie!

Her parents are terrified of course that she’s moving into the big city and especially going to be a cop there. “It’s in their biology,” Mom reminds her that predators can’t help but be violent. Her mom sounds like the classic perfect mother, the same mother who had twelve children in Cheaper by the Dozen: Bonnie Hunt! Also notice that she’s taking a train – more on that later. And now we’re in a classic “small town girl moving to the big city” drive into the city with all the ooohs and aaahs until she gets there and is in a tiny little place with noisy neighbors and a small bed. Judy’s hopeful anyway. This is awful and I love it! Does she take the fox repellant or not? Ironically, one of our major brands for human pepper spray is by a brand called Fox also. Cute plays on words consistently throughout this movie. She comes back and takes it.

Clawhauser at the front desk is a sweet donut-eating police officer. Nice! All the predators sit down for their briefing and Hopps can barely see above the table! But she’s happy to be there. She gets excited while the other officers just roll their eyes. Everybody’s getting psyched up! The elephant in the room is not an idiom, it’s actually Francine the elephant’s birthday! See what we mean about the cute plays on words? Priority number one is 14 mammals who are missing — and they all just happen to be predators! From an otter to a giant polar bear. Wait wait wait, priority number one to Hopps is actually: why do I have parking duty? “I’m not just some token bunny!” Priorities, duh. But the boss just doesn’t care, as he repeats, many times. Hopps takes it so well though that she decides to go above and beyond. Talk about hopefulness and zeal! She writes 200 tickets before noon even though he only asked for 100 tickets all day.

Anyway, why is this fox and his kid that she just stood up for climbing on rooftops and pouring the pop into the snow? What the heck are they doing? Wait a minute, how on earth is it magically snowing? They’re obviously in the same city and the sun was just hot enough to melt a popsicle on top of a roof. So why in the very next scene is it snowing outside? And then in the next scene it’s sunny all over again! Where is logic?

Foxy Nick explains his hustle to Hopps. Flawless victory and frustration, “you can’t touch me, Carrots, I’ve been doing this since I was born.” He even figures out her entire life – except she’s our protagonist, so “double whoopsie,” Hopps is way too amazing for that to ever be what actually happens. So she stands up for herself – in a block of wet cement. Oops. Maybe she really is just a dumb bunny. We’ll see.

The next morning, Judy’s so busy being depressed she misses a robbery! Now on with the chase. Important random tidbit that won’t make sense until later: She saves some random vole lady with big hair from a giant donut and says, “I love your hair.” Skip ahead over the part where her boss basically just “doesn’t care” yet again. Hopps takes the case right in front of her boss as he says that no one can take the case because they’re busy. “You’re fired!” What, already? This makes for a short movie. Nope, the cute little lamb Assistant Mayor gives Judy the case anyway – right in front of the very angry boss. The case: find the otter. First lead: that damn fox hustler Nick from yesterday. Cute little bunny found the dark side, “it’s called a hustle, Sweetheart.” Looks like Nick has to help Hopps now.

Why is it always a llama-type creature who is like the guru that the detectives have to go talk to or the protagonists have to visit in order to find the next lead? And for some reason they’re naked, although does this really affect the plot? Anyway, so this llama guy seems to know everything but thinks that he knows nothing. It’s endearing actually, and kind of silly. More silliness with the irony of the DMV workers all being sloths! If you’re above the age of fifteen I’m sure you can totally relate to this. If you work at the DMV, please excuse the joke. Hopps hustles Nick to continue the investigation with her. He doesn’t take it seriously until he realizes that this limo is actually owned by the biggest crime boss of their city: Mr. Big. How cutely ironic, the polar bears are the henchmen of the vole named Mr. Big. Right when they’re about to die because Mr. Big doesn’t appreciate the words coming out of Hopps’ mouth, that big hair vole lady is back. It’s Mr. Big’s daughter! And she saves their lives because she recognizes Hopps for saving her from the giant donut and now they have associates in the crime boss world. Also, apparently Emmitt Otterton, the missing otter, disappeared after attacking the jaguar driver of Mr. Big and turning savage.

They check on the jaguar driver, Mr. Manchas, for more information and they learn about Night Howlers. Mr. Manchas turns savage and attacks them! Wait a minute, why are we watching a scene about some Gazelle app? I guess you can put your face into a dancer with Gazelle and it looks real? The officers like it, but how does it relate to the story? Does this have anything to do with the plot? Why. Is. This. Here?

Newsflash: Judy Hopp’s boss doesn’t care again. I’m so surprised. Nick saves the day as there is some plot thickening on where the savage jaguar went. Follow the Night Howlers! Nick saves Judy’s job, wonderful! That’s a hustle, Sweetheart. He’s got a backstory and a heart! Sentimental moments lead to the genius idea that traffic cams will help them to see what happened and solve everything! Time to go visit our little lamb friend the Assistant Mayor again. They found it! Smellweather, the awful nickname for the Assistant Mayor may or may not count herself when she goes to sleep. Anyway, they find out that the Night Howlers are wolves and track them to find Otterton.

So Otterton is locked in some facility along with the other fourteen missing mammals! These predators have all turned savage and what’s worse is that the mayor is actually part of the scheme. It looks like the lion mayor is trying to save his job. So Judy calls her nonchalant boss and gets the mayor arrested after a thrilling scene of them having to escape trespassing this secret facility. Again with the random scene about the Gazelle app.

Judy Hopps is the newest recruit and she amazingly found these fourteen mammals so she gets to talk on the news. Nick tries to coach her by saying that Judy should answer their question with her own to sound smart, but she flubs anyway and alienates Nick. Nick hands her back the application to work for the ZPD and become her partner. And how dare she carry around the fox repellant she almost left at home earlier in the movie! The world is ending, the news reports continue to separate predators from prey, and Judy Hopps is sadder than she’s ever been. The ZPD offers her a promotion and she turns in her badge and goes home instead.

At home she discovers that Night Howlers are actually a flower! And bunnies can go savage! Wait a minute, her parents just toss her the keys of the family truck with absolutely no explanation? Seriously how are they going to get around while she’s in Zootopia? They’re just good with having no transportation while their daughter – who, remember used a train at the beginning to get to Zootopia – takes their family truck into the city. Not to mention for the entire rest of the movie in Zootopia, she either travelled on foot or in that little meter maid car she had before. But Bunny Daddy just tosses her the keys like it’s something to do.

Judy finds Nick, explains it to her that someone is targeting predators on purpose and making them go savage. He requires an apology but then they work together again! Mr. Big helps them to get information from the weasel Judy arrested in the beginning, they almost fall off of a moving train, their evidence blows up in that same train and Nick saves the day again. Really, all along it was Assistant Mayor Smellweather who was targeting predators on purpose so she could take over Zootopia. The mayor is released and the world goes back to harmony! Gazelle makes sense and it all ties together perfectly. Cute ending!