Stereotypes In Zootopia

Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, is a children’s movie with a much deeper and important message. In the movie, Judy Hopps, a bunny whose whole family works on a carrot farm, becomes Zootopia’s first bunny cop. Zootopia is a big city with animals of all kinds working in all kinds of jobs, just like a normal city. Throughout the movie, Judy is underestimated because of who she is, until she solves a case involving predators become dangerous, or “turning savage”. The different species of animals have different stereotypes and preconceived notions associated with them. The animals don’t expect a bunny to be able to be a successful cop or a fox to be trustworthy. Throughout the movie, comments are made without much thought that highlight the …show more content…
Even though prey is supposed to be past the fear of predators, the father still warns Judy about animals like bears, lions, wolves, lions, weasels, and pretty much all predators. Adding that foxes are the worst because it is in their biology. He even gives her fox repellent to carry around with her. Clearly Judy’s family is not past their fear of predators and she isn’t either. On her first day of work, Judy is about to leave her apartment, but turns back to grab her fox repellent. Not even she is completely immune to believing the stereotypes associated with different animals. As much as she wants to believe that animals can be anything and should be able to do anything they want, in reality she doesn’t. As Judy is working on parking duty, she sees a fox and immediately things he’s acting suspicious. She follows him, assuming he is doing something wrong. Even though she claims anyone can do anything, she still thinks of foxes as wily. Everyone wants to believe that they are not the ones believing in stereotypes and having prejudice against others, but Judy does. She wants to be above everything but to her dismay, she’s actually