Disney's Zootopia

The Human World of Animals Disney’s Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush, is a delightful movie that can provide enjoyment to an audience of all ages. The story tells about a bunny named Judy Hopkins, who aspires to be a police officer when she grows up. The world she has grown up in has two main social classes of more human-like animals, predators, and prey, and shows the different kind of social norms that connect with them. Judy wants to break the status quo, and the movie shows her journey to proving herself in the big world. Along the way, she receives help from unlikely people, such as a fox named Nick, who help her throughout. While often children’s movies can follow a particular formula in its storytelling, …show more content…
The central city of the movie is a place for all animals, and Judy can experience how when she enters it. The movie cleverly creates it to accustom every type of animal, from having gerbil tubes for hamsters and smaller streets for rats, to having elevators to transport smoothies to towering giraffes. This attention to detail makes the setting feel like it functions well and is natural, which is perfect for a movie of this nature. Also, while Zootopia is a world created for animals, references to our regular world are continually made to make it feel surprisingly relatable. One illustration of this is in the city’s DMV. As many know, the DMV process is not one of the fastest. The movie recognizes this, and when Judy and Nick enter one, Judy is astounded to find sloths run it. The sloths are exaggeratingly slow, but it is humorful since it is something many have experienced. These world building techniques are done excellently and provide an immersive world to …show more content…
Throughout the entire movie, Judy is faced with a constant struggle having to deal with discrimination, social norms, and prejudice both classes share towards each other. It is not until near the end that Judy finally is accepted as a well-qualified cop as she solves the case, but there’s more to the mystery than she might have thought. The predators going “savage’ was a result of an animal in the prey group, the assistant of the mayor of the large city, creating a serum like concoction that caused this effect. The assistant mayor did this to create fear towards all predators. Predators are already a minority, so this plan puts prey even higher up in society. The situation creates a surprisingly deep message and causes us to ponder how it can apply to our