First and foremost, Zootopia’s humor can be appreciated by the entire family. It has it all from puns, to parodies, to countless wisecracks. Judy has an Ipaw (Ipod) with artists such as Catty Perry( Katy Perry), Fur Figthers (Foo Fighters), Guns N’Rodents ( Guns N’ Roses), Kanine West (Kayne West) etc. Moreover, Zootopia parodies a scene from the Godfather, a classic 1972 movie. In this scene, Mr. Biggs, a rodent, is a mafia boss with a menacing posse of polar bears. Mr. Bigg mentions how …show more content…
When Judy first enters the ZPD department Clawhouser, an overweight, flamboyant cheetah calls her cute. In Zootopia ‘cute’ is a word reserved only for other bunnies. Simply put, another bunny can call another bunny cute but when another species does it its offensive. This is a direct parallel to minorities and slurs such as Black people and the n-word. However, the most controversial uproar in Zootopia comes from the well-intended Judy Hopps. In a damaging press conference, she unknowingly and ignorantly condemned all predators. To paraphrase Judy’s speech, she tells how savagery is in a predator’s nature, it is their biological. Judy continues this bigotry attitude with her friend, Nick Wilde by telling him he is not like “them” (the other predators). The heroine narrow-mindedness almost rips apart Zootopia and her