"Death, blood, everywhere".

What? Are you talking about Zootropolis? Zootopia? Zoomania? As in the new Disney animation-
Let me finish, I'm trying to be dramatic.

"Blood, blood everywhere!" A nine year old Judy Hopps, our smart and determined protagonist, declares in a school play. In an engaging opening scene, a flashback illustrates the dream that Judy has always possessed - to be a cop.
Fast forward to the present where a now 24 year old Judy has accomplished her dream and has graduated top of her class and become the first bunny police officer in the city of Zootropolis.
But it's not all carrots and gravy because police chief Bogo assigns her to parking duty but Judy being Judy makes sure that she is the best darn parking duty officer ever. It's on this job that Judy meets Nick Wilde, a red fox who lives up to his stereotype by being a sly con artist.

After coming across a mysterious case at work and given 48 hours to solve it, Judy hopps (ha ha) on the case and gets Nick to help her.

Now let me just say this:
I loved this film.
I went with my friend Ardelle and honestly, we were loudest laughers and most animated (I'm on a roll, ha) viewers there. When the movie was done, these bunch of kids turned around and gave us such a look.

Zootropolis is weirdly so relevant to today's society and the two have many parallels.
If you want to explain racism, discrimination and inequality to a child, take them to see this film.
For one, as I said, Judy is the first bunny cop ever and boy, does everyone let her know it. She's discouraged by everyone, especially her parents. They are lovely parents don't get me wrong but they are so scared of the danger of their daughter (one of over two hundred kids) going off to the big city all alone where prey and predator live as one.

Then there's a scene in which Judy meets receptionist Benjamin Clawhauser who calls her 'cute'. Judy doesn't skip a beat in replying that only other bunnies can call each other cute; it's offensive when other animals do it.
My jaw dropped in amazement; they made it seem so simple. I straightaway leaned over to Ardelle and said that it's just like 'the n word'.

Later on, there's a moment when Nick grabs and plays with a sheep's hair and Judy chastises him, saying that 'you can't just go round grabbing people's fur'. Did I mention that the sheep's hair was shaped like an afro?

In addition to all of this, like I said, this film is truly hilarious. There are two scenes that nearly had me on the floor:
There's a Godfather reference. And yes I know that I said in Unpopular Opinion that I wasn't a fan but I also said that I loved a particular reference. And that's the reference that they put in the film. Honestly, I'm fighting a laugh right now.
Then there's the sloth scene which has been used in advertisements for the film. A DMV run by sloths is pretty much a joke that writes itself and I shed a tear laughing. And I found it soo cute that the makers of the film Byron Howard and Rich Moore, added Kristen Bell to the film as a sloth (guys if you didn't know, she is a die-hard lover of sloths. YouTube her on Ellen).
Here's some of the scene:


My one pet peeve: the 3D. Don't waste your time and especially money on watching this in 3D because it's totally unnecessary. Like, one hat is thrown towards you. That's it.
BUT
If you haven't already seen this film, it's a ten out of ten, I would definitely recommend.

*this post has been in my drafts for ages, like I watched this film the day after it came out, so that long. My life has consisted of writing essays, reviews, screenplays and catching up on sleep but life is good and God gets all the glory.