A Rookie Bunny Cop and a Sly Fox become unlikely partners when a serial kidnapping case takes the city of Zootopia by siege.

I'm more Wreck-It Ralph than Inside Out. I'll take a fun story over extended sappy drama any day of the week. One of the directors, Rich Moore, directed Wreck-It Ralph. It makes sense I like this. The animation isn't a visual mindfuck, but it's easy on the eyes. Nothing flashy, but nothing sloppy either.

The story is kinda fuckin' rad. I hear people complain the story is too PC, but I'm one of the most politically incorrect reviewers around, and I think Zootopia is the motherfucker. Maybe, real politically incorrect people, are truly the most open-minded?

The…

CW: race, white supremacy

My nephew insisted we put this on, then quickly got distracted by all his new toys. Regardless, it fit nicely into my Disney consuming schedule, so here we are, on the other side of perhaps the perfect encapsulation of how white people view racism: as a thing of the past caused by non-white people. That seems to be the metaphor, anyway, with a few stand-in counter-examples. It also doesn't necessarily understand the layers of the term "predator" when it comes to race, making it particularly tone deaf, nor does it seem to get that the term "savage" is racially charged as well. For a film about racism, this is an insensitive, racist mess. Both sides of…

a metaphor for racism always falls on its face when you use the animal premise. the biological aspect of racism has long been debunked as a social construct, and using prey and predator animals as a metaphor for real life racism works better as a pro-racism message than an anti racism one. 

in one shot, we see a tiger sitting on a train, which evokes a response from a nearby rabbit and her child. she clutches her very tiny baby to her chest, and this scene is supposed to mirror real-world microaggressive racism. but here’s the thing— they’re fucking animals. that rabbit is expressing a totally natural survival instinct. in saying that, they are actually perpetuating a micro aggression themselves.…