Zootopia Review

Zootopia

Release Date: 17th March 2016 - Australia

Production Companies

Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distribution

Walt Disney Studios Motion

Pictures Australia

Genre: Animation/Family/

Action/Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 108 minutes

Budget: $150,000,000

Box Office Gross: $1,025,521,689 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Officer Judy Hopps has become the first bunny cop of the police department and arrives in the big city of Zootopia, where prey and predator co-exist in harmony, but she doesn't quite fit in as she should.

Judy must solve a case to prove herself with the unwilling help of a fox named Nick Wilde. Together, the pair must learn to get along and discover a conspiracy that may threaten the co-existing balance of Zootopia.

Voice Cast

Ginnifer Goodwin - Lt. Judy Hopps

Jason Bateman - Nick Wilde

Idris Elba - Chief Bogo

J.K. Simmons - Mayor Lionheart

Jenny Slate - Bellwether

Nate Torrence - Clawhauser

Alan Tudyk - Duke Weaselton

Octavia Spencer - Mrs. Otterton

Shakira - Gazelle

Tommy Chong - Yax

Bonnie Hunt - Bonnie Hopps

Don Lake - Stu Hopps

Raymond S. Persi - Flash/

Officer Higgins

Maurice LaMarche - Mr. Big

Della Saba - Young Judy

Kath Soucie - Young Nick

Phil Johnston - Gideon Grey

Fuschia! - Drill Sergeant

John DiMaggio - Jerry Jumbeaux Jr./Moose/Pig Reporter/Jesse/Woolter

Katie Lowes - Badger Doctor

Gita Reddy - Nangi

Jesse Corti - Mr. Manchas

Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Finnick

Josh Dallas - Frantic Pig

Leah Latham - Fru Fru

Rich Moore - Doug/Larry

Byron Howard - Bucky Oryx-Antlerson/Travis

Jared Bush - Pronk Oryx-Antlerson

Mark Rhino Smith - Officer McHorn

Josie Trinidad - Landlady

John Lavelle - Mouse Foreman

Kristen Bell - Priscilla

Madeleine Curry - Sharla/

Gareth/Little Hippo Whose Mother Is Given A Parking Ticket by Judy

David Campbell - David
Koalabell (Australia/New
Zealand Only)

Zach King - Muzzled Wolf

Pace Paulsen - Scout Bully 2

Fabienne Rawley - Jumbeaux's

Café Elephant Patron/Fabienne Growley

Jackson Stein - Jaguar

Pretend Actuary/Scout Bully 1

David A. Thibodeau - Gary

Crew

Story/Visual Development Artist/Director - Byron Howard

Story/Additional Visual Development/Director - Rich Moore

Story/Screenplay/

Co-Director - Jared Bush

Original Idea - Kellie D. Lewis (Uncredited)

Story/Screenplay - Phil Johnston

Story - Jennifer Lee

Story/Heads of Story - Jim

Reardon and Josie Trinidad

Executive Producer - John

Lasseter

Producer - Clark Spencer

Production Designer - David Goetz

Associate Production

Designer - Dan Cooper
Art Director: Environments - Matthias Lechner

Art Director: Characters - Cory Loftis

Visual Development Artists - Brett M. Albert, Justin Cram, Jim Finn, Mac George, Andy Harkness, Shiyoon Kim,

Jim Martin, Borja Montoro

Cavero, Nicholas Orsi,

Armand Serrano and Scott Watanabe

Lead Story Artists - John Ripa

and Marc E. Smith

Director of Photography: Lighting - Brian Leach

Director of Cinematography: Layout -

Nathan Warner

Head of Animation - Renato Dos Anjos

Co-Head of Animation - Tony Smeed

Head of Environments - Hans-Joerg Keim

Head of Characters & Technical Animation -

Dave K. Komorowski

Set Extension Supervisor - John Murrah

Layout Supervisor - Joaquin Baldwin

Animation Supervisors - Nathan Engelhardt,

Jennifer Hager, Robert Huth, Kira Lehtomaki

and Chad Sellers

Crowds Supervisor - Moe El-Ali

Lighting Supervisors - Gina Warr Lawes,
Alex Nijmeh, Amol Sathe, Mark Siegel and

Diana Jiang Zeng

Head of Effects - Cesar Velazquez

Visual Effects Supervisor - Scott Kersavage

General Technical Director - Serge Sretschinsky
Stereoscopic Supervisor/Department Leadership:

Walt Disney Animation Studios - Katie Tucker-Fico

Film Editors - Fabienne Rawley

and Jeremy Milton
Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor -
Addison Teague

ADR Supervisor - Daniel Laurie

Original Dialogue/Re-Recording Mixer -

Gabriel Guy

Re-Recording Mixer - David E. Fluhr

Music - Michael Giacchino

Executive Music Producer - Chris Montan

Music Supervisor - Tom MacDougall

Review

In recent years, the Disney animation department's renewal had scored with the infamous Frozen, which grossed a billion at the box office. It's been years since the craze of that landmark movie ended and two years after Big Hero 6. The studio has unveiled its 55th animated feature and latest production, ZOOTOPIA - a different spin on the animal kingdom. This animated feature has a Midas touch with fun and depth to the story and characters. I've noticed the film has taken liberties of inspiration from Disney's early movie and cult-classic Robin Hood. It tackles the hot-button issues of real-life society, like prejudice and police bias, that often integrate into an anthropomorphic CGI world. Disney is clever at grafting these messages into entertaining stories with a high standard of quality animation. It must mean that ZOOTOPIA is now a better movie than Frozen and a breadwinner of the House of the Mouse's animation unit.

ZOOTOPIA had a wide range of celebrity voice talents, with many well-known actors selected for huge parts. One of the best is Ginnifer Goodwin, who voices the officer with a cottontail - Judy Hopps. I was unsure about her being an actress due to her previous work in Once Upon a Time. However, her contribution to this film as the voice of Judy in ZOOTOPIA was excellent. Jason Bateman was sophisticated and witty in voicing the sly fox - Nick Wilde. We would have gotten to know more about Nick if the character had been in a more prominent role in the story, which would have been closer to the film's original vision. Idris Elba was known to many Marvel fans as Heimdall when he lent his booming distinctive voice as Chief Bogo, head of police.

I hope to see ZOOTOPIA again if it is available in other formats. It may be the best Disney animated feature released since The Lion King. Audiences of all ages will enjoy viewing the wonderful world of ZOOTOPIA and understand its message.

Star rating: (10/10) Best Movie Ever

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