The story begins 15 years before, when a young bunny named Judy Hopps is performing in a school talent show. She and the other kids express what they desire.

Judy wants to become a cop when she grows up. However, despite their kind personalities, Judy’s parents don’t exactly support that. They are unable to imagine a rabbit being a police officer.

Shortly after, though, this mean fox kid named Gideon Gray, bullies some other children. Judy defends them.

Years have passed. Judy is now the valedictorian of her graduating police academy class. Mayor Leodore Lionheart is also speaking there.

Judy begins her job at the Zootopia Police Department. But none of the other animals understand her since she is a rabbit and seen as stereotypical prey.

Chief Bogo, who is an African buffalo and in charge, assigns the cops different duties and missions. Judy is told to give parking tickets, which she does not look forward to.

Yet she finds a lot of cars that need them since their time based on the meters has expired. She gives hundreds of tickets within a few hours.

She also runs into this fox con artist named Nick Wilde. He is trying to get a specific popsicle for his kid as a birthday treat. Unfortunately, the place doesn’t serve foxes since they see them as threats.

Judy, however, catches the staff, all of whom are elephants, using unsanitary methods. She issues them a health violation. Then she gets Nick the popsicle for his child.

Regardless of her kind action, though, Nick doesn’t believe that Judy could ever be a real cop. Of course, that dissatisfies her.

Nick decides to sell things on the street the next day. When Judy almost penalizes him for vending without a permit, Nick proves that he actually has one.

At some point, there is a theft going on nearby. Judy decides to take action to arrest the thief. The criminal is a weasel called Duke Weasleton.

Even though Judy successfully arrested Weasleton, Chief Bogo disapproves of that. He almost fires her—until somebody else thinks that she still works there.

A female otter named Mrs. Otterton goes to the police station. She reports that her husband, Emmitt, is missing, and gets all emotional because they also have kids.

Judy is willing to resolve the case and find Emmitt. Chief Bogo gives her the green light for that. However, she has 48 hours to complete the task. Otherwise, she has to resign.

Despite not having a good start with Nick, Judy lets him assist her. There are several places they need to go to, however.

One is a naturalist club, where all the animals are “naked”—they still have fur, but don’t wear clothes. Then Judy and Nick go to the DMV—only for all the staff to be sloths and super-slow, including the ways they speak. There, they receive an address for the limousine that abducted Emmitt from a club.

Judy and Nick are now in a snowy area, surrounded by big, tough polar bears. Although they get tackled, they eventually meet Mr. Big, who is a solemn Arctic shrew. He nearly has Nick and Judy go into an ice hole as a punishment for how Nick had previously treated him. But his bubbly daughter, Fru Fru, stops him because Judy saved her from Weasleton. So, Mr. Big doesn’t penalize them.

He also reveals that Emmitt “went savage” and attacked the black jaguar, Renato Manchas, who was the driver. In addition, Manchas brings up the fact that Emmitt mentioned “Night Howlers” before he lost control of himself.

Yet without warning, Manchas goes savage and attacks Judy and Nick. Judy is desperate to show proof to the ZPD.

On the way back to Zootopia, Judy and Nick also decide to become friends. Once they return, though, Bogo is close to firing Judy. But then Nick says they still have a few more hours.

Sometime later, she finds cameras that show footage of Manchas getting dangerous. This is thanks to Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether, who is a “kind” sheep.

Judy discovers that Manchas was kidnapped by Timberwolves. This causes her to assume that they are the Night Howlers.

Nick and Judy also learn that all the missing predators have gone savage. Not long after, there is a town meeting where Judy needs to speak. Reporters ask her lots of questions. She presumes that the predators are letting out what their ancestors felt and that being aggressive is in their nature.

This leads to hurting Nick’s feelings. Judy tries to apologize, but Nick won’t accept it. If that’s not bad enough, she resigns from ZPD.

But can she turn things around and make them better?

This movie kept me engaged all the way through. It had a lot of humorous moments. I laughed several times.

The worldbuilding was also strong. Even though Disney has included talking animals in their films numerous times, including upright ones, they dive into some scientific accuracies.

A big part of this story is how predator animals are not trusted. Another strength is how they have real animal traits be part of their evolutionary backgrounds. This also plays a role in the movie’s character development.

Judy was determined to be a cop, even though rabbits are prey animals. Nick just wanted to be trusted, despite how foxes are predators. And Nick and Judy made a nice duo.

I also admire how Judy’s parents were sweet and gentle, even when they didn’t believe in her. They spent their careers selling carrots, as did most bunnies.

I found it humorous that Nick’s child was a toddler but could also talk in a manly voice and gangster style. It was so minor that I found it no big deal that Nick barely reacted to that.

Regardless of the strong worldbuilding, I found the sloths speaking too slowly to be kind of offensive. I know the purpose was to show how slow they are. But some real people with certain disabilities also talk slowly and can’t help it.

Another flaw, which is more minor, is how this movie is pretty long. It is around an hour and three quarters.

But the humor and fast pacing make the film feel like it’s breezing by. And if you haven’t seen this movie, know that it’s not a musical. As usual, several twists and turns occur.

Overall, I enjoyed Zootopia. It was a fun movie with a fantastic and creative concept along with lots of humor.

I give this film 4.5 out of 5 stars.