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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Zootopia (movie)

I know it's a kid movie, but why don't the animals have butt holes, penises, or vaginas? It may seem like I answered my own question with the first clause there, but there is a section of the movie where the clothed bunny and fox characters go to an animal "nudist" colony. And the innocent country bunny is flustered by all the animals parading around in their "natural state." It's funny on the surface because of the anthropomorphic (no shame if you have to look it up.  I did.) effect. I'm sure I've seen that same exact scene play out in other movies with actual humans. And to the same humorous effect. But where's the butt?

And this is a female elephant, so there should be other parts as well.  To prove my point, I just spent 10 minutes googling elephant vagina, elephant asshole and elephant anus.  And surprisingly, there are very few pictures of elephant parts on the internet.  There are actually more pictures of humans (please please please be veterinarians) with their arms inside elephant butts that there are of elephant butts.

So besides that somewhat unreasonable complaint, I thought the movie was okay. It was funny, with jokes for both the kids and the adults.  It was just to heavy on the social commentary for me. I mean, super obvious social commentary. Yes, I get it Disney.  I agree that racism/discrimination is bad.  But I think there were about a dozen times one of the characters said something along the lines of "Just because I'm a [insert type of animal] doesn't mean I'm [insert trait of that animal]."  The bunny character even said "I'm not just a token bunny."  It just seemed a little forced. But it's a kid's movie, so maybe I'm being to critical.

The best part was shown in one of the trailers and involved the sloths working at the DMV.  Besides the obvious social commentary (and playing into the sloth stereotype of slowness) this part was my favorite part. And judging by the audiences reaction, just about everyone else's too.  I can only imagine the animators painstakingly watching video of people doing stuff (stamping paper, stapling) frame by frame.  Far and away the best 12 seconds of the movie was the sloth's reaction when the fox tells him a joke.  I'll stop right here, because the entire movie is worth it to just see this part.