Disney Animation comes up with another winner, and Zootropolis turns out to be an extremely smart, well-made and entertaining movie. It plays the tropes of the police procedural very straight, leaving the humour to emerge from its collision with the high concept of an animal-filled human-style society. The film is propelled energetically by character and story, both of which are consistently engaging and very successfully developed. The voice talent does an exceptional job, with the excellent mis-matched pairing of enthusiastic new bunny-cop (Ginnifer Goodwin) and street-wise hustler-fox (Jason Bateman), who are together on-screen for most of the time. The design work is imaginative and well-realised; there is some wonderful playing with scale using the different animals and their environments. Even the blatant themes (prejudice, tolerance, aspiration) develop organically, apart from a spell-it-all-out tubthumping end speech followed by the now-obligatory awful closing song-and -dance number. Overall, Zootropolis is an imaginative, beautifully-crafted and well-told tale that showcases what Disney does best in a very effective contemporary manner.
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