Zootopia and Race
Written by Creator Jonathan Carlin on Creators.co
SPOILERS! MAJOR ZOOTOPIA PLOT POINTS AND THEMES REVEALED BELOW!
Zootopia at a glance is a classic animated kids movie. A cute and unlikely hero, teams up with a sly and unlikely friend to take down an unlikely enemy. Peel back even just the first layer though and you'll find there is much more going here than just a cute kids movie.It is pretty common these days for animated movies to contain some innuendoes and jokes for the parents in the audience that will just pass right over the kids. Zootopia does this as well but instead of just making jokes they did it with a political issue: Race. The question is how well did they handle it?
Let's take a look at a few quotes from Zootopia:
“I'm not just some token bunny.”
“Are all rabbits bad drivers?”
“Oh c’mon you’re not THAT KIND of Predator"
Wait what!? Did Judy Hopps just turn “Cute” into the bunny equivalent of the n-word?