‘Zootopia’: It’s feeding time for thoughtful entertainment

“Zootopia” is an achievement in world building — it feels as if you could walk out of the movie theater and book a trip to a land where giraffes drink acacia smoothies and an arctic shrew is the local Mafia don.

[...] the most convincing details have nothing to do with the technical skills of the artists who created the latest solid Disney animated feature.

There’s a lesson in the film about the relation between fear and prejudice that rings even more true in a volatile election year.

The film has small flaws, but it continues a strong run by Walt Disney Animation Studios, marked by movies that don’t resemble each other stylistically, but have complex emotional cores.

[...] like the protagonist in “Ratatouille,” Hopps has an optimistic slogan to hang onto (“Anyone can be anything!”) and filmmakers who know the power of a good montage.

When the long-standing truce between predators and prey starts breaking down, Hopps and small-time grifter Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a red fox, have to unravel the mystery.

A trip to the DMV filled with sloths, sadly spoiled in the “Zootopia” trailers, is a classic scene in animated comedy — built layer by layer and culminating with a perfect payoff.

The makers of the latest “Alvin and the Chipmunks” sequels should watch the slow-building genius of the diminutive Zootropolis mob boss’s introduction, and feel shame.

The script of this movie was nailed down long before the 2016 election campaign started, so they couldn’t have known that using borders to deny entry of an entire religion might be part of someone’s winning platform.