The Reel Rejects - ZOOTOPIA (2016) IS HILARIOUS & SURPRISINGLY MATURE!! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching

Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, Tara, you ready to see the zoo? Go to visit the zoo? Yeah, I mean, people are going to give us crap and be like, why are you supporting the zoo? But like, you know, it's education for the kids, okay? All right, let's do it. It's education. All right, first things first on this agenda. We got to think prepper for ready down these highlights.

Starting point is 00:00:28 You guys are rocking, my popping. Tara, Tara, we have some cues from the royals. See, if you're a royal reject, we get questions from our royals, which helps us figure out what to talk about. Otherwise, Terra and I are lost. We're just wandering souls going, what do we talk about? What do we say? Tara, I'll go to your first quick thoughts.

Starting point is 00:00:50 Oh, okay. What is your feeling on the film? What did you expect going in? what do you think after going in what do you think after I asked you this question what did I think during while I was in yeah there you go you broke it down you know what I'm talking about before animation

Starting point is 00:01:10 I know nothing about it I was my expectations were low while I was in the middle of it I was like this is a great movie fun funny inventive I love Judy it talks I mean

Starting point is 00:01:26 there's like so many metaphors in this that aim towards like our society and things that are like wrong with it and racism and at the end of it I still thought this is a great movie what did you think? I think you couldn't have said it any better man

Starting point is 00:01:48 you hit the nail on the head yeah I thought it was a fun movie it was funny too It didn't, like, start off really funny, but it got, there was, like, the middle of this movie was hilarious. Yeah. I was surprised by how funny it was. Me too. And it felt like Judy and Nick were real characters.

Starting point is 00:02:11 I kept going, like, these guys have great chemistry. Yeah. But they probably weren't even the same room together when they filmed, they chose separate takes per recording line to form the chemistry. But it sold me on it, and it does highlight how when you can match voice. actors with the right animation you forget that you're listening to an actor in a voice booth and you're watching some drawing this really came to life and it got progressively more thoughtful and thought provoking as it kept going along going through you know all the AI talking points here animation quality emotional core humor and entertainment let's see here there's an engaging plot it says Character development There's character development in this movie There's a good dynamic duo

Starting point is 00:02:59 It does hit a lot on like The discrimination and fear Yeah there's not fear and discrimination Wait you got to read the central metaphor Oh yeah Okay there's a central metaphor here You know And there's prejudice and stereotyping

Starting point is 00:03:18 I typed in on Google's AI I need to review Sutopia what point should I hit Yeah And they gave me some talking points here really good stuff good stuff i feel like we did our review we did good um but no they actually do all these things are very true yeah it is uh in terms of the prejudice and the stereotyping and the classism and the sexism even that they go through like with judy being a cop like it it what's neat is that every single one of them there are obvious moments where it's like

Starting point is 00:03:49 okay this is clearly xenophobia this is clearly racism but a lot of time it's it's sort of jumbled into one. And for a story aimed at children and families to educate them, it's like presentational wise, it's all, you know, like a Disney movie. It's like a bunch of animals in the city and it's funny. But then they're hitting these topics of discrimination and favoritism and conspiracy propaganda and how that can manipulate people into. false senses of beliefs, things that are obviously been relevant forever, but continuously become

Starting point is 00:04:29 more relevant today. And I think it's really good to have a film like this for kids. And I completely forgot that the movies about any of that shit. So the fact that it comes to the forefront now, and they have a sequel coming out, which I hope doesn't drop any of that. And I don't know what more they're going to

Starting point is 00:04:45 do. But yeah, they managed to do both. They managed to be a movie that is funny. Paints a cool city. Has great leading characters like judy is an amazing main character who you really really root for and her and nick are three-dimensional while being a film that also has rich layers of nuance you know it's like if it's an adult movie it would go probably harder before a kid's movie yeah is it just right enough to make you think and it goes just dark enough for you to get uncomfortable enough to recognize and i like how the main character makes this mistake in a way which causes us to kind of check ourselves when like, ah, was I being, was I having a, you know, an unfavorable thought? Or did I say something that was perhaps offensive without realizing it was offensive, you know, causing us to check ourselves. Even if we might be well-intentioned, it might come from a, the way it's received can be harmful.

Starting point is 00:05:42 And, yeah, it's a lot about dialogue. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot about, like, conscious, unconscious bias towards others that you may not even be, like, conscious of. she was put in that position and then like you're like oh no no no like you know you don't you don't mean for that to be the actual case yeah and i liked how they they highlighted that because like her heart is not she doesn't she only realized after the fact which unfortunately there's a lot of people who get themselves in a precarious position and they they are of good heart but they only realize after the fact that they made a mistake and it's it's more about you know taking how to

Starting point is 00:06:23 ability owning up to it, which she did, saying sorry, moving on, right? Yeah. Yeah. And I like the, I like the they talk about to the words, like the institutional biases that people go through.

Starting point is 00:06:41 It's like I really feel like the Fox especially has that. Yeah. This unfavored thing. Yeah, it was a really smart film. I was surprised about how smart it was. Yeah, it's great. It's a, it's a movie that requires it's a good like rewatch film too I was surprised by the nuance of it

Starting point is 00:06:57 anyway try and reserve some thoughts here for some of these questions because I know that when we were talking and just already going into it yeah man so why don't we kick this off here with Nikki Sonrisa let's do it I feel like this is one of Disney's most ambitious films

Starting point is 00:07:13 as well as one of the most beautifully done in terms of animation and story how do you feel they handle the themes of discrimination and prejudice is there anything you would have done differently I would have had the cops shoot An innocent giraffe for just walking the streets at night, you know. I hate it. I think they did a great job.

Starting point is 00:07:36 I mean, you know, I think to get to the emotional core of seeing Judy and our Fosby bullied, you know, it killed me. I hate seeing it, like, so much that it's like, I hate it so, so much. Yeah. So I think they did a really great job. job of showing us that prejudice, the discrimination, how it feels, and what happens with the outcome of that? And then how do we get past that? How do we make it better?

Starting point is 00:08:04 Yeah. It's a good statement. It's weird because they don't really, I think one thing the movie doesn't really touch too much on is how the people in power often help propel some of these systems of beliefs. Yeah. And we don't really go with that, which is kind of smart in a way because, you know, it's less about, like, classism is a thing that's here, but it doesn't, there's no, like, one percent or bad guy, I think, you know? Yeah. And I have a feeling that the next movie might deal more with the economic side of things.

Starting point is 00:08:40 Because while you have characters like that where people living much more privileged lives, and circumstantially, I didn't get the impression that this movie was too interested in dealing specifically with that. it was more so how generations end up perceiving things while also being a story about belief in oneself and overcoming belief systems that society has often thrown on you because of who you are born as. And so I feel like for a Disney movie, they did it pretty well.

Starting point is 00:09:09 You know, you can't, I don't think you can go that harsh. Otherwise, it might undermine the experience a little bit. Yeah. But I think for what they did here was actually kind of brilliant in how they handled it. I agree. Cody

Starting point is 00:09:21 Enos It's been almost 10 years And I still can't get over the fact that Disney had a naturist Club scene Oh like a nude scene That worked as a joke In a character plot moment

Starting point is 00:09:34 Brilliant What surprised you most about this film Hmm Probably like I was not expecting it To highlight Like the biases that people have I had no idea that it was going to highlight that in such a smart way,

Starting point is 00:09:53 but still make it a fun-loving, light-hearted experience, right? That it's just, we're still like along for this fun journey, but there are some things that highlight that that can make people think, which is great. Yeah, the balance of the movie surprised me the most. It's really easy to tiptoe into one direction or another where you can be a little too funny to the point where it kind of discered. credits it and the movie also got to fall into the trap of being exactly the thing it's

Starting point is 00:10:23 talking about because a lot of times with and it comes to animals I'm not going to say any them out loud because it could be really messed up if I started doing it they they would often you know like okay we're going to make this animal this race this animal this race right and they never they never succumb to to doing that ever where any animal was a particular race or they had this stereotypical accent or something like that but they still manage to get the point across and they managed to do it in a way that was still lighthearted and accessible for children that even as this is the kind of movie then when you get older you'll pick up on the depth even more you know it's one of those things that might reach the recesses of a child's

Starting point is 00:11:06 mind but then when they get older like it's not going to change any adult's minds but whatever for a kid this could help influence the brain into going oh you know what I get what this movie is actually now saying. Yeah. So I feel like there's a lot of beauty to the way it's handled. I was actually surprised by how funny the movie was. Yeah, very great. I was one of the biggest things was like, I didn't expect this movie to be this funny.

Starting point is 00:11:27 Yeah. Hannah Vega. This movie has a lot of pop culture references more so than your average Disney film. I greatly appreciated them, but I wondered if you thought they added to the world building and entertainment or not if you did like them, what were your favorites? pop culture reference how many where were they like the popsicle let's think popsicle i remember the guy the weasel with the disney titles oh the DVD i remember one yeah exactly that's the only thing is the DVDs and they were all Disney animal DVDs yeah what are they talking about yeah what what pop

Starting point is 00:12:09 culture references are in Zootopia oh go Godfather. Oh, yeah. The Godfather. That was great. That was my favorite. Yeah, that's true. And I said that before he pulled anything up, just so you know.

Starting point is 00:12:25 Oh, yeah. And they had the Walt and Jesse thing. Oh, yeah. But that was just a line, though. Like, I, but I guess I get what you're saying. I had a really heady shoot before doing this. Something else would have required so much of my brain power. And now I'm being forced to remember something I just saw seconds ago.

Starting point is 00:12:43 But yeah, I think. I think, like, if anything, the surprise about them is they'll take, like, kids aren't watching Breaking Bad. Kids aren't watching Godfather. So to do those references, especially Breaking Bad. That's like just for the adults who are taking their children. And Godfather too. Yeah. You know. Yeah. But as the visuals of Godfather and Braith.

The Reel Rejects - ZOOTOPIA (2016) IS HILARIOUS & SURPRISINGLY MATURE!! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching

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