“A well thought out and very witty movie… one for the whole family to enjoy”

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2022

Sure to speak to kids and grown-ups alike, Zooptopia unfolds a poignant lesson about how prejudice can hurt people, but also how it can be overcome. And it does all this in a wonderfully fun film.

| Dec 30, 2016

There are enough under-the-radar subtleties, rendered with a refreshing lack of smart-aleckiness, to make Zootopia feel current and fresh. It's a modest, unassuming entertainment that's motored by a sly sensibility.

| Dec 30, 2016

It's a total hoot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2016

Zootopia pulls together various elements - a neo-noir mystery, a buddy-cop comedy, and timely social themes - into a mostly entertaining animated film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2016

The genius of the film lies in its combination of traditional Disney characters and situations with a very subversive storytelling style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2016

The film feels like a riposte to Trump-ism. It also contains some of the best sloth-related humour you will ever see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2016

An encouragingly upbeat celebration of love and diversity in times of hate and uncertainty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2016

The animation is first rate - fur is rendered so realistically that it could trigger an allergy at 50 paces - but it is the writing that elevates the picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

There's a magical moment in every movie of quality, a reciprocal bond between screen and viewer, where your shoulders happily drop, you sink deeper into your seat and your soul secretly smiles because it knows that you are in the safest of hands.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

The fictional universe it presents - a human-free world where mammals have evolved into a bustling, civilised society - is vividly realised, richly detailed and very funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

One of the film's great strengths is the trust it puts in its young audience to decode its complex, nuanced message about the value of difference.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Just relish the zingy jokes and in-jokes; a slow-burn dialogue scene with sloths that's an instant classic; the elastic character animation; and the pacy, racy disrespect for PC of all hues and flavours.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2016

Zootropolis has a plot you can really, ahem, sink teeth into.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2016

The tale of a plucky rabbit and a sly fox, it's also a meditation on human nature, civil society and the politics of stereotyping. And it has great sloth jokes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 16, 2016

Zootopia excels on so many levels that it stands with the finest of the Disney classics.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 10, 2016

"Zootopia," like its heroine, is zesty, bright, and breakneck, with chase scenes and well-tuned gags where you half expect songs to be.

| Mar 7, 2016

In many ways a conventional movie, but it unfolds with so much wit, panache, and visual ingenuity that it outstrips many a more high-concept film.

| Mar 6, 2016

What saves this big-budget cartoon behemoth is its modest, old-fashioned storytelling.

| Mar 4, 2016

Disarming characters... multidimensional plot form the core of an atypical Disney movie that's right on the mark...

Full Review | Mar 4, 2016