Zootopia - Missing Otter"Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song
and your insipid dreams magically come true.
So, let it go." Nothing big to talk about in this Chapter, but we finally get around to a case. Took 30 minutes to get there, but the set-up doesn't feel as long as it does in Big Hero 6 because the world here is much more interesting. There's a joke I didn't catch before. When Judy is being chewed out, one of the marks against her is "inciting a scurry." The scene's big joke (quoted above) I go back and forth on. It's too on the nose, but we largely live in a world now where you can't say those three words without putting the image of Frozen in people's heads.
Because I hated Jenny Slate's version of comedy in her film Obvious Child, I resist liking her here. The voice is a good fit, but my gut tells me anybody else would've been funnier in the part. (She already delivers her lines a lot like Sarah Chalke.) That said, I've already started using the quote,
"And I've sent it and it is done, so I did do that." in my conversations.
This is one of my favorite scenes with Chief Bogo. Idris Elba does a great job not being the typical angry police chief. He's gruff and it's nicely done in an animalistic way with grunts and pounding his hoof on the table. He's also openly racist towards Judy, who he would rather fire than let her be anything other than a meter maid.
This is also the scene where I finally came to like Clawhouser, when the large cheetah runs into the office out of breath and holding his back because Mrs. Otterton ran past him. (
"I tried to stop her. She's super slippery.")
Rating: * * * - Good