let's wrap this up, shall we
zootopia+ boldly ends on a brutally effective metaphor. pause for a moment. think of the thousands of people, even in quote-unquote developed countries, who find themselves stuck in dead-end jobs just to get by. people who could be novelists, or engineers, or a competent twitter ceo, instead trapped in a tiring spiral of serving tables and scrubbing dishes
that's sam. sam the otter, original zootopia+ character, is adorable and charismatic and fun. she is trapped in unfunny comedy routine
who could have guessed that a scene that was very funny six and a half years ago might not be equally funny when repeated wholesale
there's one bit, near the end, where they come up with a new and darkly hilarious way to iterate the joke. (if you've seen it, u no which part.) but this was also the only short my wife and i ended up outright talking over. we know what the joke is. we remember it. from six and a half years ago
also has anyone ever enjoyed an episode of anything where a character has tickets to something important, but events threaten to make them miss it? that just activates my anxiety more than anything else man
How well does it mesh with the movie?
this is a weirder one. next time i rewatch the film, and get to the ending scene of nick and judy pulling flash over, i feel like i'm definitely going to mutter 'and also there was an otter in the backseat. and despite the direct cut to this scene from the morning briefing, it's like, half six at night'
also i guess the concert sam's going to is the dance party at the end of the movie. they all made it!
What important detail that you missed was pointed out to you by your cool wife?
guess who's back. back again
raccoon boy's back. be his friend
but also, this time, i pointed out something very important to her >:3c
i really like sam. and i liked seeing bucky and pronk, judy's terrible neighbours, in a brief appearance. despite being wholly over the sloths, i liked hearing kristen bell reprise and indeed flesh out her cameo role as priscilla
but forget them. forget all of that. this is the moment this entire 'series' justifies its existence
my special booooooyyyyyyyys ;~~;
they're here and they're sharing wine at a table for two at an upscale restaurant and refusing to take off their bulky coats despite being indoors for presumably hours
they just keep happily chatting to each other, ignoring the #zany #shenanigans occurring around them. eyes only for each other
gary is the cutest extralegal mercenary in cinema history.
circling back to how this takes place just before the film ends, i'm choosing to believe they're splashing out on a nice dinner to celebrate the fact that, while their boi leodore remains incarcerated, they have escaped any such punishment themselves. good job, zootopia+. the dream lives on
our odds of getting a 22-minute-an-episode tv show, centring around original characters like sam, has now either gone up (successful proof of concept) or down (why make more? you already got zootopia+!). either way they're probably still very low though
