>>9905640Hey, thanks, anon! It's nice to be appreciated. Have a bun!
I'd also like to say a word about the theme of prejudice and "racial" stereotyping; it's more sophisticated than I'd expect in a kids' or a Disney film where I wouldn't be surprised just to see "muh oppres'on" but it succeeds firstly by not being any kind of strict analogy (predators are not black people) and secondly by actually having some subtlety and complexity.
For a small example, the joke about "elephants never forget" was funny in its own context but also an argument about how stereotypes can distract from simply observing reality; that hippie guy went to the elephant because of the saying instead of trying to answer the question himself because of the saying about elephant's memories.
The most obvious piece of complexity is how Judy is both victim (as a small mammal) and perpetrator (against predators and foxes specifically) of prejudice what I really liked is how in the early parts of the film she's fussy about speech (she chides Clawhauser for calling her "cute") and Nick is "insensitive" throughout (calls her "carrots" and "fluff", plays with Bellweather's wool, complains about wolves howling) but it's she, not him, who has the real problem with accepting people for who they really are. That's outright a criticism of the PC focus on "politeness" instead of individual substance.
See also how at the end they are both playing with "racist" terms like "dumb bunny" and "sly fox" instead of allowing themselves to be worried by them.
A neat term with the rams at the end of the movie. It is a cliche to use predators for thugs in animal-people movies but the rams were very successfully made quite threatening.
