I watched it as a double feature with Get Out; I called it my "Children of Zootopia" double feature (a furry world movie and a critically acclaimed genre take on the current racial landscape in America, which Zootopia managed to squish into one movie) but as a horror/furry double feature, I don't know whether it was better or worse than my last one (Prometheus/Madagascar 3, in which one was a piece of utter crap, and one was a masterpiece, and if you're unfamiliar with me, you might be surprised by which is which); at least this time, both movies turned out at least alright.
A few points:
- The movie ironically seemed smashed together from the three furry world movies of 2016; Kung Fu Panda 3's Chinese/American co-production status, Zootopia's basic plot and Sing's musical elements.
- Hey, sheeps are good guys and predators are bad (and actually, apparently, sometimes eat other sentient prey animals)! Feels downright repressive.
- Eddie Izzard as Angus Scattergood seemed to be off in his own movie, for both better and worse.
- Cassidy missed this, but Sam Elliot as the yak is basically reprising his role from The Big Lebowski. Except, you know, as a yak.
- Speaking of yaks and other furry world movies of 2016/17, yaks had a banner year, though if your only images of yaks were Kai from Kung Fu Panda 3, Yax from Zootopia and, uh, IMDB is calling him Fleetwood Yak, I guess, well, you'd have no idea what a yak actually looked like.
- Dharma is a vixen who plays bass, which is definitely something I would have noted in my review (and does mention that she thinks Bhodi is cute, so, for those keeping track at home, this is the closest any furry world movie of 2016/17 got to "cross-species pollination" after Sing also dropped the ball).
I watched it as a double feature with Get Out; I called it my "Children of Zootopia" double feature (a furry world movie and a critically acclaimed genre take on the current racial landscape in America, which Zootopia managed to squish into one movie) but as a horror/furry double feature, I don't know whether it was better or worse than my last one (Prometheus/Madagascar 3, in which one was a piece of utter crap, and one was a masterpiece, and if you're unfamiliar with me, you might be surprised by which is which); at least this time, both movies turned out at least alright.
A few points:
- The movie ironically seemed smashed together from the three furry world movies of 2016; Kung Fu Panda 3's Chinese/American co-production status, Zootopia's basic plot and Sing's musical elements.
- Hey, sheeps are good guys and predators are bad (and actually, apparently, sometimes eat other sentient prey animals)! Feels downright repressive.
- Eddie Izzard as Angus Scattergood seemed to be off in his own movie, for both better and worse.
- Cassidy missed this, but Sam Elliot as the yak is basically reprising his role from The Big Lebowski. Except, you know, as a yak.
- Speaking of yaks and other furry world movies of 2016/17, yaks had a banner year, though if your only images of yaks were Kai from Kung Fu Panda 3, Yax from Zootopia and, uh, IMDB is calling him Fleetwood Yak, I guess, well, you'd have no idea what a yak actually looked like.
- Dharma is a vixen who plays bass, which is definitely something I would have noted in my review (and does mention that she thinks Bhodi is cute, so, for those keeping track at home, this is the closest any furry world movie of 2016/17 got to "cross-species pollination" after Sing also dropped the ball).