Twenty Five Seven

Good news — another hour has just been added to every 24-hour day (don’t ask us how. We have powers). How do you use those extra sixty minutes?

Sleep what else? Especially when you work night shifts or late evenings shifts and reach back home at 4:20 am then sleeping in an extra hour is like magic. It does wonders for the body and spirit and certainly your health. So I might do that extra sleep in for the extra 60 minutes.

If not sleep then I will spend it online like I am now. More Youtube videos or Facebooking or Twitter posts reading and replying. Or maybe watch an episode of a favourite tv show.

Prompt from The Daily Post at WordPress.com

Zootopia

Zootopia is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated buddy cop comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 55th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The film is directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, co-directed by Jared Bush, and stars the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Tommy Chong, J. K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, and Shakira.

This is set in a world where all the animals have evolved to become anthropomorphic and civilized, living in mostly harmony. A young bunny girl named Judy Hopps dreams of becoming the first bunny to join the police course. Bullied by a bigger red fox kid named Gideon, Judy uses everyone’s doubt to spur herself on and be top of her class at the academy. Mayor Lionheart assigns her to a prescient in the big city, Zootopia. Judy is full of hope and wants to make a difference but excluded from handling the top-priority missing predator cases and assigned to parking duty by Chief Bogo, who doubts her potential. During one of her shifts, she meets Nick Wilde and Finnick, partners in crime, who con their way to get free Jumbo pop which they then melt down to sell as ice pops and make a huge profit. Judy abandons her shift to arrest Duke Weaselton, a thief who stole what appear only to be onion bulbs. Upon Weaselton’s apprehension, Judy is reprimanded by Bogo.

Bogo is however reluctantly forced to assign the case of the missing Bennett Otterton due to pressure from the assistant mayor Bellwether and the fact that Judy volunteers in front of Mrs. Otterton. She is given 47 hours by Bogo to solve the case or resign. Judy tricks Nick into assisting her by covertly recording his confession to tax evasion. Judy and Nick determine that Mr. Otterton was last seen entering a limousine, which is tracked to the Tundratown crime boss, Mr. Big. He informs the pair that Otterton, his florist, had “gone savage”—reverted to a feral state—and attacked his chauffeur, Manchas. Judy and Nick locate Manchas, who mentions Otterton had been yelling about “night howlers”. Soon after, Manchas himself goes savage and chases the pair out of his home. Judy calls ZPD for support but when the cops arrive Manchas is no where to be found. Nick defends Judy, reminding Bogo that they still have ten more hours to solve the case. As the pair leaves, Judy learns from Nick that as a child, he was bullied for being a fox and subsequently became a con artist, believing that he would be stereotyped regardless.

Judy and Nick consult Bellwether for access to the city’s traffic camera system and identify Manchas’ captors as wolves, which is what Judy believes Otterton had meant by “night howlers”. Judy and Nick locate Otterton and the missing predators at Cliffside Asylum. After the two witness Lionheart consulting about the predators’ condition, the pair escape with the evidence, and the police swarm the area, arresting Lionheart. Bellwether is sworn in as the new Mayor. However, during a press conference, Judy suggests a biological connection between savaged animals and predators, hurting Nick, who angrily walks out. Fear against predators spreads across Zootopia, protests spawn, and a guilt-ridden Judy resigns. She goes back home to help her parents sell their produce but while speaking to Gideon she realizes that “night howlers” are flowers that have a severe psychotropic effect on mammals. Judy returns to Zootopia, reconciles with Nick, and locates Weaselton, who confesses that the “onions” he had been collecting were night howler bulbs for a ram named Doug. The pair find Doug and his team of sheep at a secret laboratory creating a night howler serum which he has been injecting into predators via a dart gun.

Judy and Nick race to the ZPD with the evidence, but Bellwether (the mastermind behind this operation) intercepts them, attempting to take the evidence with her men. Bellwether shoots a dart at Nick, who seemingly becomes savage and attacks Judy, but it turns out the pair were acting, having swapped out the serum for blueberries, and recorded Bellwether’s confession. With enough evidence, the ZPD arrest Bellwether and her accomplices for their crimes. Upon being interviewed, Lionheart denies any knowledge of Bellwether’s plot, but asserts he imprisoned the savaged predators to protect the city. Later, Judy is reinstated into the ZPD, the savaged mammals, including Otterton and Manchas, are cured by an antidote, and Nick joins the ZPD as the first fox police officer and Judy’s partner.

Good solid fun and total enjoyment with a good story and theme. I enjoyed that a lot. 9 outta 10!