This is actually a film where a person can get dumber after watching it.

This film is all over the place.

Zootopia tries to hide its nonsensical message and cliches behind political correctness.

Predator hunting prey is a part of nature. To say such is not discriminatory to predators. Saying that foxes hunt rabbits isn't "Foxist". Yet the film treats categorizing animals as some sort of discrimination akin to people discriminating against one another based on nationality. They're not the same thing. You can't compare the two. The writers basically got both discrimination and science wrong in this film.

The film itself doesn't stand out in any particular way. All the good/funny bits were shown in the trailers, the cliched recording device was used three times (that's got to be a record), and they invented a mcguffin magic plant that turns animals into savages just to have a politically correct ending. The dialogue and characters were passable but nothing special.

It would have been an average film if they just stuck to the "You can be anything you want to be" theme, but they had to try to reach for something more, even if it made no sense.

Zootopia is another of what I term to be "Up wannabes". After Up, a movie aimed primarily towards kids, also became beloved by adults (and more importantly, won Oscars) because of its insightful and endearing themes, every studio has been trying to churn out animations that have a grown-up message tacked on. Every single time, it ends up a mess because the mature themes just don't fit with the rest of the movie. Zootopia is even worse because the message doesn't even make sense.

This is actually a film where a person can get dumber after watching it.