Here I am, sitting in my hotel room at  nordicfuzzcon and looking back at yesterday's screening for the convention. We didn't just show up as a group there, we didn't just rent "a room" there, we did actually rent the whole (small but still) cinema which is normally closed on Thursdays!

Quite a large number of attendees also went there in fursuit - as can be seen here: https://twitter.com/atkelar/status/.....05194466004992

TL;DR result first: I loved the movie and am going to watch it again sometime soon back in Vienna!

I'm trying not to mention any details here beyond what's been in the trailers already.

The good part is, that the story does have some (minor) surprises in it and it actually makes sense once you have accepted the universe the film is playing in. No magic or stuff, just - as advertised - a world where animals (mammals) took the place of the humans in a modern world. There are some species specific jokes in there of course.

What really surprised me, is that the main characters have more depth to them than some people on my twitter timeline gave them credit for. Nick *is* a sly fox trickster and Judy is a scared bunny... but that's just the surface that made it into the trailers.

Now to the not so good part: it seems that Zootopia-mania-tropolis-whatever doesn't only have a new name in every location it's shown, but also some more or less individualized conetent. Around here we had the English version with subtitles and yet they called the city "Zootropolis". I still have no idea how a city that lends it's name to the movie title can be called "Zoomania" in German. Blergh. I hope I get to see an ORIGINAL (i.e. Hollywood US) verson when I get to buy the BD version.
This decision is going to cause so much confusion all around the globe and social network friendships when talking about the movie, it's not even funny anymore :(

So: Go see Zotopiamaniatropolistown!