Grand Forks Flix: Are these new releases a no, go, or just so-so?

Grand Forks Flix: Are these new releases a no, go, or just so-so?

Rabbit police officer Judy Hopps and con artist fox Nick Wilde work together in “Zootopia.” Image courtesy of disney.com

While “Zootopia” isn’t one of Disney’s famous princess movies — and probably won’t make as much money as one of their princess movies — it’s still good, and you won’t have to worry about it getting as popular or annoying as “Frozen.”

The story of “Zootopia” is about a rabbit cop and a con artist fox who team up to solve a series of disappearances in their animal society (to go too in-depth would spoil the ending). The moral of the movie is one we’ve all heard before: Not to judge someone based on what they are or what they look like.

The movie’s animal society has certain groups of animals who are judged based on their species, and the main characters have to address their own prejudices to solve the case. Adults will realize the movie is addressing things like racism, sexism and homophobia, while kids will just see that it’s bad to dislike someone because they’re  different.

It’s Disney, so of course the animation is gorgeous and it’s better quality than 90 percent of any other family movies that will come out this year, so you should go see it.

If you don’t have a kid to bring with you as an excuse, you should just go in a furry costume because apparently this movie is a big hit in that community. If you don’t know what a furry is you should consider yourself lucky.

Gods of Egypt: No

It’s tradition for all “Game of Thrones” actors to star in at least one forgettable crappy movie. Peter Dinklage had “Pixels,” Emilia Clarke had “Terminator Genisys,” Kit Harrington had “Silent Hill Revelations,” Natalie Dormer had “The Forest” and now Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has “Gods of Egypt.”

I’m well known for my love of terrible movies, but I like terrible movies that are so bad they’re funny, not so bad that they’re boring. “Gods of Egypt” leans more toward the boring side with the occasional funny moment.

The plot of this movie is that a bunch of white people play ancient Egyptians and their world has special effects that look like a Playstation 2 game. There’s this white kid who teams up with Jaime Lannister to fight another Egyptian god and the two of them go on a Playstation 2 graphics adventure.

Gerard Butler is there to rip-off his role from “300,” and I think I spotted about three black people in this movie that’s supposed to be about the mythology of an African country. You can rest easy knowing this movie is currently the first box office flop of 2016.

Alisabeth Otto is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]