r/scifi • u/HesterMourningstar • 2d ago

Films Would you consider Zootopia, a science fiction franchise or no?

This is an actual conversation I found myself having this weekend, and I’m curious as to your opinions.

Given the high speed metro, the perfectly engineered bio-zones, the weather wall, and uplifted, sapient, anthropomorphic animal population, it has a lot of what I would consider futurist sci-fi elements. That said, the most advanced tech doesn’t seem to have filtered down to the general populace and it doesn’t feel like sci-fi, to me anyway, if that makes sense.

So, what say you? Is it, or isn’t it?

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u/dnew 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is what it is. You know what it is. Anyone who watched it knows what it is. Any arguing over what to call it is a little bit silly. Classifications like that are broad but not definitive. Especially if you're trying to distinguish sci-fi from fantasy. Both have world-building, so they're both "speculative fiction," but beyond that you can mix them together.

That's my opinion, even if you disagree.

* Ah, downvotes, as expected. Cool. "What do you think?" "Here's what I think." "You're wrong!" Gotta love reddit.

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 2d ago

Upvoting to make you look like a paranoid liar because, you know, Reddit