Zootopia brings timely message of inclusiveness and empowerment

Just when it was looking like animated animal movies had run out of anything original to say, along comes the smartly amusing, crisply relevant Zootopia to handily demonstrate there's still plenty of bite left in the anthropomorphic CG menagerie.

Boasting a pitch-perfect voice cast led by Ginnifer Goodwin as a righteous rural rabbit who becomes the first cotton-tailed police recruit in the mammal-centric city of "Zootopia", the 3-D caper expertly combines keen wit with a gentle, and very timely, message of inclusiveness and empowerment.

The engaging result should easily appeal to all creatures great and small, giving this premium Walt Disney Animation Studios effort is a paw up on spring break entertainment, not to mention the summer arrival of Universal's animated The Secret Life of Pets.