Talk:Zootopia/@comment-27639475-20160124045454/@comment-1879108-20160125060219

I can think of a couple of reasons for that:

Disney didn't put that much effort in the leads' relationship development until recently. In the early days, it was just love at first sight, they talked or sang together a bit and then they lived happily ever after. In these years, we're getting couples that interact more and learn from each other before hooking up, like Tiana and Naveen, Rapunzel and Flynn and now Judy and Nick. Judy and Nick's relationship stands out because in this case, it's not just a villain that stands in their way, it's an entire society filled with racism and prejudice.Their species are supposed to hate each other, Nick hated preys for rejecting him before meeting Judy and Judy is just starting to trust the foxes her family warned her about. Those are factors that complicate their relationship, and them just being friends must be seeing as an outrage by society, now imagine potential lovers.

The other reason is, well, is there anything in this film that really stands out besides Nick and Judy's relationship? The story is a buddy cop tale with nothing really new and the rest of the cast aren't really interesting, aside that many of them act like total jerks. The setting is pretty cool, but it's not something you can use to its full potential in a movie. So the thing that's left remarkable is the chemistry of the two leads, which is great even if the creators deny they are romantic.