Zootopia 2 (2025)

 

Zootopia 2 (2025)

8/10

 

Starring the voices of

Ginnifer Goodwin

Jason Bateman

Ke Huy Quan

Fortune Feimster

 

Directed by: Jared Bush and Byron Howard

 

Zootopia 2 is fun, it has a lot of mushy mushy touchy feelings in the end which kinda dragged for way too long, but it was fun and it was so amazing to see Flash the sloth again. It is not as good as part 1, but it is good enough that I will watch a part 3 if it drops.

So the Hopps energy is back. This Disney animated sequel does not play around, right from the start the jokes start flying in with many references to old films for the adults to laugh at and enough color and action to keep the kids entertained. There are no words to describe how it feels to see these two working together again in this wonderful animated return to the world of Zootopia, and you can see that Disney kept the animation just as fluid as the first while introducing new characters with new voice actors to keep the juice fresh, so it was like I never left.

It was nice to have Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman back as Hopps and Nick, both give fantastic voice acting performances that make you forget you are watching an animation and they pull you into this world of anthropomorphic animals until you feel like you are witnessing everything from the passenger’s seat.

This is Zootopia 2, a sequel to the 2016 classic in my books, and we have the return of the buddy cop duo Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. As you would expect the two do not start the movie sitting down, no, we have already done that in the first part and their story continues from where the first one stops.

Zootopia 2 sees former con-artist and rabbit-cop duo Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde working together in the ZPD, but their partnership is on rocky ground as they are sent to a partner training program, and of course they do not finish the training before they jump on their next case. The case revolves around the arrival of a mysterious reptile, Gary De'Snake, who is the first snake seen in Zootopia in over a century.

Judy puts together that the arrival of the snake has something to do with a priceless old journal belonging to the founding Lynxley family, so she convinces Nick to join her undercover at the event, and sure enough Gary appears and steals the journal. But the two are not praised or celebrated for uncovering this because during their encounter with Gary the chief gets injured, and they end up as the prime suspects.

Now the two must unravel a dangerous conspiracy involving family secrets, a secret reptile community, and clear their name while learning to trust each other again. The character dynamics and how they play off each other still give off that predictable rookie cop duo and angry chief vibe we all know, and how they get on the reptile case lines up with the same detective duo stories we have seen before, but the fun here is how these characters handle these predictable situations.

So fair warning, some aspects are predictable, and do I recommend you see this, yes because I will be doing a rewatch as well.