Zootopia 2 2025
I really enjoyed the first Zootopia, so I was looking forward to a sequel, but also apprehensive that they might screw it up. However, this sequel delivers. The first movie benefitted by being able to show this amazing world for animals and introduce a bunch of great characters. The challenge for a sequel is taking all of that as a given and still finding sparks of originality and good story to tell. Fortunately, because it essentially a movie about undercover cops investigating a crime, there are plenty of stories to tell. It felt a little off at the beginning that the rabbit and fox characters would be in the police chief's doghouse so soon after getting medals for their work in the first movie, which happened within a few weeks or months of this movie taking place. So that felt forced, but it serves the plot, so okay. These two characters are still fun, play off of each other well, and most of the old characters return in some way, plus some new ones. There are some good twists and turns, and just when I was getting a little tired of it and thought they were going to milk the movie for another big action sequence, they back off, which makes me feel they got everything just right. There are also a lot of fun homages to classic movies that hopefully little kids have not seen, so grown ups will enjoy that. While not as fresh and new as the first movie, I still don't mind giving this movie an A.
Written: 09 Dec 2025