{"id":2177978,"date":"2025-11-26T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2177978"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:09:11","slug":"zootopia-2-review-disneys-animal-kingdom-is-back-in-funny-but-lesser-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zootopia-2-review-disneys-animal-kingdom-is-back-in-funny-but-lesser-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zootopia 2&#8217; review: Disney&#8217;s animal kingdom is back in funny, but lesser sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2Fnewspress-collage-qreqncges-1764174815367.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261764156887\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie 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Rated PG (rude humor, action, violence). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cZootopia\u201d has finally crawled out of hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nine long years since Disney\u2019s first animal metropolis movie about the unlikely buddy cop duo of a fox and rabbit hit theaters back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The original fans are now dissecting frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Yet clever-as-ever \u201cZooptopia 2\u201d doesn\u2019t feel at all like three presidents have held office between the two films. It glides in gracefully as a gazelle.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say the sequel, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, is the glorious revelation<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/03\/03\/disneys-zootopia-is-as-good-as-the-best-pixar-movies\/\"> that the last movie was<\/a>. Hardly an \u201cElephant Strikes Back.\u201d It\u2019s more along the lines of a perfectly enjoyable TV police procedural; the season finale of \u201cClaw and Order.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We\u2019ve met everybody and gotten a guided tour of town. Now it\u2019s down to business.<\/p>\n<p>These days Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin), Zootopia\u2019s first-ever bunny cop, and her partner Nick (Jason Bateman), a cavalier fox who lives up to his sneaky species\u2019 reputation, are pretty much Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in \u201cRush Hour\u201d \u2014 celebrated but annoying to their coworkers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nick (Jason Bateman) and Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) are back in \u201cZootopia 2.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the city\u2019s centennial festivities, the sloppy duo gets accosted by a snake aptly named Gary De\u2019Snake (Key Huy Quan).<\/p>\n<p>In an amusing casting move, Quan, who got his start as little Short Round in \u201cIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,\u201d is now playing Indy\u2019s least favorite creature.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0Mr. Nice Guy\u00a0tries to give those scary, scaly noodles an image rehab.The actor makes his fanged, slimy, limbless viper seem downright cuddly. Although I wasn\u2019t convinced by his sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnakes aren\u2019t the bad guys,\u201d he announces. \u201cWe never hurt anyone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tell that to Anaconda and the Snakes on the Plane.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gary (Ke Huy Quan) announced that snakes are misunderstood creatures. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Apparently, reptiles in Zootopia are confined to ghettos and drown their sorrows at speakeasies \u2014 two things that aren\u2019t easy to speak to your kids about.<\/p>\n<p>Slithering types, we learn, actually invented the groundbreaking technology that allows this unique land to control the weather to suit the\u00a0entire\u00a0animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>But an influential family of conniving cats, the Lynxleys, took credit and banished the poor pythons underground a la St. Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>So, Nick and Judy set out through deserts,\u00a0tundra and an outdoor festival called Burning Mammal to right a historical wrong.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nick and Judy go on am mission to right a historical wrong. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s best and most consistent about \u201c2\u201d is how flippin\u2019 funny it is.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Long Island-sounding\u00a0character taunting Nick invokes an old viral song: \u201cWhat does the fox say? You suck!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a version of Hannibal Lecter from \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d portrayed as an actual lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Another new addition is a pair of striped meatheads on the force called the Ze-bros. And a supervisor calmly tells a hog officer, \u201cThat\u2019ll do, pig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flash the hilarious sloth is back,\u00a0too,\u00a0as is Mr. Big, the little rodent Don Corleone.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Favorite characters from the first film, such as Flash the sloth, are here again. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was one beast I\u2019d like to muzzle, though.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s an obnoxious\u00a0podcaster\u00a0named\u00a0Nibbles Maplestick (Fortune Feimster), a beaver who chomps through everyone with her loud personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But one man\u2019s annoyance is some kid\u2019s Christmas list.<\/p>\n<p>And Goodwin and Bateman\u2019s Judy and Nick still have great chemistry nearly a decade on.\u00a0Maybe a little\u00a0too much. It\u2019s kinda weird to see a CGI fox and rabbit\u00a0have such\u00a0will-they-won\u2019t-they tension.<\/p>\n<p>But fear not. The Disney movie\u2019s still\u00a0rated\u00a0PG. They don\u2019t do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review ZOOTOPIA 2 Running time: 108 minutes. Rated PG (rude humor, action, violence). In theaters. \u201cZootopia\u201d has finally crawled out of hibernation. It\u2019s been nine long years since Disney\u2019s first animal metropolis movie about the unlikely buddy cop duo of a fox and rabbit hit theaters back in 2016. 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