‘Zootopia 2’ Is Another Smart Animated Movie With Something To Say
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Like the original, it proves that animated films can tackle serious themes without sacrificing humor.
I’m usually not one to root for sequels when the original movie stands well enough on its own. But with an inventive franchise like “Zootopia,” which earned critical acclaim (and an Oscar) for turning a clever story about animated mammals into a meaningful message about racism and prejudice, I think we can make an exception.
Especially when its sequel has just as much, if not more, to say about a flawed society at a time when a lot of films are not brave enough to call out our own so plainly.
“Zootopia 2,” a delightful follow-up to the 2016 original, picks up just a week after the events of the first film. It reunites our favorite buddy-cop bunny-fox duo, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) — the former criminal now part of the Zootopia police force — as they take on a new conspiracy case that digs into the real history of Zootopia.
Not the one that many have been led to believe by the powerful Lynxley family, whose patriarch, Ebenezer Lynxley, is credited for creating the “weather walls” that allow the city’s mammals — sans all the reptiles that were banished after a deadly “snake attack” 100 years ago — and their various climates to coexist.
But is he the true inventor?
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