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Following the end of their case, rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her partner fox Nick Wilde try to bust a smuggler ring, but this ends in a chase and chaos, so their superior, police chief Bogo, sends them to couples therapy. This is too boring for Judy, so she takes on a next assignment on her own: a snake assaults the ancestor of Zootopia's founder, Milton Lynxley, at a dinner party, claiming he framed his family, while the proof is allegedly in the diary of Milton's grandfather. Judy uncharacteristically trusts the snake, thereby becoming a fugitive since Milton controls Zootopia's mayor, and orders the police to arrest anyone aiding the snake. Nick is arrested, but manages to escape from prison with beaver Maplestick. Judy manages to uncover a conspiracy showing Zootopia was actually founded by the snake's forefathers, who were cast out by the Lynxleys, and teams up back with Nick.
In this much faster, but also much weaker and less careful sequel to the wonderful "Zootopia", filmed nine years later, everything is done nominally right, and yet, everything seems so schematic and mechanical, almost as if a ChatGPT on autopilot wrote the story. Anthropomorphic rabbit Judy Hopps, which was such a fascinating character in the first film, seems to be done with less care this time around, not managing to come to full expression. "Zootopia 2" suffers from the often problem of modern movies: its rushed, frenetic fast pacing seems to be a distraction for a lack of inspiration. Nontheless, it is a good movie, with solid jokes, a one that relies more on detective-investigation genre this time around. Some jokes do manage to ignite on a more authentic level: for instance, when fox Nick cynically complains to Judy about their relationship: "Being on the same page means always being on your page". In another brilliant one, a dik-dik animal gets stuck in a tuba, so Judy's dad calls to ask her to find him that "dik-dik pic". The rest is more standard, filled with chase sequences, but they do not stand out from a mass of other chase sequences of other movies. However, it tackles some serious themes, including gentrification and erasure of the indigenous population by colonizers, but also the problem of diversity in a relationship, since Judy and Nick are sometimes too different to work as a couple. This culminates in a beautiful, unexpectedly emotional confession of their feelings in the finale, when they make up. In a time when everything seems hopeless since nothing seems to change the world towards better, the scene where Judy concludes that a good deed at least matters to one person is nice. Though it is indicative that for a comedy, this movie's dramatic moments are consistently more memorable and effective than its comical moments.
Grade:++
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