This one picks up the week after the first movie. Nick is on the police force now, partnered with Judy. They're kind of a publicity stunt but they're still working together.
This story is about reptiles. We know there's no reptiles in Zootopia. They said so in the first movie. But there are and this is about what happened to them. There's also a side plot for stirring up discontent between prey and predator animals.
This is a buddy-cop movie and follows it down the line. The partners, the problems, the sidekicks. All of it. It's well done and if you like the format of movie, you'll like this one.
The new characters are all fun and I hope that if there's a third movie (yeah right, like there won't be) that they continue to have roles. Even the side characters should stick around, if they can afford the actors who provided the voices.
There's any number of reviews out there that go into the social dynamics this movie covers so I won't bother with that. There's a lot of them and I don't feel like detailing them this long after seeing the movie. Like the Wicked movies it's on theme with turning people against each other so the more powerful people can do whatever they like. I'm not surprised this theme is heavy this year, to be honest.
The movie gap between the first and second is nine years but the movie itself really does have the feeling of continuing right where it left off. The continuity on that is great and since I watched the first one the week before seeing this one it really stood out for me.
The movie hints at the other missing genus - birds - in a little bit at the end of the movie. It's not exactly a subtle thing either. It's the plot of the entirely expected third movie.
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