{"id":14521,"date":"2025-11-26T02:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:32:35","slug":"review-zootopia-2-movie-review-disneys-formulaic-animated-sequel-delights-with-visual-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14521","title":{"rendered":"Review | Zootopia 2 movie review: Disney\u2019s formulaic animated sequel delights with visual wit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/26\/a9acd04d-4c3c-4858-8e7c-8ed21b2b356f_77580e66.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">3.5\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">It would be fair to say that <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Zootopia<\/em><\/span> was a surprise hit. The 2016 Walt Disney animation grossed over US$1 billion at the box office and won an Academy Award, making stars of its animal protagonists \u2013 the rabbit police officer Judy Hopps and the con-artist fox Nick Wilde.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now they\u2019re back for <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Zootopia 2<\/em>, a fun, if formulaic, follow-up that plunges us back into this urban jungle populated solely by animals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now partners at the ZPD, Nick (voiced by Jason Bateman) and Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) are on thin ice with Chief Bogo (Idris Elba) after wrecking half the city in pursuit of a smuggler.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But that doesn\u2019t stop them from becoming entangled in a conspiracy involving a family of lynxes, a pit viper with a cause, and the very origins of Zootopia, as it becomes clear not everything is harmonious in this animal paradise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3334029\/zootopia-2-movie-review-disneys-formulaic-animated-sequel-delights-visual-wit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.5\/5 stars It would be fair to say that Zootopia was a surprise hit. The 2016 Walt Disney animation grossed over US$1 billion at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1669,7008,3453,10806,1543,28,2506,1790,759,10805],"class_list":["post-14521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-animated","tag-delights","tag-disneys","tag-formulaic","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-sequel","tag-visual","tag-wit","tag-zootopia","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}