Film Review - Zootopia 2 (2025)

Zootopia 2 is the sequel to the 2016 Disney animated film Zootopia and sees Judy Hopps (Jennifer Goodwin) and Nick (Jason Bateman) on the pursuit of a wild snake in their city (Ke Huy Quan) as he seeks a secret book that might hold the key to helping his family but like in the first film the case Judy and Nick go on has more to it than meets the eye.

Zootopia 2 is terrific fun, easily as good as the first film and well worth the wait, Jared Bush’s script feels like its written by someone who actually understands how Disney Animation should work, there are plenty of great gags in here as well as a compelling story and a decent enough villain, the gags in particular I enjoyed spotting and made me laugh more than once while the overall mystery is lighter in tone than the case in the first film but its just as fun and enjoyable.

The world building here is also excellent, Zootropolis feels like a living breathing world that you could get lost in and its so much fun to just enjoy the city streets and the various animals going about their business and having various roles in that society I think is a testament to the designers both production and character in that they make it work so well.

The cast is also good fun, Goodwin and Bateman play off each other very well and their chemistry is good also, Idris Elba is a lot of fun as the police chief who like most movie police chiefs is constantly grumpy but its still fun to watch while Ke Huy Quan is okay as the Snake but he tends to do his usual panic merchant type role after a while which bothered me a little.

As for the villains well their okay but I really miss the good old days of great Disney villains like Scar or Frollo or Hades or Jafar, too many of the Disney villains are trying to copy Gaston from Beauty and the Beast in that their evil but there’s a reason why their evil and that’s gotten so boring now I want a return to the despicable rogues of old like the ones I mention above along with Captain Hook or Cruella De Vil bring them back please.

And so that was Zootopia 2 and it is great fun but I wish it had a better villain, 4 out of 5.