Zootopia 2

1. Copgranda Continues 2. Animation Stalls 3. The journey is fun **Copraganda Continues *Judy Hops and Nick Wilde explicitly betray and go against the cop agenda approximately 5 minutes into the movie. Woo! They are actively defying orders, leaving society standards emotionally and physically, and questioning the establishment they belong to. Woo*! Judy's former colleagues and coworkers are told to KILL HER (A TENSE MOVIE MOMENT) a clear switch in the narrative of cops are my friends. All of that to happen for Judy to remain on the police force and continue praising the same establishments that minutes ago was ok with killing her. Imagine working with someone who tried killing you a week ago??? The better storyline was one where she and Nick continue to defy the expectation from the establishment and leave the force to become private investigators. A way to say, you can validate your own dreams and a place that leaves them with their own autonomy with better sequels (which we will get till 2045) **Animation Stalls **Ok so one thing that I loved about Zootopia was the creative approach to the world building. We got to see the jungle lands, mini mouse city, and general custom animal builds in the first movie. The animal kingdom is so large that you can literally keep exploring niche upon niche environment making clever and fun creations along the way. What did we get in this movie? A bizarre marsh land. With animals that were aquatic but definitely not marsh creatures. We got one dolphin and several sea lions/walruses. I have a feeling that the animators were told we want a marsh, design it and then realized the mamal association to marshes were low. So we ended up with what is a clear setup to some sort of Disney ride that will be unveiled in 2031. The whole world just kept feeling like copy and paste repeat of animal characters. If it was a creature we had seen before we were going to get 100 copies of them. If it was a new animal we would get 2 seconds of them. The tundra land was literally such a cop out to actually develop a city. (Where were the moose/elk/bunnies/other linxes/etc). It was just white snow? No need to show the city when we can just make a burning man in the desert that leads to a white desert. Give animators more time to tell the visual story that are trained to do. Let's make visual story telling more fun! **The Journey is Fun ** There were many woos. The story overall of a secret gentrified neighborhood is well developed. Touching and honest. I was laughing and generally entertained but I kept thinking that the next scene was going to be more fun with something new and unexpected. Overall it's a kids movie and I think kids are going to have fun. We were so close to having a true cross generational entertainment piece but we ended with sequel repeat villain twist, repeat animals, repeat copraganda