So last weekend I did watch Zootopia 2 and this movie left me with a lot of... "things" up my mind. And despite not usually doing movie reviews I think this is still the best place to share my mind about this movie.
First of all this review will have spoilers, so if you still wanna watch the movie yourself better come back later or skip to the last part of this review, where I´ll give a small summary.
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Let´s start with something positive here. The world building is easily on the same level like in the first movie. Especially the new swamp area is really interesting to see and almost wished to see more of. We also see more of Sahara Square and Tundra Town. Sadly nothing new for the rainforest part of Zootopia.
Also credit for most of the newly intreduced characters. Almost all of keep the standard of the first movie. The new cop teams opposite Judy and Nick are fun to watch and I honestly wouldn´t mind seeing more of them. The new major of the town first looked like a silly, one-time joke, but really grew on me the more often I saw him.
The character I dislike the most is Nibbles the beaver. She´s just the newest version of the quirky, almost crazy side-kick, who most of the time almost crosses the line of annoying. While she plays her role alright when we first meet her in the movie, I really don´t get, why she has to stay around for the big final of the movie. Once she helped Nick break out of prison, she doesn´t really has anything to do, but still sticks around and like I said before is pretty much more annoying then funny.
A little note to Gary the snake. While I don´t hate him and he plays his role well for the movie, I think the writers overdid it a bit with his "goody-good-shoes" stick. I´m honestly happy he didn´t turn out to be the silly goofball that nobody liked (like Olaf from Frozen), how the trailers first made him look, but I sure would have minded if they gave him a bit more edge in the movie instead of simply making him snake Jesus, who always only see´s the good in everything and everyone and never gives up. But in total he´s still a good character.
What honestly botters me the most is the clear downgrade of Nick in this movie. While in the first movie they only had success because he and Judy worked together as a combination of street smarts and good, honest detectiv work, in the second movie Nick is pretty much downgraded to the punching bag of most other characters and the comic relief. All the big discovery´s and break-throughs in the case are made by Judy and the new characters with the only time Nick really helping is near the end, when he helps saving Judy´s life and even that is followed like 5 seconds later by her saving his life.
Over all I sadly have to say the the writers are still Disneys biggest problem. It´s already a bit disappointing that after the first movie´s theme was based around racism, the second movie pretty much does the same, only replacing meat vs plan eaters with mammals vs reptiles. The overall dynamic between Nick and Judy isn´t as good as in the first movie too. Most of the times especially in the middle part of the movie it feels more like Judy is forcing Nick into an adventure he doesn´t wanna be a part of without any regards of his feelings.
And as a little side note for all the shippers of Judy and Nick out there. I sadly have to tell you that this movie gave zero hints that there is anything growing between those other then a work partner relationship. So better enjoy the fake family sketch Judy and Nick do at the very beginning of the movie, because that´s as close of them starting a family as your going to get so far.
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In total Zootopia isn´t a bad movie, but it can´t keep the high standard the first movie set. To make that happen Disney needs better writers and the willingsness to do something risky and not remaining the the safe slope category out of fear to offend somebody. Zootopia 2 is a perfectly fine movie, which will probably end up making Disney a ton of money, but I´m affraid a 3rd and 4th movie (let´s not kid ourselfs, those movies will happen) could rather quickly end up in the bad sequel category.
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