Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but I have serious doubts that Zootopia 2 will celebrate diversity the way the original movie did in 2016. It was a different social landscape back then, and the way Disney has frequently bent itself backwards not to offend the bigots in the White House tells me it could be a bland, forgettable mess. I hope that’s not the case because the original was truly something special that taught younger audiences a valuable lesson about respecting those who are different from them. The sequel should keep that message alive, not bury it.
Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman return to voice police bunny Judy Hopps and sly fox Nick Wilde, respectively. Jared Bush, a co-writer on the previous film, takes over as co-director alongside the returning Byron Howard. Bush wrote the screenplay.
Other voices in the sequel are Ke Huy Quan as Gary De’Snake, the snake, Fortune Feimster as Nibbles the beaver, Shakira as Gazelle the gazelle, and Quinta Brunson as Dr. Fuzzby the quokka. Also in the voice cast are Idris Elba, Jean Reno, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Jenny Slate, Alan Tudyk, Leah Latham, Josh Dallas, Tommy Chong, Mark Rhino Smith, and Raymond Persi.
SYNOPSIS: In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia 2,” detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.
Zootopia 2 opens in theaters on November 26th.
