I have a real beef to deal with here. For the last 10 years, Disney had done nothing but make terrible movies over and over again. It has become pathological at this point. I grew up with their movies and loved them to the point where I would see a movie just because Disney made it. And the majority of the time, I would enjoy them. I also liked the huge back-catalog of movies, and there are still some I haven't seen.
My favorite movie of all time is Disney's "The Black Hole." And although my favorite animated film ("The Mouse and His Child") is not a Disney film, my second favorite ("Fluppy Dogs") actually is a Disney film, although a very obscure one. So I love Disney... but I also hate them. I hate modern Disney.
Almost ten years ago, "Zootopia" came out and genuinely made a lot of people excited. It was a brilliant film with an exciting presentation and premise. It had solid animation, and it was a new IP that really captured the hearts and imagination of everyone. It practically obsoleted "Robin Hood" as their signature "furry" film. When I saw it, I thought that it was going to lead to a new age of Disney, but it didn't. It was the exact opposite, in fact.
For ten horrible years, we got nothing but fake live-action remakes for their old IPs that absolutely trashed them. Nothing that came out of Disney was good. Even "Star Wars" was terrible. By now I had entirely given up, but I did bother going to see "Zootopia 2," and I even went to the theater and paid money to Disney to see it. And after seeing this movie... I hate Disney even more.
I don't hate them because "Zootopia 2" was bad; I hate them because it was one of the best movies I have ever seen and was damn better than the first. I hate Disney even more because this movie proves they could have been doing better the entire time, and just didn't.
This movie took everything that was the first film and built upon it in a way that can only be considered charming. For the first time in ten years, they actually bothered to give us something that we wanted and did a damn fine job of it. Ten years! Ten whole years had to go by before they did this! That's insane! What is wrong with them?!
I hope "Zootopia 2" makes a hell of a lot of money for them so they can finally see what the people actually want... but even if it does... they probably still won't get it. They are never going to get it. "Zootopia 2" is not the beginning of a new hopeful generation of Disney films; it is more likely to be another ten years of creative famine.
Oh, and... I do recommend this movie. I recommend it a lot actually. It was extremely good. I know this has not really been a good review. It was mostly a rant. I guess I can summarize it by saying that it is a very well-made furry cop movie that is more open to lethality than the first film was. It is a hard-hitting narrative with lots of action and comedy. Great callbacks to the original film, while still adding a lot of new content, such as reptiles. I loved it, and because I loved it... I hate Disney more than ever.
This blog was written on December 2, 2025.
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To create something amazing is almost impossible. To do it twice is thrice as difficult. To make something even more amazing is not almost but actually impossible...yet it happened.
ReplyDeleteI just can't imagine them keeping this up for any amount of time.
DeleteI had a similar reaction when I watched Coco. Though being a Pixar film, it was released by Disney. It reminded me of the best from both of them.
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