Zootopia 2
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| Directed by | |
| Written by | Jared Bush |
| Produced by | Yvett Merino |
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| Edited by | Jeremy Milton |
| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures[a] |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150 million[2] |
| Box office | $1.87 billion[3] |
Zootopia 2 (titled Zootropolis 2 in some markets)[b] is a 2025 American animated buddy cop comedy film directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard and written by Bush. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, it is the sequel to Zootopia (2016) and stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba, Alan Tudyk, Nate Torrence, Don Lake, Bonnie Hunt and Jenny Slate reprising their roles from the first film, with Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson, Macaulay Culkin, Brenda Song, and Danny Trejo joining the cast. The film follows Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde as they pursue a pit viper named Gary De'Snake across Zootopia and try to clear their names after being framed.
Zootopia 2 premiered at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on November 13, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 26. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $1.87 billion worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time, the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2025. It won Best Animated Feature at the 79th British Academy Film Awards and was nominated in the same category at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards (in addition to Cinematic and Box Office Achievement), the 31st Critics' Choice Awards and the 98th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. A sequel is in development.
Plot
A week after Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde become partners in the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD),[c] their clashing personalities start to complicate their work. Chief Bogo threatens to separate them unless they resolve their differences. During a raid on a smuggling ring, Judy finds a piece of snake skin, although snakes have not been seen in Zootopia for a century. Undeterred, she suspects that a snake may appear at the Zootennial Gala, an event hosted by Milton Lynxley, whose grandfather Ebenezer founded Zootopia, to celebrate its centennial anniversary.
While infiltrating the Gala with Nick, Judy befriends Pawbert, the youngest son and black sheep of the Lynxley family. Meanwhile, a hooded creature crashes the party and reveals himself as a pit viper. He kidnaps Milton and uses his eye to unlock a digitally locked glass case containing an old journal that documents the creation of the weather walls that regulate Zootopia's climate zones.
Judy corners the viper, who confesses the journal contains evidence to exonerate his family. Seeking to preserve his family's reputation, Milton demands to have the journal burned and the viper killed, but Judy refuses, setting the room ablaze. When ZPD Captain Hoggbottom arrives after the viper accidentally bites Bogo, the Lynxleys frame Judy and Nick for the crime, forcing them to escape with the journal whilst an unknown motorcyclist retrieves the viper. Afterwards, Milton orders former actor and newly elected Mayor Brian Winddancer, whom Milton secretly controls, to retrieve the journal and apprehend Judy, Nick, and the viper.
Now fugitives, Judy and Nick meet Nibbles Maplestick, a conspiracy theorist beaver who leads them to Marsh Market, a secluded area of Zootopia where reptiles hide. There, a basilisk named Jesús explains that the reptiles' original district was buried during the construction of Zootopia's arctic district, Tundratown, which is expected to expand to Marsh Market. The ZPD, led by Hoggbottom, finds Judy and Nick, who narrowly escape, but the viper reappears, retrieves the journal, and escapes through a water tunnel. As they attempt to locate the viper, Judy and Nick climb to reach an abandoned lodge, leading to an argument that ends with their shared carrot pen breaking.
Inside, Judy discovers that reptiles once lived peacefully in Zootopia. The ZPD finds them and arrests Nick, but the viper, who introduces himself as Gary De'Snake, and his motorcyclist partner, revealed to be Pawbert, rescue Judy, explaining that Gary's great-grandmother Agnes was not only the original author of the journal, but also the true founder of Zootopia. Her greedy investor Ebenezer plagiarized her engineering work on the weather walls and later framed her for murdering his tortoise maid, who tried to stop him from burning the original patent. The maid's death subsequently turned the general populace against reptiles, eventually leading to their exile from Zootopia.
Aided by Nibbles, whom the ZPD also arrested, Nick escapes from prison, while accidentally releasing many prisoners, and locates Judy at the Desert-Tundratown weather wall, where she, Gary, and Pawbert activate an old clock tower to find the buried reptile district, deducing that the patent is hidden in Agnes' house. However, Pawbert injects Judy with snake venom, throws Gary out in the snow, and steals the antivenom, revealing he intends to destroy the patent and earn his family's respect and approval. Arriving at the wall, Nick fights Pawbert for the antivenom and manages to throw it to Gary, who cures Judy. After emotionally reconciling with each other, Judy and Nick, accompanied by Gary and Nibbles, follow Pawbert to Lynxley Manor, where they subdue him while Winddancer takes out Milton and his other children. They then find both Agnes' house and the patent, but Pawbert reappears and attempts to destroy it, before being knocked out by Hoggbottom.
With their crimes exposed, the Lynxleys are arrested and Agnes is credited as Zootopia's true founder. Judy and Nick are exonerated, Bogo recovers, the Tundratown expansion to Marsh Market is scrapped and Reptile Ravine is thawed, allowing for reptiles to be fully reintegrated back into Zootopia. Gary reunites with his family, and Nick gifts Judy the newly repaired carrot pen before they begin tracking down the escaped convicts Nick accidentally released earlier, starting with Dawn Bellwether.
Voice cast
- Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps,[4] a young optimistic rabbit and the first rabbit officer of the Zootopia Police Department (ZPD)
- Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde,[5] a sly red fox and a former con artist who later joined the Zootopia Police Department as their first fox officer
- Ke Huy Quan as Gary De'Snake, a pit viper[6] being pursued by Judy and Nick
- Fortune Feimster as Nibbles Maplestick, a beaver podcast host and conspiracy theorist
- Andy Samberg as Pawbert,[‡ 1] an awkward Canada lynx who is the youngest son of the powerful Lynxley family where he is considered the runt
- David Strathairn as Milton Lynxley,[‡ 1] Pawbert, Cattrick and Kitty's father and the ruthless and cruel oligarch patriarch of the Lynxley family
- Idris Elba as Chief Bogo,[7] the African buffalo chief of police of the Zootopia Police Department
- Shakira as Gazelle,[‡ 2] a Thomson's gazelle who is a famous pop music star
- Patrick Warburton as Brian Winddancer,[‡ 3] a Clydesdale horse who is a former action hero actor and the current Mayor of Zootopia who officially succeeds Leodore Lionheart
- Quinta Brunson as Dr. Fuzzby, a quokka psychotherapist of partners' therapy at the ZPD[8]
- Danny Trejo as Jesús,[‡ 4] a plumed basilisk who is a member of a hidden reptilian community at Marsh Market
- Nate Torrence as Benjamin Clawhauser,[‡ 5] a cheerful, overweight cheetah who works as the receptionist at the ZPD
- Bonnie Hunt as Bonnie Hopps,[5] Judy's mother
- Don Lake as Stu Hopps,[5] Judy's father
- Michelle Gomez as Captain Hoggbottom, a razorback who is the head of the ZPD's T.U.S.K. unit[‡ 6]
- David Fane as Truffler, Hoggbottom's razorback partner[9]
- David VanTuyle as Russ, a walrus
- Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i and Phil "CM Punk" Brooks as Gene Zebraxton and Gene Zebrowski, a plains zebra and zebra-painted Sorraia who make up the ZPD cop duo known as the "Zebros"[10]
- Stephanie Beatriz as Bloats, a hippopotamus ZPD cop[9]
- Wilmer Valderrama as Higgins, a hippopotamus ZPD cop.[9][11] He was previously voiced by Raymond S. Persi.
- Jean Reno as the following characters that he reprised in the French version:[12]
- Bûcheron, a markhor police officer
- Chèvre, a bighorn sheep police officer and Bûcheron's partner
- Alan Tudyk as:
- Duke Weaselton, a small-time least weasel crook[5]
- A French raccoon dog chef that oversees the catering at the Zootennial Gala[‡ 7]
- Molt Kohl, a green iguana at the Reptile Hangout who serves a drink to Buzz Shedley
- An unseen reporter
- Macaulay Culkin as Cattrick Lynxley,[‡ 1] the ambitious eldest son of Milton Lynxley
- Brenda Song as Kitty Lynxley,[‡ 1] the sharp-tongued daughter of Milton Lynxley
- John Leguizamo as Antony Snootley, a giant anteater smuggler[9]
- Tiny Lister as Finnick, a fennec fox and Nick's former partner in crime who acts undercover as a baby bunny. Lister, who died in 2020, reprises the role posthumously through unused recordings from the first film.[‡ 8]
- Maurice LaMarche as Mr. Big, an arctic shrew crime boss in Tundratown[12]
- Leah Latham as Fru Fru, an arctic shrew who is Mr. Big's daughter and Little Judith's mother[5]
- Raymond S. Persi as Flash Slothmore, a three-toed sloth and Nick's close friend, who works at the DMV[5]
- Jenny Slate as Dawn Bellwether, a sheep criminal mastermind and the disgraced former deputy mayor of Zootopia[5]
- Josh Dallas as the pig owner of the local flower shop from the first film whose car gets taken by Judy and Nick to chase Snootley[‡ 7]
- Auli'i Cravalho as the voice line from an anti-venom pen from Gary's pouch bag that he uses to cure Judy and Nibbles[9]
- Hewitt Bush as Armpit Pete, a leopard gecko
- Blake Slatkin as Baalake Lambkin, a sheep visitor at a barbershop[‡ 7]
- Nick DiGiovanni as Slick Di'Giguani, a desert iguana bartender[‡ 7]
- Tig Notaro as Big Tig, a grizzly bear prisoner[‡ 7]
- Sasha and Milan Piqué Mebarak as Binky and Binkston Hopps, Judy's younger brothers[13]
- Bob Iger as Bob Tiger, a tiger weatherman
- Daniel V. Graulau as Buzz Shedley, an agama patron of the Reptile Hangout
- Amanda Gorman as Deerdra Bambino, a lesser kudu news reporter who reports from the red carpet at the Zootennial Gala[‡ 6]
- Ed Sheeran as Ed Shearin,[14] a sheep visitor at a barbershop whose makeover gets affected by Judy and Nick's pursuit of Snootley
- Yvette Nicole Brown as:
- Tiffany Lonsdale as the unseen announcer of the Zootenial Gala
- George Pennacchio as George Purrnacleo, a lion news reporter at ZNN[‡ 7]
- Byron Howard as:
- Bucky Antlerson, one of Judy's greater kudu next-door neighbors
- Berthold Hufschmerz, a German-accented Saanen goat living near the Cliffs of Coppenhoofen
- Officer Joel, a white-tailed deer who is a police officer in the Zootopia Police Department
- Jared Bush as:
- Jürgen Ziegenkäse, a German-accented Saanen goat living near the Cliffs of Coppenhoffen who is Berthold's friend
- Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, one of Judy's gemsbok next-door neighbors
- June Squibb as Gram Gram,[‡ 9] Judy's grandmother
- Rachel House as Gramma Taller, a giraffe prisoner[9]
- Melissa G. Shepherd as a mouse prisoner who carries a knife
- Cecily Strong as Little Judith, Fru Fru's daughter and Judy's goddaughter[‡ 6]
- Mario Lopez as Denny Howlett, a wolf reporter at ZNN[‡ 7]
- Michael J. Fox as Michael J.,[‡ 6] a red fox prisoner
- Mark "Rhino" Smith as Officer McHorn, a black rhinoceros police officer[5]
- Josh Gad as Paul Moldebrandt, an ornery mole who works as the Zootopia Police Department's IT expert[9]
- Fabienne Rawley and Peter Mansbridge as Fabienne Growley and Peter Moosebridge, the snow leopard and moose anchors of the ZNN News[‡ 7]
- Robert Irwin as Robert Furwin, a koala airport receptionist[‡ 7]
- Anika Noni Rose as the announcer of the game show Squeal of Fortune[9]
- Taylen Biggs as Tailen Smalls,[‡ 7] a mouse gala guest that rides a champagne bottle cap from George Purrnacleo
- Mae Martin as Tuffy Cheeksworth,[‡ 7] a golden hamster prisoner
- Tommy Chong as Yax, a laid-back yak who owns the Mystic Springs Oasis naturalist club in Sahara Square.
- Dwayne Johnson as Zeke, a dik-dik from a parade who accidentally gets stuck in a tuba[9]
Production
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In June 2016, directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore were in talks about the possibility of a Zootopia sequel.[15][16] On February 8, 2023, during the Q1 earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that the sequel was in active development.[17] Later that day, screenwriter Jared Bush confirmed that he was working on the film.[‡ 10] Ginnifer Goodwin, who voices Judy Hopps, told CinemaBlend that she would like to see a role reversal between Judy and Nick in the sequel. "I would like to see Nick have to be the one to convince Judy that the world is worth fighting for". Jason Bateman, who voices Nick Wilde, also told CinemaBlend about his idea for the sequel: "The two of us [Nick and Judy], kicking butts out there. Cleaning up the streets. We're a couple of new cops out there. So, bad guys, be warned."[18]
On February 7, 2024, Iger announced the film's release date and that the film would be officially titled Zootopia 2.[19] On April 15, Goodwin confirmed on her Instagram account that she began recording her lines for Judy, revealing that the film was in production.[4] At the D23 Expo on August 9, it was announced that Zootopia 2 would feature reptiles, and Ke Huy Quan was announced to be playing Gary, a snake being pursued by Nick and Judy.[6] Footage was also shown of a sequence in which Nick and Judy search for Gary in Marsh Market.[20]
The following day, Bush revealed on his Twitter account that Fortune Feimster joined the cast to voice a beaver named Nibbles.[‡ 11] That same month, Bush was announced as the sequel's sole writer and director, while