- Content: “Love One Another”
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What You Need To Know:
ZOOTOPIA 2 is an action packed, heartwarming fantasy adventure with loads of laughs and great animation. It has a strong allegorical Christian, moral worldview. It stresses doing the right thing, even if it means sacrificing your life, working together, seeking truth and justice, and overcoming differences through love. However, ZOOTOPIA 2 has a few implied adult jokes, two light profanities, and scary scenes of peril in the movie’s often exciting and comical action scenes. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children. We suggest ages six and above are more appropriate.
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(CCC, BBB, PPP, L, VV, M): Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: Very strong allegorical Christian, moral worldview extols sacrifice, agape love among disparate groups, doing the right thing, working together with your partner, seeking truth and justice, overcoming differences to become one in spiritin a loving way, correcting a grave injustice, plus movie teaches a strong, righteous and conservative pluralism of America, E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many One, where the different animals overcome their differences to create a more harmonious social order under one set of values, with the highest value being to love one another; Foul Language: One OMG profanity, plus a second light profanity mentioning God and frogs eat bugs and a lizard forces two characters to eat wormy grubs but it’s a prank; Violence: Some strong and lots of light action, comedy, slapstick animated violence and scary scenes of peril include characters get bitten or pierced by snake venom and must get the antidote before they die, characters fall from great heights, characters must scale a high mountain, characters hit one another, vehicle chases cause crashes such as vehicle crashes into a van an results in a visual joke, fox pulls a bunny’s ears to keep from sliding, characters fall or are knocked down, a house crumbles under characters’’ feet, etc.; Sex: No sex; Nudity: No nudity; Alcohol Use: No alcohol use; Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse: No smoking or drugs; and, Miscellaneous Immorality: Villains frame animals, steal land, lie, and suppress truth, but they are rebuked.
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As the story opens, the other animals in the police department, including the Chief, think that the partnership between Judy Hopp, a rabbit cop, and Nick Wilde, a fox cop, isn’t working. They think that their exposure of the corrupt mayor was a fluke. Also, the bickering between Judy and Nick appears to prove their skepticism right.
So, Chief Bogo wants Judy and Nick to just observe the other officers as they take down a criminal. Instead of doing that, however, Judy convinces Nick to go after the criminal on their own. Of course, they mess everything up, and the two zebra policemen, who call themselves the “Zebros,” get the collar.
Judy finds a clue, however, suggesting a snake was behind the crime. A hundred years ago, snakes were banned from Zootopia because one of them allegedly murdered a turtle. Chief Bogo refuses to listen to Judy’s theory that a snake was involved. He orders her and Nick to go to partner therapy.
Judy thinks the mysterious snake will show up at the Zootennial Gala celebrating 100 years since Ebeneezer Lynxley created the weather walls that allows animals to live in harmony in Zootopia. The descendants of Lynxley, a family of feline snow lynxes led by Milton Lynxley, are hosting the Gala. They’re putting on display the old journal that details how Ebeneezer created the weather walls.
A pit viper appears, kidnaps Milton and escapes with the journal, but Judy catches up to them. However, the viper, who calls himself Gary De’Snake, convinces Judy that snakes aren’t bad animals. He says the journal contains the proof he needs to confirm that truth.
At that moment, however, Nick knocks Gary out with a frying pan, but Milton accuses Nick and Judy of aiding Gary. He tells Judy he’s going to have them arrested. When the police arrive, Gary regains consciousness, and Judy helps him escape, and leaves with Nick. However, Gary absconds with the journal, getting help from a mysterious animal on a motorcycle.
With the police and Milton’s henchmen after them, Judy and Nick follow Gary’s trail. They must work together to retrieve Gary and the journal, and find out the truth.
ZOOTOPIA 2 is an action packed animated fantasy adventure with loads of laughs and great animation. It’s a delightful, crowd-pleasing movie that offers laugh-out-loud moments, provides several heartwarming moments, and elicits multiple cheers.
Even better, ZOOTOPIA 2 has a strong allegorical Christian, moral worldview. It stresses sacrificing your life to help others and find truth, a society where everyone has agape (selfless) love for others, working together with your partner, doing the right thing, seeking truth and justice, overcoming differences to become one in spirit as suggested by Galatians 3:28 in the New Testament, and correcting a grave injustice. The movie also teaches a strong, righteous and conservative pluralism, similar to America’s celebrated motto of E Pluribus Unum, or Out of Many One. Thus, the different animals in ZOOTPOPIA 2 overcome their differences to create a more harmonious social order under one set of values, based primarily on love, kindness and mutual respect. There will still be crime, however, so justice is necessary.
That said, ZOOTOPIA 2 has some light implied adult jokes, two light profanities and some scary scenes of peril. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children. We also suggest that ages six and above are more appropriate.
