The difference between a successful buddy comedy and a successful buddy comedy franchise is all about chemistry. You can cast the oddest of odd couples as your oil and water gumshoes, but if audiences don’t enjoy seeing that unlikely duo vibe—be it Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte discovering they love to smash redneck-heads in together, or Chris Tucker teaching Jackie Chan how to swagger to Edwin Starr—then you’re not getting a part two.

Luckily, Walt Disney Animation Studios and its fleet of animators—led as last time by directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard—know what they’re working with in Zootopia 2 . The introductory sequence of our furry heroes Hopps and Wilde (voiced again by Ginnifer Goodwin as the Bunnyburrow transplant rookie and Jason Bateman as the sly-guy fox con-artist-turne

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