In a popular recent movie, two protagonists work together as partners in a police department. They have very different personalities: The man is cynical, quick with a quip, always in a loose tie and a tucked-in shirt. The woman is earnest, mission-driven, persistent, idealistic. They are past their meet-cute and their first adventure together and into a consolidating phase of their relationship, when they will decide whether the chemistry they felt in the first blush of encountering one another signifies something real. Every adult in the audience will spend the movie’s run time wondering if they will or won’t.

No, these are not the main characters of a rom-com or a romantic drama. They are Nick Wilde, the cartoon fox voiced by Jason Bateman, and Judy Hopps, the cartoon rabbit voiced by G

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