This text incorporates spoilers for “Zootopia 2.”
Jared Bush’s and Byron Howard’s 2025 animated movie “Zootopia 2” has already been extra profitable than one may’ve predicted. Worldwide, it is already made virtually $1.66 billion, making it the second highest-grossing movie of its yr behind solely the Chinese language animated epic “Ne Zha 2.” That determine additionally at the moment makes it the twelfth highest-grossing movie of all time, having already overwhelmed “The Avengers.” And even when counting solely its home grosses, “Zootopia 2” is the third highest-grossing movie of 2025.
The movie’s success could also be resulting from its cute animal designs, as its lead characters — the fox Nick (Jason Bateman) and the bunny Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) — are fuzzy and lovely. A part of the movie’s success can also be attributable to its common themes of racism and prejudice. The “Zootopia” motion pictures happen within the title metropolis, a multi-species metropolis that makes use of high-tech environmental controls to make sure any and all animals will be capable to entry their pure biomes whereas dwelling inside its partitions. However whereas Zootopia is a utopia, there are nonetheless lingering prejudices that have to be overcome. “Zootopia 2” is explicitly about redlining. It appears there was a scheme throughout Zootopia’s planning phases years in the past to push reptiles out of town and construct mammal purchasing facilities of their previous neighborhoods.
The principle reptile character of “Zootopia 2” is Gary, a snake performed by Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan. Quan, after all, rose to fame again in 1984 when he starred in Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” when he was solely 13. The makers of “Zootopia 2,” desirous to pay homage to Quan’s look in “Temple,” cleverly inserted some snake characters that resembled Quan’s and Harrison Ford’s characters from that movie. It is one Easter egg of many.
Zootopia 2 has snake variations of Quick Spherical and Indiana Jones
To remind readers, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was one of many larger hits of 1984, and continues to be watched to today, regardless of a status of being one of many lesser Indiana Jones motion pictures. Ke Huy Quan performed Quick Spherical, a 12-year-old child who, for causes which are by no means absolutely defined, fell into the corporate of the title character, agreeing to assist him in tight spots and function a contract driver. Quan was extremely charismatic within the position, and has been remembered for many years. As an grownup, Quan stepped away from performing and studied modifying, filmmaking, and martial arts. He returned within the 2020s, and shortly gained an Oscar for “Every part In all places All at As soon as.”
In “Zootopia 2,” Quan voiced Gary De’Snake, a snake who appears, initially, like he could also be as much as no good. He steals an previous ebook which will include a secret he goals to disclose. I will not absolutely reveal right here what’s within the ebook, but it surely does contain the destiny of Gary’s snake household, at the moment dwelling in exile exterior of Zootopia. As a result of this can be a lighthearted talking-animal movie produced by Disney, the drama, after all, reaches a contented conclusion, and it is solely a matter of time earlier than we see Gary’s completely happy household.
Once we do see them, the movie’s animators included a enjoyable little “Temple of Doom” reference. One member of Gary’s household is seen sporting a fedora, equivalent to the one Harrison Ford wears in “Temple of Doom.” Moreover, a baby snake character is sporting a baseball cap, the identical one Quick Spherical wore.
It is transient, but it surely’s in there. “Zootopia 2” might be on Disney+ quickly sufficient, so maintain a watch out for it.
