Zootropolis 2 Trailer Puts Hopps And Wilde Back On The Case

Here’s something to make you feel senior on a Wednesday evening: it has been nine years — yes, nearly a whole decade — since Disney’s Zootropolis first hit cinemas. But, thanks to the magic of the movies, in Jared Bush and Byron Howard’s upcoming Zootropolis 2 it turns out it’s only actually been a week since rookie rabbit cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and wily fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) were made official crimefighting partners down at the ZPD. And if the newly released trailer for the buddy-cop duo’s (or should that be bunny-cop duo?) return is anything to go by, then it looks like there’s trouble in paw-ridise for Hopps and Wilde when we rejoin them here. Check it out below;

Don’t say we didn’t warn ya! Yep, barely a week after Hopps and Wilde went official (in the working sense) at the end of Zootropolis, this first full trailer for Zootropolis 2 finds the unlikely duo being carted off to cop-ples therapy group Partners In Crisis by Chief Bogo (Idris Elba). But before you can so much as say, “Hey, is that Quinta Brunson voicing a quokka therapist called Dr. Fuzzbee?”, along comes the make-or-break case that looks to be the catalyst for the action this time out: our dysfunctional faves need to lock in and track down a Ke Huy Quan-voiced snake named Gary who’s causing no end of problems across Zootropolis. The trailer doesn’t give a hell of a lot of plot away, but the promise — of hijinks-filled sojourns to eye-catching novel animal metropolis locales, some plush-ready newcomers (Fortune Feimster’s Nibbles the Beaver, for one), and the returns of fan favourites like Mr. Big, Fru Fru, and Flash — is enough to sell us on a Zootropolis sequel.

After a bit of a mixed-bag year for Disney thus far, which has seen its live-action Lilo & Stitch become 2025’s first billion-dollar movie while Pixar original effort Elio was sadly left to flounder at the box office, it’ll be compelling to see how directors Bush and Howard’s return to Zootropolis — where, lest we forget, the House of Mouse found joy to the tune of a frigid billion dollars worldwide first time out — fares with cinemagoers. Here’s Hopps-ing Zootropolis 2 makes the crowd go Wilde when it hits cinemas on 28 November, eh? (Sorry.)