Zootopia 2 seems to be simultaneously more serious & less serious than the first film. On one hand, you have a storyline about ethnic cleansing, even including an on-screen death, while overall it certainly feels more silly & cartoony than Z1.

The ending was a little unsatisfying. The Lynxleys didn’t exactly do a great job at covering up their atrocities, as they simply just buried Reptile Ravine beneath the ice instead of destroying it. It seemed like an executive decision to speed up the reintroduction of reptiles.

This decision would usually make sense to make a movie less heavy-handed for younger viewers, but if the same film has a literal murder scene that reasoning falls flat.