Spoilers ahead! Quotes and reflective thoughts pull directly from the movie, please read at your own discretion.
This post is about the movie Zootopia 2. Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard. Starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, and Ke Huy Quan.
Proving We Belong
Fresh off the tracks of a seemingly one hit break, you’re in hot pursuit of what you know is far from a bust. A team of two with a source of discomfort, but a good team nonetheless. You stick to what you swore to protect, and you’re on the run, with leads that bring you face to face with a truth beyond the walls. A cold case made warm by a bit of a twist…a snake! To succeed is a have to, being brave is a get to. Nothing else, no one else, matters more to you. You don’t fight cats, but this time you do…
To prove we all belong. To prove we are not all that different.
Prefer to listen? Hear my reading of the reflection aloud.
Zootopia 2 is a hot fursuit of its predecessor, a worthy sequel and ever more, a fun-filled exhibit of zoogetherness! No bunny is left behind, neither a fox, a snake, or a beaver. A doing of what matters most, for what you care about most, and who. We see how much of a difference one warm friend can make, when brave enough to do the right thing.
Key Quotes & Reflections
We Are A Real Team
“Just remember the first rule of partnerships is you can be right or you can be happy”
~ Stu Hopps
You Win Some. Very true. You lose some too.
Follow In Your Footsteps. Be of low stature, and your walkings of goodness very well may be larger than where you stand. And in your steps, they aspire to follow.
A Classic Response Mechanism. A formulaically soft way of our being due to the hardness of man; this a protection, this an enjoyment, and too an avoidance of your depths of truth.
Source Of Her Discomfort. You don’t mean to be, while in fact you do all the same. The irony of being amongst us all.
Do You Think We’re A Good Team? Of course you do. When has the collected thought of disbelief, ever proven right to what you know as truth?
We Need This. Or so it seems. Important is it for others to know the error of their ways, but to strive in proving it is an error of your own. Just be.
Any Possible Scenario
“I just like to be prepared for anything”
~ Judy Hopps
Come On Get On Up! Enjoy in dance and in song! We all deserve to be merry.
We Are Here To Protect It. Our nature is to protect, what is it that you keep safe?
I Think I’ve Got Something. So you see, but they don’t listen. Do not be pulled away before they can see it too.
Snakes Never Hurt Anyone. We Aren’t The Bad Guys, They Are. How diluted we have become, framed thinkings elevated as truth and seeing of ourselves as separate. Do not abide in what is practiced as right. How can we expect goodness to be upon all when only ourselves we bring upon it?
You Will Keep Your Mouths Shut. “We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:18-20). Those of moral courage, refuse silence, always let it be known what is true.
More Than Horseplay
“…you don’t fight the cats, you leave”
~ Mr. Big
I Want Them Gone…Aren’t There Laws? When lawlessness grows from delay, the heart fully sets to do evil.
We’re Worried About You. Parents shall always worry for their children, so as our Father worries for us all.
Territorial Animals Will Do Anything for More Land. Territorial instinct baptized in legality and power, abetting crude pleasures that are to the avail of those of power. What greater grief can there be?
She Runs A Podcast. Rest assured all is wise…
An Innocent Snake That Needs Our Help. Show unto to others what has been shown unto you; have pity on the needy, seek to be of aid.
We’ll All Get Pushed Out. As the coveters make their way in.
No No Not Me Sorry, You Sorry. No no not they sorry, we sorry.
We Have To Solve The Case
“The world will never be a better place if no one is brave enough to do the right things”
~ Judy Hopps
What Happened To You So That You Can’t Have A Normal Conversation? What happened to us to be void of unalloyed contemplations?
They Push Out The Animals With Lies. We bring in our brothers and sisters with truth.
I Think We Are Different. I think we are all much the same.
I Told You She’s Helping. I tell you it never hurts to help.
We Shall Succeed
“Judy, the world was never meant to be on one animal’s shoulders…”
~ Gary De’Snake
Foxes, like water folks, are lesser animals. Who are we to distinct amongst ourselves; judges both haughty and foolish?
If I Can Fix Things For My Family, Then It Will Be Worth It. Honor, protect, and lay down your life for the ones you love — your family.
Everybody Believed His Lie. From the one who appears sheep but certainly within, a ravenous wolf.
We Will Succeed Judy Hopps! And that you will, with faith even the side of a mustard seed.
My Best Warm Friend
Solitary Animals Like Me Don’t Have Real Friends. We think ourselves so far reclused we become something else entirely. Estranged by lies and lonely by deceit. A friend we do have, and others we all deserve.
They Wouldn’t Want Me To Put The Weight of The World On My Soldiers. We do not have the shoulders to bear the weight of the world. This has already been done, and too, it is not for us to bear.
We Gotta Prove To Everyone That We Belong. To carry out our ways for the eyes of man, where does that bring us but assuredly lost all the more?
No Lose Ends. A cry for the ends you do not want to lose.
You Can Be Different From Your Family. That you can be; you are not what surrounds you.
It’s Not Worth Fighting For. Agree to disagree, and you disagree. No greater love is there.
I Don’t Care That We’re Different. Care that moreover we are all the same; thus, our differences are ones to be cherished, ones to be loved all the more.
Zootogetherness
“Maybe if we just talk to one another we’ll start to see that our differences don’t make us that different at all…”
~ Nick Wilde
Nothing You Do Matters. Fighting for truth, pawing for it so we may all live in a better place, that will always matter.
One Long Sock. You knew it, now you see, and it’s very much true :’)
Differences Don’t Make Us That Different. We do best to remember we all fall short, we all can be made whole again.
This is My Family. Permission To Hug? Permission to hug.
To The Believer
I quarrel with myself to seeing of this story far deeper than the apparent. In so, I know it passed upon me great enjoyments of the experience in its telling. However; too, this you are to know:
The Greedy.
“Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.”
Micah 2:1-2
Find there is much to be said of the geopolitical tensions. Light-hearted echoes to the haughty, despicable, ravenous wantings that satiate only the desire that lead not life. Eerie it leaves the soul to know such man walk these shadows to no expense. Nation upon nation, neighbor upon neighbor, friend upon friend.
The Lawless.
“Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.”
Ecclesiastes 8:11
For all is known by their fruits, what is planted in this world by the basis of its merits, will be the fruits of its kind. Savored by you, when with thinkings, that with like fruits that have been bore, you too are to delight in the same. Evil and its deeds are as the fig that has bore first its leaves. No fruit is there really. With no sentencing fast known in this life, we live without charge, but we shall be made to answer in the next. Repentance, I plead this of you.
The Faithful.
“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the spring of life”
Proverbs 4:23
See that you are not all giving but far more to give. For without such how can you come to think with speed and know there are paths far better to go? Practice the semblances that scratch your mind’s workings, and the reservations of goodness that echo loftier skies than to the ground where you now stand. To be of faith is to know assuredly there is goodness to be made; experience Him to know this, and make way for such goodness as you have been called to make.
The Merry.
“There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God”
Ecclesiastes 2:24
Amongst the many many contentions of these things, when then do you take your rest, or know the pleasures in this life? This comes on the thereafter and amidst it all. Joy and be merry. This I have come to find such the experience in these stories. O how I do seek and rest all the same. Singing in a place where anyone can be anything.
Credit: Script and select images used in this post are from Zootopia 2 (© Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures). Included for reflective commentary and thematic analysis..
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