This movie should have been called Hisstopia because of how bad and about snakes it is.

I remember liking the first one as an effective buddy cop conspiracy with a lot of worldbuilding. This one's a complete rehash, but the main character's emotional progress has been inexplicably reset^🐇 which makes it feel somehow both painful and pointless to see her treat her best friend like shit for another entire movie (the main violation is that she consistently disregards his opinions and ignores his requests)

Things progress to the same kind of conclusion, villains are unmasked, yada yada. Then we get this doozy of a denouement, where Hopps the bunny and Nick the fox finally take the time to emotionally connect with one another:

Nick: Okay, I don't care that we're different, y'know? What I care about, is you. I care about you, okay? And I didn't say it - I should have said it, but I didn't, because uh, well, because I am an emotionally insecure source of your discomfort who is not good at expressing his feelings. Probably because I've been on my own my whole life. It's not an excuse it's just, it's why instead of telling you that you're the best thing that ever happened me, I make jokes about your ears and I tell you that you try too hard when, you know, the truth is I just don't want you to get hurt because no one else in the world matters more to me.

Hopps: I do try too hard because deep down I'm afraid that I am what everyone thinks I am. And I suppress my discomfort because I'm worried it makes me look weak and I want to be strong and I think of failing all the time. And I only take what you say personally because you're the only one in my life who ever believed in me, even when I don't even believe in myself. And I should have told you that. No one else in the world matters to me more than you do either.

Nick: I have unresolved childhood trauma that I refuse to discuss because being vulnerable scares me.

Hopps: I make dangerous choices because I have an unhealthy bunny-hero complex.

Nick: And I didn't join the ZPD because I wanted to be a cop. I joined because I always wanted to be part of a pack. And the thought of losing you scares me because... because you're my pack.

Hopps: I should never have left you. And I do need a herd of therapy animals. And I should have told you that you are the only partner I would ever want because you're my fluffle.

Nick: Uhh..

Hopps: That's a bunch of rabbits.

Disney, when you write therapyspeak like this, I feel like you suck.

Who is this for? Do we not do apologies anymore, or do we have to have a competition to show who's done the most Work On Themselves? Wear your friend down with a salvo of self-diagnoses! Manipulate them into something resembling forgiveness by bringing up your childhood trauma!

The worst part is that she doesn't even directly acknowledge the thing that she did wrong! "I'm sorry that I consistently ignored your requests to take less risky choices. I did it because of deep, unresolved childhood earplugs I have." Was that so hard?

I get that they're getting jokey with it - it's a comical amount of confession - but come on. Let's not encourage people to speak like this, please.

Who cares. This thing made a gajillion dollars and it's for eight-year olds and non-poser Shakira fans. I am neither.