It’s somewhat surprising that it’s taken nine years to come up with a sequel to a billion-dollar breakout success about an animal city and its overstretched police department. Judging by this belated release, the heart, humour and characters for the follow-up were never the sticking point. The story, however, might have been a harder nut to crack, because the plot here smacks less of fox-like cunning and more of rabbit in the headlights.

The titular city is still a multi-species paradise that may spark lingering questions for adults about the economics of its scale (how can the same economy feed elephants and mice for knowledge-work without widespread economic injustice? Wouldn’t the pachyderms, with their greater physical requirements, be a permanent underclass while the mice built gen

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