The jig is up, everyone. Disney knows we think their cartoons are hot, and they're messing with us.

Honestly? I applaud the House of Mouse for being bold enough to make this obvious in "Zootopia 2," the sequel to the massively popular 2016 film "Zootopia" that features cute talking animals dealing with — let me check my notes — inappropriate policing practices and something the movie calls "prey supremacy," which you can probably unpack on your own. The first "Zootopia," as you might gather from that description, is pretty striking in its messaging, but the sequel really takes things up a notch. What I'm here to focus on, though, isn't the overarching message of the film that my /Film colleague BJ Colangelo called "an exploration of how the stereotypes that pit us against those who are

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