"In recent years, the Disney-owned animation studio has succumbed to sequelitis; I didn't much care for Inside Out 2 or the Toy Story spinoff Lightyear, and even ostensible originals like Soul and Elemental have felt like high-concept disappointments. So it's a relief as well as a pleasure to recommend Pixar's wildly entertaining new movie, Hoppers, without reservation."
"Mabel is more of an animal lover than a people person. She inherited a love of nature from her late grandmother, and she wants nothing more than to protect her favorite place, a forest glade. The town's popular mayor, Jerry amusingly voiced by Jon Hamm is trying to ram a highway through the area."
"Dr. Sam calls the program Hoppers, because it allows a single human mind to enter, or 'hop,' into the body of a robot animal, which can then pass itself off as an actual animal and communicate with real creatures in the wild. Against Dr. Sam's wishes, Mabel hops into the robot beaver and makes her way deep into the forest."
Hoppers follows Mabel Tanaka, a 19-year-old environmental activist in Beaverton who discovers that beavers and forest wildlife have mysteriously vanished from her favorite glade, which a mayor plans to destroy with a highway. While investigating, Mabel learns of Dr. Sam's secret experiment called Hoppers, a technology allowing humans to transfer their consciousness into robot animals that can communicate with real wildlife. Against her professor's wishes, Mabel enters a robot beaver to venture into the forest and convince the real beavers to return. Directed by Daniel Chong with a script by Jesse Andrews, the film combines eco-themed messaging with unhinged comic energy, representing Pixar's most lively and entertaining offering in recent years.
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