Movie Review: Pixar Delivers with Sweet, Action-Packed ‘Hoppers’
Mabel Tanaka, a 19-year-old environmental activist, transfers her mind into a robotic beaver, sparking a species conflict and highlighting a battle to save a cherished glade.
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Mabel Tanaka loves a forest clearing near Beaverton, which connects her with her grandmother. But Mayor Generazzo wants to build a highway across the forest for his re-election. With the help of a new technique, Mabel transfers her consciousness into a beaver – and joins forces with the animals to save nature. Read here our cinema criticism about the amusing animation fim "Hoppers". What would you not know about what dog or cat are thinking righ…
Hoppers: Operation Castor, the Frenzied Environmental Comedy Where Pixar Returns to Its Best Version
On Thursday, March 5, it will premiere in Chilean cinemas Hoppers: Operation Castor (2026), Disney Pixar’s new animated feature film. With an original story conceived by Daniel Chong (creator of the Cartoon Network Escandalosos series and director of this film) and Jesse Andrews, the film has been praised by specialized critics, who have defined it as “the return of Pixar to its best version” and “the confirmation of the revival of the studio”, …
After a series of sequels – among them "Alles steht Kopf 2" and the cinema hit "Zoomania 2" – Pixar releases an original with "Hoppers" again. Environmental protection meets technology in it: The 19-year-old Mabel slips into the body of a robot beaver to save her beloved forest clearing from destruction. The environmental fairy tale is rapid, but leaves grey tones missing.
Hoppers review – chipper critter comedy
A headstrong teenager plots against environmental destruction with the aid of the local wildlife in Daniel Chong's charming Pixar movie. The Pixar name used to signify indisputable quality for an animated film, but their light has dimmed in the past decade with a string of underwhelming releases. While Luca, Lightyear and Elio would be considered solid hits by any other studio's metrics and Elemental and Inside Out 2 certainly brought home the b…
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