Pixar’s latest hit movie “Hoppers” is coming to Disney+ very soon. The family-friendly animated film will begin streaming on Disney+ on June 3.
“Animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to ‘hop’ her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals,” the logline reads. “As she makes amazing discoveries, Mabel befriends a charismatic beaver and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major, imminent, human threat.”
“Hoppers” stars Piper Curda as Mabel, Bobby Moynihan as King George the beaver, Jon Hamm as Mayor Jerry Generazzo, Kathy Najimy as Dr. Samantha “Sam” Fairfax, Dave Franco as Titus the butterfly, Eduardo Franco as Loaf the beaver, Aparna Nancherla, Sam Richardson, Melissa Villaseñor, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Steve Purcell, Ego Nwodim, Vanessa Bayer and Meryl Streep as the Insect Queen.
‘”Hoppers’ is the kind of cheeky entertainment where the circle of life means that the woodland characters blithely accept that it’s their fate to be eaten,” Variety’s film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote. “At the same time, the movie has a heart and soul. Its timely theme is that the only path to salvation is for everyone to work with everyone else, and while that may sound like a ‘Kumbaya’ message, the movie is structured, in the end, as an intricate roller-coaster of togetherness. Jon Hamm starts off voicing Mayor Jerry with two-faced smarm, but his performance acquires layers. And Piper Curda makes Mabel driven and stirring enough to have much in common with Riley from the “Inside Out” films. I wouldn’t place ‘Hoppers’ on the level of those classics (or the “Toy Story” films), but it’s still top-drawer Pixar, a reminder that when this studio is firing on all cylinders, it can take you someplace you’ve never imagined.”
The film is directed by Daniel Chong and produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, with an original score by Mark Mothersbaugh and a screenplay by Jesse Andrews.
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