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Arun and Patricia discuss the 2026 Pixar animated film Hoppers, its plot, characters, and reception.
In this episode of PixMix, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2026 Pixar animated film Hoppers. Co-written and directed by Daniel Chong, the creator of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears, Hoppers focuses on a 19-year-old young adult named Mabel who has a love and passion for animals and nature due to her grandmother. When she passed away, the forest glade that her and Mabel would go to often is in danger of being replaced by a freeway led by the mayor of her town. One day while trying to lure one beaver to the glade to restore it, she sees a beaver wandering around. She follows it and learns that it's a robot beaver created by her college professor Dr. Sam Fairfax under the project Hoppers to have their human consciousness into robotic animals to observe them. Mabel places her consciousness into the robotic beaver to find beavers to save the glade. She meets up with all the animals in a small, crowded part of the forest led by a beaver named King George who knows everyone and sees the good in everyone. When the film premiered in theaters, it made over $164 million dollars with a $150 million dollar budget. It received positive reviews from critics and fans calling it a hilarious…
People in this episode
Hosts: Arun, Patricia
Topics covered
- Pixar
- animated film
- Hoppers
- Mabel
- robot beaver
- nature
- animals
Keywords
- Daniel Chong
- We Bare Bears
- King George
- forest glade
- robotic animals
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Hoppers
Books & works: Hoppers, We Bare Bears, Coco
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