3 min readMar 6, 2026 02:33 PM IST Hoppers movie review: The hopper doth hop too much. This latest Pixar animation is a frenzied exploration of an idea that could have been told ever so simply, with not much humour or a catchy song or two to lift it. But what are humans for, than to complicate what animals know so simply: that co-existence is possible, that co-existence is essential, and that co-existence is elementary. We get to this rule of nature by a roundabout manner which starts, like always, with a girl who is lonely and a misfit (Mabel, voiced by Curda), who finds one friendly and understanding adult (her grandmother) to be herself. Mabel grows up loving animals and particularly the glade where she visited with her grandmother. But now she is 19, the grandmother is dead, and her town Beaverton needs a beltway through the jungle to cut distances and time. The development lobby is steered by Beaverton’s very charismatic (but also surprisingly accessible) Mayor, Jerry (Hamm). When Mabel takes Jerry on, …