"Hoppers" Conquer New Heights: Pixar's New Hit Earns $100 Million and Critical Acclaim
Pixar's animated feature "Hoppers" has climbed past $100M at the global box office and picked up strong reactions: Rotten Tomatoes sits around 93–94%, and CinemaScore moviegoers gave it an "A". Those figures are blunt instruments — they don't capture everything, but they do show people are turning up.
The plot follows 19-yr-old Mabel, an animal nut who signs on for a corporate experiment to transfer consciousness into an animal robot and wakes up as a mechanical beaver (yes, a beaver). In that unfamiliar shell she manages to gain the forest creatures' trust and tries to thwart the mayor's plans to raze the woods for development.
Dir./wrt. Daniel Chong — the creator of "We Bare Bears" — steers the movie. It's part fable, part oddball sci-fi, and apparently it resonated with enough viewers to make some noise.