Hoppers (2026): film details

Hoppers is included in our 2026 film coverage. Directed by Daniel Chong, this English-language film runs for 104 minutes.

The film file

Our research-based take

The Salty Score: 4/5. Pixar remembers how to be weird.

The animal-switching premise gives Pixar room for odd visual comedy and a fresh environmental angle. Reviews point to inventive animation and a lively emotional core rather than a mere parade of cute creatures. It looks like a particularly good family pick: accessible for younger viewers, with enough strangeness to keep adults engaged.

The unusual premise gives the animators an excuse to look at the animal world from the inside rather than simply draw it as a pretty background. The best family films use that kind of comic invention to open a larger emotional question. Here, the environmental theme sounds livelier when it emerges from character choices instead of becoming a lesson delivered from above. Reviews suggest the movie mostly keeps that balance. We would recommend it to families seeking something energetic and slightly odd, and to adults who miss Pixar taking a fresh conceptual swing. The score reflects the reported imagination and heart, while leaving room for the possibility that its busier passages do not all land equally. A film about changing bodies could easily become only a transformation gimmick. This one appears interested in how changing perspective might change behaviour.

This is our editorial judgment from published information and critical coverage, not a first-hand screening review. Read the source coverage. We may revise the score after viewing the film.

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