Hoppers review: Pixars beaver-centric take on Avatar is its most unhinged film yet

Pixar's Hoppers knows it's like Avatar.

Its protagonist, 19-year-old animal lover Mabel Tanaka (voiced by Piper Curda), draws the comparison as soon as she learns about the movie's "hopping" technology, which transfers human consciousnesses into ultra-realistic robot animal bodies. That way, humans can infiltrate the animal world and study it up close.

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