Film reviews: ‘Hoppers’ and ‘Dreams’

‘Hoppers’

Directed by Daniel Chong (PG)

★★★

“Pixar returns to vintage form with Hoppers,” said David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. After last year’s box office clunker Elio, the animation company has rebounded with this “clever, funny, and visually appealing” comedy that “zips along, driven by rambunctious energy.” Disney Channel star Piper Curda voices Mabel, a teen environmentalist
trying to save the woods from demolition by using a “hopper,” an Avatar-like gizmo that...