Pixar's Upcoming Movie Brings Avatar-Inspired Story with Nature's Engineers
Pixar has shared the preview for its upcoming animated film, Hoppers, and it presents a concept that is equally unusual and delightful.
Storyline Summary
Hoppers centers on a young nature enthusiast named Mabel Tanaka (played by Piper Curda), a 19-year-old nature-lover who acquires the ability to understand animals thanks to experimenting with a form of Avatar-inspired device created by a university instructors.
“The conventional approaches to study creatures just failed,” explains one of the scientists who invented the consciousness-transfer technology.
The Way Hoppers Functions
Referred to as “Hoppers,” the technology essentially works akin to the mind-link technology featured in the Avatar series films, but with a single small difference: Instead of awakening as a seven-foot-tall navy-colored extraterrestrial, the protagonist's awareness is shifted into a robotic animal body. In particular, a robotic beaver-avatar.
Conflict and Characters
Similar to Avatar's protagonist Jake, the heroine quickly finds herself becoming overly involved with the residents of the animal kingdom, accidentally sparking an animal uprising led by a regal monarch butterfly (voiced by Meryl Streep) and the leader of the beavers (Bobby Moynihan), who are resolved to “crush the humans.”
In one scene, antagonist Mayor Jerry (Jon Hamm) is confined in his vehicle by a pair of beavers and a reptile, who subsequently intimidate him through his cellphone's text-to-speech capability.
Release Information
Hoppers arrives in theaters on the sixth of March.