- Pixar's latest animated film, Hoppers, has garnered significant critical acclaim, achieving a 97 per cent score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
- The film, featuring a voice cast including Meryl Streep and Jon Hamm, centres on a 19-year-old environmentalist who enters a beaver's mind to help save its habitat, drawing comparisons to Avatar.
- Hoppers' near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score represents the best rating for a Pixar film in almost a decade, matching the success of 2017's Coco.
- It is the first of two Pixar films slated for release this year, with Toy Story 5 also due in June, as the studio continues to balance original stories with sequels.
- The Independent's critic, Clarisse Loughrey, awarded Hoppers four stars, praising its originality and energetic animation despite acknowledging its plot similarities to James Cameron's Avatar.
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