Pixar‘s animal kingdom and sci-fi mash-up, Hoppers, just dropped a hilarious first look fleshing out its premise, which asks, “What if we could finally talk to animals?”
The trailer introduces a tech breakthrough in the form of a robot animal that scientists manage to transfer anyone’s brain into in order to get in deep with other species. And yeah, it’s like James Cameron’s Avatar, but make it cute. Our Sully in this case is Mabel (Piper Curda), who lets her mind hop into the tech prototype and throws herself headfirst into the experiment to understand our furry planetary companions.
Take a look at the first trailer from Daniel Chong, the creator of We Bare Bears, whose signature offbeat and earnest humor jumps off the screen in our first look at his Pixar project.
In a release from Pixar, Chong shared, “In Hoppers, the question we’re answering is: ‘What if we could understand and communicate with the animal world?’ Our main character, Mabel, gets to discover the animal kingdom as an animal, which can be weird and often hilarious. Mabel undercover in the animal world leads to a wild, roller coaster ride of a movie, with all the heart you expect from a classic Pixar film. It’s going to be so much fun to watch in the theater; I can’t wait for everyone to see it.”
Hoppers also features the voice talents of Bobby Moynihan (We Bare Bears) and Jon Hamm (Top Gun: Maverick). The adorable nature of the lifelike robot fooling the animals around them has us excited to see more of the furry hijinks that will ensue as Mabel becomes a way for not just humans to understand animals, but seemingly also for the animals to understand each other. I mean, disturbing the natural order of things can’t possibly go too wrong, right?
Hoppers hits theaters March 6, 2026.