Hoppers (2026)

Hoppers is funny, and light-hearted, but at the end of the day juvenile. The conflicts in this film were so existential and its resolution so hand-wavey, that the supposedly unifying message only rings hollow. The suspension of disbelief required to take this plot seriously without cutting through the empathy you build up for the characters is so immense that I can only imagine children capable of it. I think this really illustrates how bad Avatar was. 

It did move me how loyal and adorable the animals are in this film. Reminds me of Preston. He is a very affectionate and cuddly boy but I don’t always indulge him. Sometimes I am impatient and would repeatedly move him away from me after he hops onto me on the couch. I’d go to bed feeling bad thinking about the sad meow he’d give after realizing I didn’t want to spend time with him, also worried if he’d hate me the next morning but he will always forget all about it and be all cuddly again. I don’t think he actually understands that I need alone time sometimes just like him; he probably does think I’m just mean sometimes, but he still forgives me. Unconditional love like i’ve never known. 

I know animals being adorable is not new in any means, but living with a beast in the past year and a half has made me appreciate them so much more. Jerry totally should have been squished.