Hoppers 🎥 2026 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In the city of Beaverton, Mabel Tanaka spends her childhood with her grandmother in a nearby forest glade inhabited by many wild animals, particularly a colony of beavers. Inspired by her grandmother, Mabel grows up with a deep appreciation for nature and continues watching over the glade after her grandmother’s death. When Beaverton’s mayor, Jerry Generazzo, announces plans to replace the glade with a freeway, Mabel campaigns against the project but receives no support. Her activism causes her to neglect her college studies, to the disapproval of her biology professor, Dr. Sam Fairfax.

While trying to lure beavers back to the glade, Mabel discovers that Sam and her colleagues have secretly developed a new technology designed to enhance wildlife research. Known as the “Hoppers” program, it allows a human consciousness to “hop” into a robotic animal and experience life as that species. Seeing an opportunity to save the glade, Mabel hops into a robotic beaver against Sam’s wishes and flees the lab. Believed by the animals to be a real beaver, Mabel is brought before King George, a beaver monarch who houses the glade’s displaced animal residents in a massive dam. Mabel discovers an artificial tree emitting sound waves audible only to animals that Jerry secretly installed to drive them away, and destroys it, causing George’s subjects to begin returning to the glade.

Mabel grows closer to George, who shares his past and eventually asks her to serve as his personal advisor. Mabel is about to reveal her true identity to George when the animals are driven back to the dam by Jerry, who has installed more sound trees and resumed construction. Mabel and George arrange a meeting with the Animal Council in the dam, attended by monarchs representing the Insect, Amphibian, Fish, Reptile, and Bird classes, with George representing the mammals.

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