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Movie · Comedy, Sci-fi, Animated · 2026 · PG

Hoppers: parents' guide

8+our pick

Best for ages 8 and up. Rated PG for action/peril, some scary images and mild language.

A brisk, silly Pixar comedy for kids about 8 and up, about a college student who moves her mind into a robot beaver to save a forest glade from a highway project. It has more cartoon mayhem than many Pixar films: predators eat prey, one talking insect is squashed and another character is swallowed, a creepy humanlike robot crawls around, and animals take people hostage while plotting to wipe out humans. Grief over the heroine's late grandmother runs through the story. Language is mild and there's no drinking. The scary images and cartoon deaths are why we suggest 8.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

Mostly cartoonish but frequent: dynamite blasts a beaver dam, a car crashes, birds airlift a shark to attack a driver, and animals hold people hostage. Predators catch and eat prey on screen, one talking character is accidentally squashed and another is eaten. No blood.

Language

Mild

No profanity. Insults include stupid, dumb, jerk, loser and shut up, plus gosh, a 'fuzzy little behind,' and a bird's euphemistic twist on a cruder catchphrase about finding out.

Sex and nudity

None

No romance beyond a mix-up where an animal thinks he's being proposed to. The mayor ends up in a tank top and boxers, and a shower silhouette shows someone dancing; neither is sexual.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

None

None. No characters drink, smoke or use drugs, and alcohol isn't mentioned anywhere in the film.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

A robot made to look human loses its mask, exposing machinery, and skitters eerily; predators lunge at characters; a wildfire forces an evacuation. The heroine's grief for her grandmother is a strong emotional thread.

Sensitive topics

  • Animal death

Worth talking about

Mabel cares so much about the glade that she sometimes steamrolls everyone else. When does passion for a cause help, and when does listening to the other side matter more?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, Wikipedia, movieguide.org. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.