Pixar just dropped a new trailer for Hoppers, and it looks like the studio is leaning hard into weird sci fi comedy with a real heart underneath. The film is Pixar’s next original feature, hitting theaters on March 6, 2026, and this trailer gives a much clearer sense of what the movie actually is beyond the earlier teaser.
The setup is delightfully bonkers. Mabel, a college aged animal superfan, gets access to a breakthrough that lets humans “hop” their consciousness into lifelike robotic animals. In her case, that means waking up as a beaver so she can live among the critters she loves and finally understand what they are saying. The trailer shows her learning the ropes inside a full-on animal society, complete with its own rules, rivalries, and big personalities, while she tries to protect their home from human threats.
Tonally, this one feels faster and more joke-forward than a lot of recent Pixar originals, but not in a weightless way. The trailer keeps circling back to Mabel’s bond with the animals, and to the idea that seeing the world through another creature’s body might change how you behave in your own. There’s also a fun self-aware nod to the “human in a new body” concept, like Pixar knows you’re thinking about Avatar comparisons and is ready to play with that.
Voice-wise, the cast is stacked. Piper Curda leads as Mabel, with Bobby Moynihan as the upbeat beaver king George and Jon Hamm as Mayor Jerry, a politician who’s very much not on Team Forest. The new trailer also spotlights a bunch of fresh additions, including Meryl Streep, Dave Franco, Ego Nwodim, Vanessa Bayer, and more, suggesting the animal world is going to be packed with memorable side characters. And with Daniel Chong (We Bare Bears) directing, the snappy comedy beats make a lot of sense.
If the movie delivers on what this trailer promises, Hoppers could be that rare Pixar swing that’s equal parts oddball and earnest. At the very least, it already feels like something we haven’t seen from them before in a while.
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