We're in a bizarre place where Animation is more successful than ever, also on the edge of disaster. There is a constant threat of you, a study that puts pressure on outsourcing and a general reliance on IP and well -known franchises for creative ambition. This, in turn, means that whenever a studio Whether Get out with an original idea, that's the reason for celebration.

Take Pixar, one of the most beloved American animation study for the past 30 years. From the moment when the first computer -animated feature film debuted to get a big release, the studio balanced the big franchises as "Toy Story" and "Incredible" with one original movie after another. Of course, there were wrong fires, but it's about experimenting - because more Cartoons are making, the more cartoons Do everything.

This brings me to this year's presentation of Big Pixar at the 2025 Annimation Animation Festival, where studio's chief creative director, Pete Doctor, revealed his slate for the next few years. Although much of the attention was naturally put on "Elio", the next issue, it was Pixar's next movie after that, "Hopers" in 2026, in 2026, It earned even more cheerleaders than the already ecstatic audience at the festival. "Hoppers" is another scientific film about the studio, specifically a cute adventurous film for a girl who to save the forest animals from destroying their home from greedy, attacking people-decides to climb an animal avatar and grow allies to fight back.

That's the case: Pixar essentially transmits the "avatar" of Jameseims Cameron and makes it cute. And the reader, Ava is with Pixar, it seems, because this film looks great.

The doctor did not try to hide this, nor, as he referred to Hopers as "Avatar", but cute "at least three times during the presentation. Daniel Chong (" We Bake Bears ") directs the film, which is set in a world where scientists have developed technology to convey their consciousness. The film focuses on Mabel, the aforementioned young heroine that steals technology to climb the beard's body and try to warn animals from a nearby pond of the dangers set by a local highway construction project.

Similar to Avatar, when Akeei Suli (Sam Worthton) infiltrated Nai to help the inhumane corporation RDA to destroy Pandora's natural forests to routinely routinely and finally transfer to the side traditions. No, she does not fly exactly Icran in Hopers (at least not in the footage shown to Annesie), but she learns that there are rules for the pond. They all help each other, but "when you need to eat, eat." King George (Beard played by Bobby Menihan) has created an animal shelter that has lost their homes, but this is still nature, so predators are free and are expected to kill whatever they have for maintenance. Mabel learns this in the hard way to come across a bear that will swallow another beard. When Mabel mixes and saves Beaver, both are disappointed and confused by her actions - yes, even the chin, which looks perfect good with its misfortune. Oddly, it's funny, it's all as she wants.

The film deals with Mabel, trying to desperately gather allies and start a revolution to lead the pond to freedom by moving people away ... Just as Jake did in the first "Avatar" when the legendary Toruk Makto became. The footage ended up with a picture of several animals carrying crowns like George (as if they came from different clans of Navi).

Remeans live on animated films are a great source of money for the larger Hollywood study (Save for exceptions like "Snow White"), despite the great criticism they receive from both audiences and critics. However, there is no mater as much as and how loudSome people are protesting, everyone else continues to see them, which is obviously the reason why Hollywood refuses to stop fueling them. Unfortunately, these retellations also implicitly carry a disturbing message with them-namely, that live-action is the only medium that Really Questions and these stories are now more important because they are recounted this way (rather than in the form of a cartoon).

What makes this funny is that if the studio had to do the opposite, the good ones would surpass the cons. The act of translating a story from animation to intrinsic live action leads to something to lose because live-action simply cannot achieve the kind of visual animations. Take a live movie with action and turn it into animated, however, the sky is the limit. We have only seen only How improved the films "Spider-Vight" from other movies for superhero live Simply because of the opportunities they are given with animated. A film by Pixar inspired by Avatar, or at least sharing many ideas with the epic of Jameseims Cameron, is nothing if it is not an opportunity for greatness. Study, note. Every great live movie can be improved with an animated "remake".

Hopers opens in theaters on March 6, 2026.