‘Hoppers’ and the World We’ve Stopped Seeing

Count me among the chorus of those cheering for Disney Pixar’s newest film, Hoppers. It’s the best Pixar endeavor in years—an energetic and likable protagonist in Mabel, a memorable storyline, and the kind of comedy that earns its laughs from character and plot rather than from potty humor or knowing adult winks.An early scene won me over. A young Mabel sits with her grandmother on a rock just outside a forest glade, and, naturally, she at first resists the whole idea of just . . . s