Hoppers

Charming and occasionally funny. I liked most of the characters and the plot was not that ridiculous surprisingly.

A lot of this movie is cliché, checking off Pixar's standard emotional boxes. Then it just completely loses its mind.

This movie went beast mode

In my opinion the 3 things that should be a make or break for a movie is either the hero, the villain or the plot. And Hoppers broke the hero for me, which is why the movie is rated so low. Mabel is just such an annoying character who literally doesn’t change throughout the movie at all. Her anger issues don’t get solved, her problems with authority or her trying to control everything. She just makes the movie’s message be, if you annoy everyone enough eventually you will get your way, instead of something more deeper like other Pixar movies have been. As for the rest of the movie, once you get past that the plot is just absolutely ridiculous, it’s ok. I do say though I wish they hadn’t tried to do so much serious world and character building just to throw it out in the second half when the queen bug got squished. But if it wasn’t that then I would have been able to let go and stop taking it seriously and realize it’s just a dumb movie. But overall I mainly dislike it for Mabel, every other critique comes secondary