So the mid year school holidays haven’t started yet, but Disney+ is serving up some of the biggest movies of the past six or so months in June, ensuring quality shared family time on the couch. That’s not all, though.
For anime fans, the streamer is bulking up its attractions with Naruto S3 and Dragon Striker from 10 June, along with Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, and My Hero Academia as of 19 June. For more mature audiences, meanwhile, Will Trent S4 and American Dad S21 both return on 3 June, while FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S17 is back as of 17 June.
Hoppers (Film)
The month starts strong with Pixar’s Hoppers, an animated comedy adventure that has been called the studio’s most entertaining movie in years. Certainly we enjoyed watching something breezy, heartfelt and entirely new versus a sequel or spin-off. In Hoppers, college student and animal rights activist Mabel Tanaka (voiced by Piper Curda) embraces experimental new technology to place her consciousness in a robotic beaver body. This to rally the local critters and stop a freeway overpass from being built on the site of a local glade.
Watch Hoppers on Disney+ from 3 June.
Not Suitable for Work (Series)
The Office star and writer Mindy Kaling is back on familiar turf with her new Hulu comedy series Not Suitable for Work. The show centres on five work-obsessed twenty-somethings, who strive for professional success in Manhattan as they start their careers and try to stave off quarter-life crises. Finding personal happiness will be a nice bonus too. Ella Hunt and Avantika Vandanapu head up the cast of the eight-part first season.
Not Suitable for Work arrives on Disney+ from 3 June, with the first three episodes, followed by weekly instalments.
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Film)
Another movie blockbuster coming to Disney+ this month is James Cameron’s third Pandora-set sci-fi action adventure, Avatar: Fire and Ash. While it lacks the world-building of the first two Avatars, and kind of copies its own homework, Fire and Ash is as visually dazzling and epic as ever. This time, ex-human-marine-turned-Na’vi-leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), his wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), and children must face the combined threat of Col. Miles Quarritch (Stephen Lang) and his human forces, aligned with the Ash People, a tribe of Naʼvi whose unhinged leader Varang (Oona Chaplin) just wants the world to burn.
Watch Avatar: Fire and Ash from Wednesday, 24 June.
The Bear S5 (Series)
Finally, award-winning comedy drama FX’s The Bear is serving up its fifth and final season. This batch of episodes picks up the morning after Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Sugar (Abby Elliott) discover that Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) has quit the food industry, leaving the restaurant to them. With no money, the threat of a sale, and a storm in their way, the team must band together to achieve one last service. Brace for more stress and loads of feels.
All eight episodes of The Bear Season 5 drop on 26 June. Also, don’t forget that right now you can watch Gary, a shadow-dropped prequel episode that follows best friends Richie and Mikey (Jon Bernthal) on a day trip to Gary, Indiana – long before The Bear kicked off overall.
