moppet

The first half of the movie largely centers on the life that Raphaël makes with Juliette as she grows from a curly-head moppet into a bold young adult who’s at once dreamy and pragmatic.

Unlike a lot of movie moppets, Leila is neither protagonist nor prop.

The girl herself has been a vampire for 10 years rather than hundreds, and the boy is an unbearably cute moppet who does magic tricks.

But none of those are flies in the "Love and Thunder" cocktail, especially given the final battle's adorable reinforcement by a gaggle of electrified moppets.

Where other shows exploit the teacher-student relationship purely for the laughs and build moppets into joke machines, "Abbott Elementary" highlights the ways unequal allocations of resources impact children.