Because of this, it's unlikely that Easter Sunday will ever become Channel 4's Hop day. And then there's Hank Azaria's Carlos, a character who could have been Hop's Buddy Pine figure if he wasn't a total afterthought who appears to have been thrown in at the last minute to stop the film from simply being a collection of sequences where a rabbit knocks stuff over. They never speak and then get offed by a chocolate hose just when it looks like they're about to get something interesting to do. There are three Pink Berets – female attack rabbits, in essence – who spend the entire duration of the film hunting for EB like cuddly Nazgûls. Plus, even for a 90-minute film, Hop contains subplots that are inexcusably flabby and weak. Hop, featuring the Easter Bunny as voiced by Russell Brand Photograph: Rhythm & Hues Most of these things had stopped being relevant by the summer of 2011, if they ever were at all, so watching it now is like strolling through the ruins of Pompeii.
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Here, EB plays Rock Band, visits the Playboy mansion, drums for the Blind Boys of Alabama, auditions for a TV show that's America's Got Talent in all but name, meets David Hasselhoff, has a conversation about Knight Rider and then comes face to face with Russell Brand himself. In retrospect, part of the reason why Hop has drifted from the public consciousness is that, like so many other animations of the last decade, it's jammed with so many ironic pop references that it became irreparably dated a nanosecond after it was released. "Little man, my best friend is a talking car" - David Hasselhoff By 'hi-jinx', I obviously mean that a rabbit craps out a pile of jellybeans as some sort of hideous party trick and James Marsden gurns at him a lot. Their paths cross after a fortuitous near-fatal inter-species road accident, and hi-jinx ensue. It's about Fred O'Hare (James Marsden), a human slacker who wants to be the Easter Bunny and EB (Russell Brand), the unwilling heir of the Easter Bunny title who runs away to Hollywood to fulfil his dream of becoming a drummer. However, Hop isn't about the Easter Bunny.
Worse, in Hop, the Easter Bunny also makes Haribo-style gummy sweets when, as everyone knows, eating gelatine-based confectionery at Easter is a vile aberration of tradition.Įggsceptionally bad. Here, the Easter Bunny has a vast workshop where he makes millions of Easter eggs before speeding around the planet delivering them on Easter Sunday, when everyone knows that he's really a redundant mutant hermaphrodite who roams around naked but for a bowtie, teaching children about the importance of uncapped reproduction. The first mistake Hop makes is to confuse the mythology of the Easter Bunny with the mythology of Santa Claus. "Ugh, this must the rags part of my rags-to-riches story" - EB
It's a partly-animated comedy about the Easter Bunny that you've almost certainly forgotten about, but could Hop be Channel 4's new Elf? Might this be the start of a grand new seasonal viewing tradition? Let's find out. However, in 2011, Hop arrived to simultaneously buck that trend and continue Russell Brand's eventually-doomed effort to become an A-list Hollywood movie star. Sure, there are the biblical epics that last for four hours and linger on torture and graphic violence as a way of getting bums on seats, but they're not exactly fun to sit through. Historically speaking, there hasn't really been much call for Easter movies.
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