Hop (2011)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  2 / 10

  Hop is better off being butchered, making a nice rabbit stew. I woke up this Saturday morning thinking "let's put on a nice mediocre animation". An easy and pleasant watch, that's all I wanted. Naturally, I didn't even get that! How difficult is it to produce a family fun flick about Easter? Getting children in the mood to feast on sweet sweet chocolate. Evidently, bloody difficult! Especially when the director of 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' is at the helm. Oh, and Illumination Studios. My hatred for them continues to grow! A bunny from Easter Island yearns to be a drummer, and so ventures to Hollywood where he encounters a worthless unemployed "man child" who must find his calling in life.
  
  Marsden. Why? Why do this to your career? You quite literally obliterated it, despite giving your best efforts. So, this animation utilises everything that I despise in mainstream family films. Firstly, animation alongside real actors. It worked in other bunny rabbit films like 'Peter Rabbit', but that's because the creatures were always in the backdrop of the real world. When Marsden is miraculously kidnapped and transported to the inner sanctum of Easter Island, it's an actor living and breathing in a green screen world. It's dumb. It's obvious. I hate it.
  
  Secondly, excessive pop songs. Drumming along to an auto tuned rendition of Taio Cruz' "Dynamite" in front of David frickin' Hasselhoff is not going to make me smile and dance. It's going to make me want to cut my ears off and place them over my eyes. I hate it.
  
  Thirdly, terrible voice actors. Russell Brand is obnoxiously uncharismatic and cannot lead the film. His voice is more suited to an alcoholic skunk than a cute fluffy rabbit. I hate it.
  
  Fourthly, no plot. The narrative is just a bunch of stupid sexually inferred jokes, like naively approaching Playboy Mansion (as if kids are going to know that!), stringed together to create a poor excuse of a story. The forced villain was forced. Supporting characters were non-existent. I hate it. Hop has no bounce. Hop has no fluffy bunny tail. Hop is hop(e)lessly inept, and I'd rather watch 'Minions'.

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