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Certificate U

Cast Russell Brand (voice) James Marsden Ken Daurio.

Directors Tim Hill.

Screenwriters Cinco Paul Brian Lynch Kaley Cuoco.

Running Time 94 minutes

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Plot
An Easter Bunny is injured and unable to hop after being hit by a car driven by Fred (Marsden). Fred, a bit of slacker, is forced to take over his job to save Easter.

Review
Cute but chaotic animated animal meets live action slacker and impresses with his musical talent... If that sounds familiar, bear in mind this does come from the director of Alvin And The Chipmunks. Easter Bunny-in-training E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) runs away from Easter Island to LA, where he meets and hangs onto the reluctant Fred (James Marsden). E.B. is a budding drummer so auditions for David Hasselhoff for Hoff Knows Talent (we kid you not). Meanwhile a chick is plotting to overthrow E.B.’s Dad, the Easter Bunny, back at base. It’s a dull, convoluted plot that strings together slapstick set pieces. Brand wrings what laughs he can out of a limited script and the colourful, creative animation work is terrific. Shame the same effort wasn’t put into the screenplay.

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Average user rating for Hop

this movie was good for the kids and there was one part for the older people in the audence when david hasselhoff said " my best freinds a talking car " the kids thourght of disney's lightning mc'queen, but it wasn't! i really enjoyed watching this movie but why did russell brand have to be in it ! wasn't there any other people that could of played the bunny EB or "erb" as russell later calls the bunny when he comes to tell EB that he's on in 2 minutes, but this movie will ... More

Posted by Grace Duckworth at 13:56, 25 April 2011 | Report This Post

RE: Destined to be a Classic

I too saw this using my trusty unlimited card (my choices for the day were The Eagle and Tomorrow When The War Began, naturally we ended up seeing this and Rio!). Maybe it was because I had such incredibly low expectations for this, maybe because Rio was just awful, or a combination of the two, but I actually found this a reasonably passable waste of 90 mins. Nowhere near as bad as I'd feared or expected, Hop was ok. Nothing more nothing less. 3 Stars. ... More

Posted by skeletonjack at 17:09, 11 April 2011 | Report This Post

Destined to be a Classic

Unless you count "The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town" and "Yogi, the Easter Bear", there isn't a lot for programmers to throw on Disney, HBO Family, or any other 500 other cable channels for Easter, so maybe it isn't as clever as Nanny McPhee, Despicable Me, Gnomeo and Juliet, Toy Story 3, Shrek 4, Megamind, Tangled, etc, and maybe the story had whiiskers when "The Prince and the Pauper" came out, a hundred odd years ago, and maybe the way EB makes jelly beans disg... More

Posted by Moviewraithe at 06:18, 05 April 2011 | Report This Post

LOL

I watched this with my unlimited films cineworld card to kill time before Suckerpunch started, I also saw Source code that day I love cinema. Any way this is basically a christmas formula applied to easter and even a flying easter sleigh that fly's pulled by chicks that delivers candy and chocolate eggs to gardens around the world. ... More

Posted by Bighousewill at 14:48, 03 April 2011 | Report This Post

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