Hop, Russell Brand: Film review

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    Chris Tookey
    Last updated at 8:28 AM on 1st April 2011

     

    Verdict: A flop





    Rating: 1 Star Rating

    All you really need to know about Hop — a godforsaken mixture of live action humans with animated rabbits — is that it’s brought to you by the same geniuses who gave us Alvin And The Chipmunks.

    Poor, hapless James Marsden gurns and pratfalls his way through this excellent argument for myxomatosis as he’s recruited to become the new Easter Bunny, in place of the old EB’s son, who wants to be a rock drummer.

    A flop: Hop is a godforsaken mixture of live action humans with animated rabbits

    A flop: Hop is a godforsaken mixture of live action humans with animated rabbits

    The abject script is a hackneyed rip-off of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and, unaccountably, Alvin And The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel. 

     

    The central playboy bunny is voiced by Russell Brand with all the charm of a dead rodent in a swimming pool.

    Didn’t Easter use to have some kind of religious significance? Here, it’s any notion of family entertainment that is crucified.

    Latest role: Russell Brand is the voice of the central playboy bunny

    Latest role: Russell Brand is the voice of the central playboy bunny

     

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