“Hop” features some fantastic wacky environments and imaginative ideas but it’s too bad the script is absolutely terrible and the characters are lacking in common sense.

In “Hop”, we meet E.B. (Russell Brand “Despicable Me”), the Easter Bunny’s (Hugh Laurie “Stuart Little”) teenage son. He doesn’t want to be the Easter Bunny; E.B. wants to be a world-famous drummer. E.B. runs away and to L.A. where he meets Fred O’Hare (James Marsden “X-Men”, “Straw Dogs”). Meanwhile a certain chick named Carlos (Hank Azaria “Godzilla”) is out for the title of Easter Bunny. Fred decides he wants to be the new Easter Bunny but can he along with E.B. stop Carlos and save Easter.

James Marsden is alright as Fred; he could have been a lot worse. Despite the fact the actor is trying I feel the thing that ruins the character is the dialog he is given and the fact he’s in this movie. E.B. is voiced horribly by Russell Brand (who also sadly gets a live-action cameo). I hate it when E.B. makes jellybeans come out of his backside. Neither Hank Azaria nor Hugh Laurie can save this picture. The scenes with David Hasselhoff just feel like he’s paid them for advertising space. The rest of the characters were rubbish.

“Hop” is children’s film about Easter but it also feels like a big advert for both David Hasselhoff and the Playboy mansion. The film has good parts to it and I’m sure the factory on Easter Island will please young children but the film isn’t funny and any parent watching this with their child will be looking at their watch after twenty minutes or so. I wouldn’t be so surprised if the child asked about the duration of the picture as well. The humour is weak, the script is bad and the special effects aren’t impressive.