Props, though, to the WTF musical interlude featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2023

Kids will love Brand's frenetic drumming take on E.B., adults will love that there are a few clandestine adult jokes.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2011

Perfectly pleasant, funny, if unexceptional Easter holiday movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2011

Hop is the kind of movie that makes helpless critics wish we could stage an intervention. Parents! It doesn't have to come to this!

| Original Score: D- | Apr 12, 2011

The film is bright and breezy and the animation is first rate. Some of the jokes are lame, and it's more a film for younger, and less sophisticated children.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2011

For the most part it tries too hard, lurching from one plot contrivance to another and never giving any of its cast (apart from the heroically hard-working Marsden) much to do.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2011

Gone are the days of childlike mystery, and in their place we have the childish Hop.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 4, 2011

It's a combination of the worst movies about trouble in Santa Claus's north pole toy factory and a version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lethally laced with sugar.

| Apr 4, 2011

The bunny-gets-injured, slacker-saves-Easter plotline doesn't pack too much predictability but Brand does his best with the material and it's cute enough for kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2011

The lack of any comparable reality check will make this one an endurance test for most people who aren't five.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2011

Other than some truly obnoxious and out of place sexual innuendos that serve no purpose and have no reason to be in the film other than to help it achieve a PG rating, this is a picture unashamedly geared towards little kids under the age of ten.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2011

As fake and forgettable as a marshmallow Peep, "Hop" goes down easy enough. It's the thought of a talented actor stuck on an industry conveyor belt that leaves an unfortunate aftertaste.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2011

Hop is spectacularly charmless -- there's no spring in its step. The last thing we need is an Easter movie that comes limping down the bunny trail.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 1, 2011

Though the integration of live action and animation is improving (especially a scene where E.B. cuddles with Fred's sister), it's still a slightly disorienting experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2011

Hop is just too shrill, slick and sickly sweet for anybody's good. Watching it won't rot your teeth, but it could leave an ugly cavity in your brain.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 1, 2011

Hop is a hodge-podge of a movie in which stretches of dull subplots and narrative stagnation are broken up by an occasional good laugh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2011

A fun and funny mix of live action and animation that puts the hop back into Easter.

| Apr 1, 2011

Flop would be closer.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2011

Hop integrates animated characters into live-action settings, relying on director Tim Hill to handle the logistics of convincingly blending both worlds.

| Apr 1, 2011

It may be okay for kids under 10 but this anodyne movie will try the patience of the family audience for whom it strives mightily.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2011