Tame bunny tale 'Hop' skips into blandness

"Hop" has one of the cutest bunnies you'll ever see and lots of eye candy among its other visual computer generated, but there is not much bounce in the history of this buddy comedy interspecific .

Let bad-boy Russell Brand offers the voice of the Easter Bunny seems to be a promising way to add spice to a warm and fuzzy family film. Too bad the movie winds up almost as tasteless as jelly beans flavored carrots.

His feeling sticky and wacky gags are likely to appeal only to very young children. The filmmakers travel on their attempts to inject a scattered few trendy to "hop" for older children and parents (just over a rabbit apparently cooked in a pot is treated to lukewarm, it registers as an allusion to lukewarm for cooked rabbit in "Fatal Attraction", while a few riffs Hugh Hefner, Playboy Bunny are just sad).

Directed by Tim Hill, a veteran at mixing live action and digital animation to 'Alvin and the Chipmunks "and" Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, "" Hop skip and jump from the imaginary country of the island of Easter (location scouting smart, huh) - where rabbits and chicks-candy holidays - and the human world of Fred O'Hare (intelligent character's name, eh)?.

Fred (James Marsden) is a lazy adult living with his parents, who dog to find a job and get out. As a boy, Fred glimpsed prohibits the Easter Bunny makes his rounds, and his fate seems linked to the field of rabbits.

It is not the only disappointment of his parents. Down under: Easter Island, the young EB (Expressed by brand) is about to take over the family business from his father, the Easter Bunny (Hugh Laurie). But dreams of becoming a drummer EB rock 'n' roll and flees to Hollywood to follow his bliss rabbit.