Hop

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

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

Perfectly pleasant, funny, if unexceptional Easter holiday movie.

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!

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.

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.

The film also finally tells us where those jelly beans come from.

Watching great movies is what makes life worth living. Hop is not one of those movies. Far from it. Far ... far from it.

Crude humor in a movie aimed at children is a deal-breaker, but Playboy bunny jokes are lazy even in movies for adults.

Director Tim Hill and the assortment pack of writers on the live action/animation hodgepodge "Hop" fully embrace the far-fetched ridiculousness of their loony, family-friendly jaunt down the bunny trail.