Hop

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.

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

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.

It's supposed to be sweet, but "Hop" is a headache waiting to happen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

Hop will win audiences over with its goofy charm.

Despite some surface appeal, it is as hollow in the center as a chocolate rabbit.

A fairly undistinguished but pleasant and easy-to-take holiday movie, with slow spots and silly spots and a handful of moments of inspiration.

All in all, it's hard to know for whom "Hop" is made.

Presented with the opportunity to do the first-ever big-budget Easter bunny flick mixing live action and animation, "Hop" gives us . . . a bunny who poops jelly beans.

The whole thing raises questions of the type it is almost embarrassing to contemplate; it's almost like "Donnie Darko," for little kids.

It offers a glimmer of amusement, but only to kids still young enough to believe in the Easter Bunny.

The only thing missing is any real wonder, imagination or comic verve.

Brand does manage to play an obnoxious creature with a kind of charm. He feels like the only person who doesn't need this movie.