There is plenty to enjoy about Universal’s Hop, which stars James Marsden (The Notebook, Enchanted), features animated Easter Bunny shenanigans, and opens Friday. Don’t expect a great movie, because this innocuously pleasant movie trails off without a point, but kids (including young children) and adults alike will probably get a kick out of Hop. Marsden, an underrated and versatile actor, plays an unemployed adult still living at his parents’ house. When the Easter Bunny-to-be pops up, having been properly introduced as an aspiring drummer at his home on Easter Island, the pair try to simultaneously achieve their goals, with the rabbit auditioning for David Hasselhoff after jamming the blues and Marsden’s job-seeker trying to fulfill what he calls his destiny. It doesn’t entirely work, with plotting so loose that the ending falls flat, and Hop would have been better had the writer(s) stuck with the theme that humans make the best Easter Bunny, but with a colorful candy factory, humor at the expense of the fascist TSA, and a proletarian villain right out of a Madison, Wisconsin (or, today, central London) union protest, Hop lays a few Easter eggs.
