Hop: Film Review
"Hop" delivers plenty of wit, verve and surreal mayhem to entice even the post-adolescent crowd into this jolly (and strangely Christmas-like) Easter egg hunt.
Easter movies have never had the same cache at the box office as Christmas movies but Universal and the minds behind Despicable Me -- meaning Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment — want to change all that in a skip, jump and Hop. Imaginatively combining live action with digital animation, Hop delivers a story that slyly borrows from Santa Claus mythology as well as Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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