The ads for Hop tout it as the new picture from the creators of Despicable Me ; what they really mean is that it’s from the director of Alvin and the Chipmunks and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties . That would be Tim Hill, and his work in has none of the special charms of Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s cheerfully disreputable concoction. Hop features no misanthropic baldies, no dead-guy pancakes, no cradles made of discarded missiles. All we get is a runaway rabbit and a grown-up who’s too lazy to get a real job. Talk about bait-and-switch.
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REVIEW: Hop Is as Fresh as a Stale Peep
