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Let me start off by saying this movie is not that bad. However, it's also not that good. The first few minutes were spectacular in my opinion. The movie opened with the bustling and vibrant candy factory on Easter Island, and it was so charmingly magical that it put Willy Wonka's factory to shame. Adorable little chicks and bunnies scampered about running the shiny golden machines that created chocolates and marshmallows and all of the delicious treats that boys and girls hope will fill their baskets come Easter morning. It truly was wondrous to behold.
Unfortunately, we don't stay in that fantastical place for very long. The majority of the movie is set in the boring old "real world" that we inhabit every day. And for me, the magic of the movie stopped there. In my opinion, the entire movie should have been animated. It would have been so much better. Instead we get a cartoon rabbit wandering around a dusty Los Angeles pooping jelly beans.
The main character, E.B. (Russell Brand), is the Easter Bunny's son who does not wish to follow in his father's footsteps. Instead of taking over the family business by delivering Easter candy to all the children in the world (except China, which was actually a pretty funny little joke), E.B. wants to be a rock n' roll drummer. So he escapes Easter Island and heads to Hollywood. Soon he finds our human, Fred O'Hare (James Marsden), who is an unemployed twenty-something-year-old house sitting for some rich people. Together they form an unlikely friendship and help one another live their dreams.
The story is cute enough I guess, and Russell Brand's E.B. actually had some really funny lines. His one-liners helped me to watch the whole movie without falling asleep, actually. Unfortunately, everything that happens just never lives up to it's opening scene. Even the end was oddly non-climactic. I heard someone describe this movie as an Easter version of the The Santa Clause. And it really is. Fred O'Hare ends up becoming the Easter Bunny and he even flies around in a sled... It tries so hard to be hip and cool, but the end result is a forgettable family film that never lived up to its potential.
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