Hop(2011)

Plot Summary

• On the Easter Island, a young intelligent talking rabbit named E.B. is intended to succeed his father, Mr. Bunny, as the Easter Bunny in their family's dynasty. Intimidated by the calling's demands and ignoring his father's orders, E.B. runs away to Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a rock-n-roll drummer and hop musician. Mr. Bunny sends his three ninja-agent royal guards, the Pink Berets, to track his son. Meanwhile, the Easter Chickens Carlos and Phillip (who are Mr. Bunny's second-in-command at the Candyland factory base within the island) plot a coup against Mr. Bunny to take over the Easter organisation.Frederick "Fred" O'Hare lives in Hollywood, Los Angeles with his family. He is a young adult, but a struggling out-of-job slacker and still living with his parents. The parents plan an intervention to pressure Fred out of the house and to "get a job".At Van Nuys, E.B. is accidentally run over by Fred O'Hare, who was driving to his sister Sam's boss' house which he is house-sitting. Sam was helping Fred with a place to live (since Fred was kicked out by his and her parents, and Sam's boss was away on vacation and had asked Sam to house sit). Feigning injury, E.B. persuades Fred to take him in as he recovers, but when E.B. causes mischief, Fred attempts to abandon him in the wilderness. E.B. persuades Fred to help him by claiming to be the Easter Bunny, whom Fred saw in operation in his youth (Fred had actually seen EB's father delivering Easter eggs, twenty years prior). Fred decides to help EB since he truly believes in the Easter Bunny.EB sees the Berets closing in on him and goes to hide inside an office where Fred is having job interview. E.B. enjoys a successful recording session with the Blind Boys of Alabama (They are all blind, so do not realise that EB is a rabbit) as their substitute drummer, but ruins Fred's job interview. In the process, E.B. gets a tip about a possible audition for David "the Hoff" Hasselhoff. Hasselhoff is conducting a new show "Hoff Knows Talent". EB convinces Fred to take him to the audition. EB impresses Hoff, who invites him to perform on his show.The Pink Berets reach the audition with Hoff and again EB runs away with Fred. He explains that he is the Easter Bunny's son and was supposed to take over the family business. But he escaped as his interest was in music. Afterward, Fred attends his adopted younger sister Alex's school Easter pageant with E.B. hiding in a satchel. E.B., alarmed that the Pink Berets have apparently found him due to the three bunny suit shadows on a wall and disgusted by Alex's awful rendition of "(Here Comes) Peter Cottontail", dashes out and disrupts the show. Fred feigns a ventriloquist's act with E.B.'s cooperation as his dummy and they lead the show in singing, "I Want Candy".Fred's father, Henry, and Alex are angry about the upstaging, but Fred is inspired to become the "Easter Man" himself. E.B. is skeptical, but he agrees to train the human and finds that Fred has some genuine talent for it. As the Pink Berets close in on him, E.B. prepares a decoy to fake his death (using a turkey and his spare jacket) and leaves for Hasselhoff's show. The Berets see the decoy and think that Fred has stewed EB. They capture Fred and take him to Easter Island. Fred is held captive and confronted by Mr. Bunny and Carlos about killing E.B. Carlos pretends to be upset about E.B.'s death, and silences Fred (who tries to reveal the truth of the decoy). But afterwards we traps the rabbits with, commands the chicks to rebel, and seizes control of the Easter factory.Meanwhile, at the Hoff Knows Talent live show, E.B. is in his dressing room preparing for his performance but his reflection begins to berate him for acting selfish and leaving Fred. Just then a production assistant arrives to tell him that he is next to perform. E.B. leaves his dressing room and begins to feel guilty about leaving Fred so he discusses the situation with Hasselhoff, who advises him to go back and help his friend. E.B. finds evidence of Fred's capture and races back East to the factory. He confronts Carlos but is immobilised in jelly-gum candy and tossed into the chocolate bunny carving line. Fred and Mr. Bunny are tied up with black licorice and are to be boiled alive, but Fred manages to free themselves by eating away the licorice and E.B. survives by dodging the blades. Carlos, now transformed into a massive chick-bunny hybrid creature due to the magic of The Egg of Destiny (a magical crystal staff used by The Easter Bunny which he stole to absorb its magical power), engages battle with E.B. and knocks him out easily due to his size and strength and then attempts to lead the Egg Sleigh out with Phil directing with light up wands.To prevent the launch, E.B. improvises a drum session. Uncontrollably driven to dance to the beat, Phil provides the wrong signals, causing a crash and Carlos is subdued. After being defeated, Carlos is punished to pull the Egg sleigh and a reformed Phil is made the new head of the Easter Chicks. E.B. then apologises to his father for his selfishness, and he and Fred are made "co-Easter Bunnies" and take over the job. Fred's family is now proud that he has a job and responsibilities.After the credits, E.B. and Fred are shown in China delivering an Easter basket to the same woman who had previously attacked Mr. Bunny earlier in the film.

Storyline

• Blending state-of-the-art animation with live action, Hop tells the comic tale of Fred, an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world's worst house guest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up. — Universal Pictures More than anything in the world, E.B., the teenage son of the famous Easter Bunny, yearns to be a successful rock'n'roll drummer, despite his father's wish to take over Easter Island's candy and coloured eggs factory. As a result, E.B. having high hopes of making it big, goes on a trip to sunny Hollywood, where an unforeseen complication will soon lead to an unlikely alliance with the thirty-something slacker, Fred. However, as man and cartoon try to find the perfect career, something strange disrupts Easter Island's peace. Will E.B. choose fame over family tradition? — Nick Riganas Fred O'Hare and E.B. have both disappointed their respective parents. In Los Angeles, Fred is a slacker who hasn't worked in a year, has one excuse or another for not working, and has moved back home much to his parents' chagrin. His father, Henry O'Hare, in particular, values success and achievement making Fred the disappointment of the family. On Easter Island, E.B., a talking rabbit who was the next in line to become the Easter Bunny after his father, instead just wants to hang out in his bedroom in their comfortable house playing the drums, he finding the pressure associated with being the next Easter Bunny too much to handle. Fred and E.B. meet after Fred has been kicked out of the house, his sister Sam offering him her boss's mansion which she was supposed to house sit as his temporary abode, and as E.B. escapes from Easter Island going to Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a professional drummer. After getting over the incredulity of meeting a talking rabbit, Fred has to deal with the disruption that E.B. adds to his life. But in finding out that E.B. is next in line to become the Easter Bunny which confirms his own childhood remembrance of seeing the Easter Bunny - E.B.'s father - Fred enters into more of a cooperative friendship with E.B. While Fred helps E.B. with one of his goals, Fred thinks he's stumbled upon his destiny: to become the Easter Bunny himself, taking the pressure off of E.B. Factoring into what happens are that the Purple Berets - a platoon of three ninja rabbits - have been dispatched from Easter Island to find and retrieve E.B. using whatever tool they have at their disposal so that he can fulfill his duty for Easter which is fast approaching, and as the Easter Bunny's second-in-command - a chick named Carlos - is planning a coup in he being tired of rabbit sensibilities dictating what happens on Easter. — Huggo E.B. who doesn't want to become the Easter Bunny goes to Los Angeles, Hollywood. Meeting a man named Fred O'Hare he asks him to fulfill his dream of becoming a drummer. To keep the Easter tradition running Fred decides to become the first Human Easter Bunny. 1 more All