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     The Easter Bunny has a teenage son, E.B.  He doesn’t want to deliver the eggs for Easter this year because wants to be a drummer in a rock ‘n’ roll band.  Fred accidentally hits E.B. with his car!!  E.B. plays up his injuries (he doesn’t have any) and he talks to Fred.  The talking totally freaks out Fred and E.B. convinces Fred to take him home.  Fred is a adult jobless slacker and he still lives with his parents!!  His parents and his sister Sam have decided an intervention is needed with Fred.  They’ve told him he has to leave their home, find a job and live on his own.  Sam offers to give Fred the keys to her boss’s home.  He’s away on vacation for two weeks and Sam was supposed to get the mail plus take care of two dogs.  There are a lot of restrictions for Fred to stay in this fabulous home!!  Behind the scenes at Easter Island, the head chick Carlos wants to take E.B.’s place and deliver the eggs on Easter?

     There are some moments that adults will get but children hopefully will not!!  There are some really funny moments!!  Especially when Fred and E.B. are together and back at Easter Island.  There is another animated movie about an animal wanting to play drums, it’s Rock Dog of 2016.  Bodi is a young Tibetan Mastiff and he is expected to be the next guard for the Village of Snow Mountain.  He leaves to meet British rock legend Angus Scattergood.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

95 min, Animation directed by Tim Hill with the actors and voices of James Marsden, Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Gary Cole, Elizabeth Perkins, Hugh Laurie, Tiffany Espensen, David Hasselhoff, Chelsea Handler, Carlease Burke, Veronica Alicino, Django Marsh, Jimmy Carter.

Note:  Imdb 5.5 out of 10, 25% critic 53% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 881 reviews, Metacritic 41 out of 100 with 23 critics, 5.1 out of 10 with 74 reviews, Empire Online 2* out of 5*.

Special Note:  Filmed in Los Angeles and Thousand Oaks, California.  There are 92 different companies with product placement spots in this film!!  Is the most of any film so far?  The legend of the Easter Bunny came from German Christian traditions but popularized by the Brothers Grimm.  It was almost a year between the theater release and home media release and this is one of the longest times for an animated film.  This is the third film in 2011 to go beyond the $100 million mark.  The others were Rango and Just Go With It.  During the film’s release, an E.B. stuffed toy was available from Build-a-Bear and included drumsticks.