... let’s not forget: Hop is still in theaters, and will soon be coming to DVD.
It’s like the terrorists have already won.
For a second opinion, see my “Reel Faith” co-host David DiCerto’s 30-second review of Hop:
Print Edition: June 16, 2013
Print Edition: June 16, 2013
... let’s not forget: Hop is still in theaters, and will soon be coming to DVD.
It’s like the terrorists have already won.
For a second opinion, see my “Reel Faith” co-host David DiCerto’s 30-second review of Hop:
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Sounds this movie will have its second run in hell.
David B: At least it will have a good long run in Heck.
On another note, I see that David D. and I both used air quotes in our reviews. Coincidence?
RE the headline: Are you sure it’s a good idea to compare a kids’ movie, no matter how inept, to a man responsible for the deaths of thousands of people?
Tyler P: No.
FWIW, in my defense:
1. Hop isn’t just inept; it’s (a) anti-Christ-ian (“4000 years” of Easter tradition); (b) polluted (the Playboy mansion / sexy bunny jokes); and (c) “an act of aggression against childhood,” in the apt words of a critic I quoted in my full review. It made me angrier than any family film I can think of since G-Force, and probably more than that.
2. After a decade of use and abuse, I think the “terrorists have won” saw is pretty toothless. It’s a preposterous hyperbole, funny precisely because it’s been so overused.
“HOP…is SLOP!” I like that.
When you said “second opinion,” I was expecting a positive review from Mr. DiCerto. But it seems to be the same opinion without the rhyme.
As for bin Laden, it’s worth pointing out that people who are using his death as an excuse to party are acting contrary to the teaching and practice of Christ.
Pachyderminator:
1. Thanks!
2. Isn’t it a good thing when the second opinion confirms the first?
3. Yes. I have been pointing that out all morning, on Facebook. I’m happy to have it pointed out here.
I appreciate DiCerto’s Kerouac-esque delivery. It’s a nice contrast to the rhymed review without going full Ginsberg (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by bunnies, pooping hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the pagan streets on Easter looking for a candy fix…”).
P.S. Mr. DiCerto and I have an unnerving habit of agreeing with one another. It’s one of our main challenges doing “Reel Faith”: We lack the drama of robust critical disagreement.
By the way, Victor, I laughed harder at your comment than at SDG’s review. :)
Victor: Thanks! I needed a break from the rhyming couplets—and they’re just so hard to write—but I didn’t want to abandon the rhyming device entirely, so I tried a sort of rhyme-laden prose / free verse approach here, and I’m reasonably pleased with the results. I used a similar approach with There Be Dragons, coming Friday. (I’ll have several new 30-second spots in the next few days.)
Of course the down side to doing free verse is that it’s really hard to sample and set to a beat, but hey, them’s the breaks.
P.S. Pachy: Victor’s brilliant comments often have the effect of overshadowing their immediate context. I’ve been laughing for months over “Death Wears a Fez.”
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