Well it may be passed April 1st but April Fools has only just begun as I decided before the 6th movie comes out, I decided to dedicate this month to checking out The Scary Movie franchise, the horror parody films that brought a big impact in parody films (whether positive or negative you're call), gained a cult status, but also brought the decline to the genre for a while. But let's turn back to the clock to when it started it all.

The 90s was filled with horror teen slashers and naturally, The Wayans Brothers came up with an idea spoofing the films with Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th and coincidentally another pair of film makers, Friedberg and Seltzer, were also working on their own with Scream If I Know What You Did Last Halloween, Dimension Films then combined the two, formed it to Scary Movie, and had WGA give them both credit for the film despite The Wayans arguing that Seltzerberg had nothing to do with the final result and given their style in later works, I can believe them though some elements do sense Seltzerberg.

So I'll be honest, there were a lot more jokes I laughed at then I thought I would. Highlights being the Kazaam joke, The Reporter shooting the teens/The Reporters in general, The Drama Queen Teen Pageant joke, The stairs joke, and the theater stabbing jokes did get a chuckle out of me. That being said, there are also a lot of dated and problematic jokes that really don't work usually involving cringy sex scenes, any time Doofy is on screen, or the godawful "Miss Mann" scene, that scene alone lowered the score for this film for me.

The focus parodies on Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer work fine enough although the meta jokes fall flat and the backstory drags out for far too long. I also know its a parody movie with the focus on certain scenes of movies, but Buffy just out of nowhere swapping from friend of Cindy to being a bully and not believing her felt out of nowhere esp when she literally saw her boyfriend get slashed by the same guy so it felt very out of character. I also felt The Matrix parody for the climax felt very "This is 2000 and we gotta parody The Matrix". So again, this def could've been worse but the first entry was honestly fine in itself as I'll witness to quick downfall in quality with its notorious sequels.

Well Easter has come and gone and unlike Christmas, there isn't many Easter movies out there despite this arguably being one of the biggest holidays. Obviously there's the religious movies but I moreso mean movies centered around The Easter Bunny, off the top of my head there's Peter Cottentail, Rise of The Guardians I guess, The Peanuts Easter Beagle Special, idk Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey cause The Easter Bunny from Hell showed up, Those Bunnyman/Easter Bunny Masscare Horor movies, yeah point being there really isn't that many iconic Easter movies out there. I guess that's why, despite its mediocrity, Hop managed to stick in the conversation for Easter movies cause like, wtf else is out there for Easter movies.

Well, this is your basic "my dad wanted me in this role but I want this role instead" type of movie we've seen a thousand times this time starring Russell Brand as E.B. who ran away from Easter Island and met a guy named O'HARE......yes we're in some quality writing here! Anyways, this film is pretty mediocre even by Illumination standards as the worldbuilding is quite odd from Bunnies shitting jellybeans to the rules of how the world reacts to talking rabbits, Fred O'Hare (James Marsden) thinks the world will freakout and yet people act fine with a talking rabbit with a waitress not caring, Hasslehoff making a Knight Rider joke, and a strange joke about China not being into Easter with even a post credits payoff that doesn't really work.

In general the jokes really don't work, we got a random JK Rowling namedrop and if that didn't age worse, we got Russell Brand going to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner, yes yes I know "haha cause playboy bunnies and he's a bunny" but also what 8 year old is gonna get that and why throw Playboy into a PG rated movie (probably the only reason why its PG). The bunny is creepy in general with him sniffing the hair of O'Hare's sister (again poorly casted by Russell Brand).

There really isn't much a plot aside E.B. just fucking around meanwhile a chick named Carlos (Hank Azaria) is second in command and tries to be the new Easter Bunny instead and honestly why not. He makes a good case, and while he's mislead by a choice of bird seeds/worms, he would've learned, and again E.B. doesn't want the job but he gets brushed off and eventually has this last minute villain arc that gets dealt with quickly because E.B.'s father is very strict about the role having to be a bunny and even the powers will turn the chick into a half bunny breed.........anyways not 3 minutes after this O'Hare becomes a co-Easter Bunny making that whole arc as pointless as the boss mansion watch that O'Hare had to do that goes nowhere.

So yeah, Hop is very mediocre with lackluster jokes, poorly aged elements, and just very poor predictable writing we've seen before. And yet, because of the small amount of actual Easter movies that come out, Hop manages to stick around and still be played on Easter because wtf else is out there for kids on Easter that isn't a religious flick. Well, hopefully in the future, people try to bring more effort in an Easter film for one that truly deserves the timeless slot rather than hopping in due to luck.