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Somehow, Someone Has Made Russell Brand Adorable

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (25)

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When news broke a while back that James Marsden (X-Men, Pineapple Express, 27 Dresses — How’s that for a resume) would be be starring in Hop, a movie about a guy that hits the Easter Bunny with his car and then has to somehow save Easter, I was skeptical. Then I learned it was one of those live-action/animation hybrids, and I started getting annoyed. Then I found out that it also stars Kaley Cuoco, the pretty-yet-vapid blondling from “The Big Bang Theory” and “8 Simple Rules Why No, You Can’t Make John Ritter Jokes You Insensitive Fuckwit,” and I threw my hands up in the air.

Then, I found out that it stars Russell freaking Brand (who I enjoyed in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but have hated in near-everything else) as the Easter Bunny’s voice, and is directed by the guy who wrote “Spongebob Squarepants” and directed Alvin And The Chipmunks and a Garfield sequel, and I knew we’d entered some sort of fucked up kiddie movie Twilight Zone.

This movie… it is not meant to be.

And fucking THEN, I saw this:

Well, shit. Now I’ve circled back to interested again, mixed with a teensy smidge of “awww.” This trailer was the smartest decision the producers could have made.

Bloody hell.









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Comments

Genius!

Posted by: AlwaysSunnyinNJ at November 24, 2010 10:35 AM

This is gonna be bad. REALLY bad. It'll make good money, sure. But not showing one second of the actual film in your trailer is a shitty appetizer to the Poopsgiving dinner that will end up being this movie. Based on this alone, I'd rather watch Alvin and the Chipmunks in a theater filled with drunk children where the projection screen is made of my family's skin than watch this.

Posted by: Kballs at November 24, 2010 10:37 AM

But maybe the rabbit isn't Russell Brand. Maybe the rabbit in the trailer was James Marsden after he gets turned into a bunny so he can carry out the responsibilities. I mean, the eyes are more akin to Marsden's. And the clothes as well.

In which case, Russell Brand still isn't adorable.

Posted by: shanmarie at November 24, 2010 10:38 AM

OK, I've seen all of the movie I wanted to see.

And I thought my attention span for the Apollo 18 "movie" was short. It's pretty bad when you've seen the poster or the trailer and decide that you've seen the whole thing and that's enough.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 24, 2010 10:44 AM

Teehee. This makes me picture my own rabbit sitting on a drum stool staring at the drumset. Which is adorable. :-)

Posted by: KatSings at November 24, 2010 10:54 AM

Russell Brand is, actually, adorable. DID YOU READ HIS BOOK? So cute. He might look like he has ALL the diseases, but he is, in essence, a super adorable and surprisingly verbally fluent man. Cane me if you like, my opinion stands.

Posted by: coveredinbees at November 24, 2010 10:58 AM

I blame American white women for making Russell Brand seem adorable. It all started with Mel Gibson when he did “Mad Max,” and white women haven’t looked back since. Me personally I can’t understand a word that those fuckin’ Brits say anyway, motherfuckers talk like that got marbles in their mouths. You name me one foreign male actor that you don’t need an interpreter to understand what fuck they’re talking about? It’s getting to the point that I’ve got to use closed caption just to watch motherfuckin’ teevee.

Posted by: Pookie at November 24, 2010 11:02 AM

Pookie, you do know that Mel is Australian and not British, right?
Also, that's a cute rabbit. I don't know if Russel Brand is ever going to be as cute as that bunny.

Posted by: JenVegas at November 24, 2010 11:17 AM

Yes JenVegas, I know all about Mel. The reason I thought of Mel was because he was probably one of the first foreigners to come here and make it big in the movies, he, like most foreigners I can’t understand a word he says. The fucking guy has his own church, and he has about twenty kids. So Mel is ground zero for you white women that love those foreigners. I really don’t have a problem with Mel, I kinda feel sorry for him. It is too bad that his current wife got sideways with him, now she’s trying to get all of his money. She shouldn’t be able to get a damn thing, the only thing she came into the marriage with was her pussy, and that’s all she should be able to leave with.

Posted by: Pookie at November 24, 2010 11:35 AM

Is this some kind of joke, TK? A rabbit playing the drums while making the "Dreamworks face" is not cute. I think it's pretty annoying, actually.

Posted by: mc at November 24, 2010 1:45 PM

Pineapple Express? Marsden wasnt on that movie! That was James Franco.

This movie will suck, IMO, but who knows? Im in the mood for being surprised, and I'm definitely going to watch it... because of Jimmy, you know.

Posted by: Cam at November 24, 2010 3:56 PM

That song makes me stabby.

Posted by: MonkeyHateClean at November 24, 2010 4:25 PM

Coveredinbees,

AHAHAHAAAA, "...ALL the diseases..." snort

Posted by: Shonda at November 24, 2010 5:51 PM

Mel Gibson is American.

Posted by: Eep at November 24, 2010 6:07 PM

You Americans love drummers, don't ya?

I mean, the Cadbury ad, with the gorilla doing the solo from In The Air Tonight, was pretty good. But you play that ad to most Americans and they just plain lose it! It's like some sort of switch gets flipped. ::Disengage Brain! FIST PUMP!::

It's just a rabbit, animated to Blur. How does this affect how good the movie will be one way or the other?

And Alvin and the Chipmunks was shit, utter, unadulterated feces.

Posted by: What An A**hole! at November 24, 2010 6:19 PM

Russell Brand is...in essence, a super adorable and surprisingly verbally fluent man.

-Posted by: coveredinbees

Admittedly, the only thing I've seen him in was when he appeared in the recent Monty Python documentary "Almost The Truth", and he was extremely inarticulate. In the I've-got-nothing-to-say-but-I'm-going-to-say-it-anyway sense. I also recall he said WOW a lot. And a lot of giggling.

Posted by: Groundloop at November 24, 2010 7:04 PM

No rotting zombies, no human centipede segments, no fat black women... Who are you, and what the fuck have you done with TK?

Posted by: Uriah Creep at November 24, 2010 11:37 PM

"You name me one foreign male actor that you don’t need an interpreter to understand what fuck they’re talking about?"

Man in Australia we make jokes about how dumb Americans are for needing closed captions to understand people speaking English. There was even a sketch on the chaser about it.

But it was a joke, we didn't actually think there were people that stupid.

Posted by: Ben at November 24, 2010 11:56 PM

Apparently, link no workee. Here's the URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDFFQxawxI

Posted by: Dill The Devil at November 26, 2010 6:35 AM

@Dill The Devil, wow that video was fascinating. What struck me the most is how similar his line of reasoning and argument is to certain groups in the United States.

* the liberal media
* institutional racism against white people per affirmative action measures
* anti-immigration

Really, just fascinating. Thank you for sharing this.

Posted by: Hayden Tompkins at November 26, 2010 9:40 AM

No problem - glad you found it interesting!

Depressingly, since that programme was filmed (2002), the BNP has gained ground (if only minutely) in some areas of the UK.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at November 26, 2010 10:45 AM

Mel Gibson was a fantastic actor. It is too bad what has happened to him. I do not think his career will come back again.

Posted by: Jazmin Dart at December 4, 2010 3:17 PM

that it'd be alright

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