You wanna know how lazy Hitpig(!) is? It’s about a bounty hunter pig… which is not a hitpig at all. It’s like they started with a title, realized an assassin pig wouldn’t work for the five year olds, but didn’t want to rename it when they made the pig a bounty hunter instead.
Because, yeah, Jason Sudeikis voices the titular hitpig who has to retrieve an elephant for a circus ringmaster. And life lessons are learned over a tumultuous tidal wave of generic needle drops, weird easy-to-cut scenarios, and a lot of bad improv. Or maybe it’s just a bad script and everyone is a victim of the screenwriter.
Jason Sudeikis is the best mustache to pile on great line readings of great jokes… just not in this film. I’m gonna assume he was in it for the paycheck because the guy who made Ted Lasso great has got to be better than this material.
Nothing works in this terribly boring, redundant, unfunny randomized piece of kiddie garbage. I guess if I was being nice I’d say the animation and art is fine…. better than I would expect from the story and comedy.
I had to stop glaring at my friend’s kid for picking this one for us to watch. It’s enough for me to apologize to other animated flicks I’ve hated this year, the good and the bad. So instead of hating a child, I’ll hate this movie instead.
Score: 54