Just two days after we saw the first poster, Hop, featuring the voice of Russell Brand as the Easter Bunny, now has a teaser trailer.  He doesn’t speak in it, leaving us to wonder if the Easter Bunny will have Russell Brand’s slightly grating English accent.  I would assume yes, since the bunny plays Blur’s “Song 2,” which is so synonymous with all things British that Micheal Bisping uses it as his UFC walk up song. (Also, hiring Russell Brand to voice a character who isn’t British would be like hiring Gilbert Gottfried to voice one who doesn’t yell).  One thing’s for certain, he’s super cool!  GRRR, SHORT-SLEEVE SHIRTS OVER LONG-SLEEVE SHIRTS, IN YOUR FACE GRANDPA!!!  In all seriousness though, the fact that he’s not wearing sunglasses could go down in history as the most surpising show of restraint in Hollywood history.

Below, Yogi Bear shakes his ass to hip hop.

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Pour out a little Sparks Four Loko Thunderbird for Yogi Bear today, as the surefire critical darling which opens next month has been DISQUALIFIED from the Academy Award animation category.  Can you imagine?  This is like banning Babe Ruth from baseball.  WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS!?

Yogi Bear was thrown into the consideration category [well sure], but here’s the accompanying rule of why it was disqualified. Under Academy rules, for a live action film to be eligible in the animated feature category, “a significant number of the major characters must be animated and animation must figure in no less than 75% of the picture’s running time.”

Although “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” – a mixture of live action and animation – passed the 75% threshold, “Yogi Bear” apparently did not. So the main three players that will probably get the nomination will be Toy Story 3, Megamind and How To Train Your Dragon. [IngeniusProductions]

Looks like you’ve won this round, Kitty Galore.  Yogi Bear was never meant to be corn pigeon holed as *just* an animated film anyway.  An animated Oscar would’ve just taken the focus away from the real goal, winning Best Picture.  I imagine we’ll eventually see a day when Yogi Bear 3D is recognized not just as a great animated movie, or even a great movie, but as a great work of art.

Whoa, Big Momma’s House 3 and Yogi Bear on the SAME DAY??  What God did I please!  But anyway, yeah, it’s a 3D Yogi Bear movie with Justin Timberlake and Dan Aykroyd (nice try disguising your voices there, guys, but you do realize we have Google).  The studios have got appealing to the 6-year-old brain down to a science at this point (anything else would require ambition), which means that this has all the standard elements of every lame children’s film: a fart joke, CGI characters dancing to pop music, and someone getting hit in the butt a bunch of times (all kid movie protagonists spend half the movie smiling at the camera and swinging their butts from side to side, has anyone else noticed this?).

Basically, it’s exactly what you’d expect.  My only question is, where are the semen-filled bears I was promised in the poster?  Don’t tell me I have to wait for Yogi Bare.

Here’s the new trailer for Yogi Bear, WB’s 3d-enizing of the Hannah-Barbera sort-of classic.  If you were in our how-long-will-they-go-before-the-characters-dance-to-hip-hop pool, the folks who had “zero seconds” were the big winners.  Congratulations, Steve in accounting.  Anyway, they paid Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake a bunch of money to provide the voices, and they both do Yogi and Boo-Boo impressions that leave them nearly unrecognizable.  It seems to me kind of like paying Morgan Freeman to read an entire book on tape in a Daffy Duck voice, but at least they managed not to imply that the bears have gay sex this time, so there’s that.

He’s (*fart*)er than the ave-ver-age bear!

[via IGN]

Sorry for the technical issues today, folks.  I’ll be back with a full day of posts tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy the new, incredibly suggestive poster (via CartoonBrew) for Yogi Bear 3D.  Tagline:

“Great things come in bears.”

Bears like Boo Boo, this poster seems to say.  See, Yogi is a “great thing,” and he’s “coming” in a bear, and in this case, that bear is Boo Boo, whom Yogi has mounted from behind.  Jeez, do I have to explain everything to you guys?  For his part, Boo Boo doesn’t seem to mind.  I think they actually ripped off this fake poster I made of Wolverine, back when Disney bought Marvel.  Where’s my money, a-holes?  Ooh, poor choice of words…