Get egg-cited for some non-denominational, animated Easter fun: cute family flick Rabbit Academy is currently screening in Australian cinemas.
You may not know that this German-made production is actually a sequel. With the subheading “Mission Eggpossible” (I prefer my pun in the sentence above TBH), it returns to the long-eared, pastel-coloured characters of an earlier film Rabbit Academy: Guardians of the Golden Egg.
Forsaking any messiahs and crucifixions in favour of loopy original world-building, Rabbit Academy will send young viewers through a rabbit hole and into a complex world where beautifully-decorated Easter eggs are made. City slicker Max is the first newcomer to distribute the eggs from a community of clucky hens, atop Chicken Mountain.
Meanwhile, a family of sly foxes (are foxes ever anything but sly and villainous?) are scheming to take control of the whole operation themselves. The final frames of the cutesy trailer below seem to show everybody working together, though, with some grand eggy common goal in mind.
It ain’t a Pixar or Dreamworks masterpiece, but Rabbit Academy certainly looks lively and diverting enough to keep little critters entertained over the school holidays. The voice cast features mostly unknown talent, dubbing the original European production into American-accented English.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this is some cheap modern-day creation, though: Mission Eggpossible and the first film in the series are both based on a German children’s book written way back in 1924, Die Häschenschule. From Weimar Republic Deutschland to your kid’s screens…
