Parents' Guide to Easter Land

Easter Land is by any standards really bad. It begins with a questionable premise, that the holiday of Easter is as important to fun-loving children as the holiday of Christmas. If Bad Clyde wants to mess with Easter, why can't he distribute rotten eggs all over the world without troubling himself over the Easter Bunny? And Clyde is certainly thinking small. If he wants to have a real impact, why doesn't he upend the Big One, Christmas? Santa's and his reindeer's involvement here seems, at best, odd, especially when he airs his own dislike of Easter because at Easter time, "it means our Christmas season is long over" and it'll be months before it comes back around.

Characters mostly say the same things over and over to each other. The animated sets are brought back over and over, all of this leading to the distinct feeling that nothing much is happening here. And it isn't. At one point, everyone agrees to a party and then the party doesn't happen. Most of the characters just seem to be constantly chewing, their mouth movements independent of any dialogue. Perhaps a low budget prevented hiring decent writers for a good story, or voice actors who don't all speak in a slow singsong, or better animators to provide the kind of action this sorely lacks. With all those key ingredients missing, this is just a repetitive, visually dull, poorly executed dud. And apart from the reference in the title, there doesn't seem to be an Easter Land.