Hank and Mike (2008)

Powerful

Memorable, crazy movie

Great Film overall

Best movie ever!

The story starts out rather cleverly on Easter morning. It contrasts roommates, Hank and Mike on how they spend the night of their biggest day in their career. Mike is fast asleep in bed while Hank smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and abuses himself to a scrambled porno movie. Clearly they are the "odd couple." As fate would have it, they miss the last house on their route (they do a lot of breaking and entering). Since the company has opted to downsize, they find themselves out of a job. Now Easter Bunnies in the workforce is a funny thing. They work for UPS, but hide the packages. They work for a school and serve the kids chocolate. Unfortunately their work failures due to being an Easter Bunny is in the form of a montage and not really exploited to its comic potential. After Hank pawns Mike's Golden Egg award, the movie becomes dark as each one must now deal with their failure resorting to drink and drugs. The bunny aspect no longer plays a role as they become any two losers and the movie becomes boring. It remains boring up until the very end when they devise a plan to get their jobs back. Nudity, language, simulated sex (mostly in the first half). Decent soundtrack.

I tried to watch this on TV today. Based on some user comments, I was expecting to laugh. Big mistake. I watched the first 20 minutes of this movie without even a smile.. nothing is funny in it. You see the 2 guys in bunny suits on the movie cover? Well, they never take those suits off. Being an Easter bunny it's supposed to be their job, but the movie makes them some sort of human-in-pink-bunny-suit hybrid. So, how are the jokes with 2 bunny-guys? They shower in their suits, the use deodorant on top of the suits, they have a special bunny-room at work, and they seem to have sexual relationship with normal (non-bunny) women. I don't know how could anyone find this funny.I'll go spoil some more 'jokes'. The company they work for advertises 'sponsored suicide'. One kid doesn't get her Easter candy, and this is all over the news - swap channels on TV, it's all about how the kid didn't get her sweets. Oh how funny. NOT! Obviously, the 2 stars of this movie missed the kid's house. And they get fired. Oh my God they fired some Easter bunnies. This was also supposed to be funny. Soon after this scene I remembered I was supposed to watch a 'comedy' and have some laughs. So I turned off the TV. This movie wasn't worth the 30 minutes I wasted on it. The reason I decided to write a review (I rarely do this): I was tricked in watching this movie by user comments in IMDb and it's grade of 5.8. I thought, a comedy with 5.8 can't be that bad. So I'm here to rate this movie what it's worth.

With its unusual premise of a company that owns all American holidays and hires seasonal employees to be Easter bunnies who have the difficult job of delivering chocolate eggs to kids in the middle of the night, this should have been a cute comedy but alas, it fell flat.My sister and I believed the DVD blurbs about it being a clever satire of corporate America and tried to watch it. The vulgarity and the repetitive jokes made that too much of a chore. There is nothing funny about two chain smoking, junk food eating, depressed people who are out of work. It should have come as no surprise to either Mike or Hank, since they were abusive to their fellow employees and sexually harassed every woman in the office. Characters can be sympathetic losers if they are lovable losers (as Bobcat Goldthwait was in HOT TO TROT). We could stand about a half hour of HANK AND MIKE and no more. I was sorry I rented it and still am!

Hank and Mike is a pretty smart offering - off-beat, but on message, this is comedy with a heart as black as 100% pure cocoa: a sweetened center tempered with bitterness.Cynical, surreal, and surprisingly insightful if you enjoyed Office Space you should enjoy this - it's kind of a mix of Bad Santa and Office Space with more that a small touch of the Odd Couple.The alternative reality stuff was saved from being Elf-like by the booze, cigarettes, and foul-language; bless'em. There are only so many jokes about Easter bunnies that work, so they're avoided in the main, though the ones used are good too.The humor is tight and a remarkably good satire emerges. It fails to be a total success, but as a quirky comedy with a gooey satirical center it flies.An Easter Egg of a movie: didn't expect much but we laughed a lot.Recommended.