Story
Students of the Rabbit Academy eagerly await news of who’ll be chosen to become Master Rabbits. When the golden egg finally reveals that one of the chosen is a city rabbit named Max (voice of Callum Maloney), not everyone is happy. Emmy (voice of Lucy Carolan), however, couldn’t be more pleased and can hardly wait until she can see her friend again.
Meanwhile, in the city, Max defends a small rabbit who’s being bullied by Leo (voice of Cameron Simpson), a nasty, selfish, self-made media sensation. When Max accidentally destroys the stage for Leo’s next social media broadcast and ‘borrows’ Leo’s bike, Leo vows revenge and follows Max to the countryside.
Here Leo teams up with a dysfunctional family of foxes, who want to outsmart the rabbits and become Easter foxes, beloved by all. Leo, on the other hand, just wants to sabotage Easter and destroy all the eggs the Rabbit Academy has been preparing.
When Ferdinand (voice of Jonas Elkhawad), the cleverest and kindest of the foxes, learns what Leo is really planning, his family won’t believe him. Ferdinand heads to the Rabbit Academy to help save the holiday. But will the academy rabbits trust him? Will working together be enough to save Easter?
Themes
Dysfunctional family environments; the loss of magical power; revenge; bullying; betrayal; selfishness
Violence
Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible has some violence. For example:
- Leo grabs a little girl bunny by the ears and violently threatens her for blowing bubbles during his video clip.
- Max takes Leo’s bike and rides it through his stunt set-up. He accidentally destroys the set-up before riding off with the bike.
- Foxes chase Max and Emmy through the woods, threatening to eat them. They’re closing in until one hits his head on a tree and the other crashes into a door.
- The foxes capture Leo and try to cook him before he tricks them into following his plan.
- Max drives a motorbike onto the roof of the Rabbit Academy. Both he and the bike fall off the roof and crash to the ground.
- A cave-in crushes an egg and destroys the machine that moves the eggs down the mountain.
- An instructor, Max and Emmy fight the foxes. There’s kicking, punching and pushing before the foxes escape down a hole.
- A rock falls onto the instructor’s leg and injures it during the cave-in. Emmy and Max escape just in time.
- There’s a story about Leo’s time at the Rabbit Academy. He abandoned a classmate in a trap in the woods. The classmate was found just before the foxes got him.
- A chicken’s eggs are thrown off a mountain to test a machine that’s being used to save Easter.
- A flying plunger hits Leo in the face.
- Max rigs a catapult to aim paint at Leo and the foxes, who are climbing the mountain to steal the eggs.
- Emmy and the foxes fall off the mountain and land in a heap on the forest floor.
- Emmy is kidnapped and held hostage. The rabbits are told that if they do anything to retaliate, ‘their little friend will be fox fodder’.
- Ferdinand and Max pick up a large log and throw it at Ferdinand’s brothers, trapping them in their house.
- One of the foxes is hit with a stick.
- The rabbits try to knock Leo off the flying drone he’s using to steal and smash the eggs and crush the golden egg.
- A fox picks up a young rabbit and everyone turns on him, ready to chase him down and attack.
Sexual references
There are no sexual references in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible.
Alcohol, drugs and other substances
There’s no use of substances in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible.
Nudity and sexual activity
There’s no nudity and sexual activity in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible.
Product placement
There’s no product placement in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible.
Coarse language
There’s some coarse language in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible, including ‘bad ass’, ‘dummy bunny’, ‘crap’, ‘idiot’, ‘dimwit’, ‘darn it’ and ‘pest’.
Ideas to discuss with your children
Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible is an animated adventure with bright, colourful graphics and a fairly predictable plot. The storyline and animation style is aimed at a younger audience, but the coarse language and name-calling make it inappropriate for younger viewers.
The main message from Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible is that trust and unity give you and your community strength and power you never dreamed you could possess.
Values in Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible that you could reinforce with your children include teamwork, compassion, helpfulness, hope, creativity and forgiveness.
Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible could also give you the chance to talk with your children about the real-life consequences of behaviour like:
- seeking revenge and betraying others
- judging others based on how they look rather than who they are
- using social media in negative ways
- taking what doesn’t belong to you
- bullying others.