Hitpig!

Hitpig is a pig and a bounty hunter. He is hired by abusive Leapin' Lord of the Leotard to find his lost elephant Pickles which was freed by animal rights activist Letícia dos Anjos.

This is an animated movie from a lesser British studio. There is a lot to nitpick and I don't really want to. I don't always like Hitpig and it doesn't start off well for him. Quite frankly, I rather make it a movie about Pickles and start with him. There is certainly a lot of crazy colorful adventures. I like the elephant. The movie is restrained by how abusive LLL can actually be. He does get real crazy at the end. All the little problems do add up.

I laughed a good amount of times, so the comedy was there for sure. That stuff was enjoyable but the overall plot was somewhat boring in my opinion. I felt like they stole from finding Nemo with the marlin and dory personalities. I couldn't shake some of the resemblance. Maybe its just me. Honestly not horrible and the comedy helped but somewhat uninteresting overall.

Watched on app with Heather on 8-15-2025.

This movie was a complete disappointment. From start to finish, it was packed with cringe-worthy one-liners and forced humor that just didn't land. The characters felt hollow, with no personality beyond ignorance and shallow stereotypes, making it impossible to connect with them in any meaningful way.

I brought my five-year-old, hoping for a fun family experience, but within 30-35 minutes, she turned to me and asked to leave because, in her words, "this movie is taking too long." When even a young child can't stay interested, you know there's a problem. I've sat through some rough movies before without walking out, but this one really tested my patience.

Honestly, I don't understand how there could be any positive reviews out there. This movie was so disappointing that I felt compelled to warn others, even though I usually don't bother with reviews. I spent $17 on two tickets and another $19 on tea and popcorn, and I genuinely regret it. Save your time and money-this one just isn't worth it.

LIKES:

Design Is Charming

Animation is Fluid

Some Funny Jokes

Very Short Runtime

Original Direction

Fun Voice Acting

Very Touching At Times

The Music

Summary: Hitpig is an odd animated movie, but it's a cute film that has charming animation and design that is fun to watch. These anthropomorphized animals move like the humans they are mimicking, with a few extra animal nuances to mix things up. It's simplistic and fun, and we've seen it done a bunch of times, but it's still charming and perfect for families looking for a friendly movie to visit the theater. While talking animals do not seem like an original idea, Hitpig gives the protagonist an interesting job and background compared to most of the films we've gotten. A pig whose job is to retrieve fellow animals for the owners is kind of funny and certainly one of the odder plots they have presented. I had wished that they had pursued it more, but the movie goes down the Dr. Seuss meets Despicable Me mashup arc that pulls the heartstrings and makes you feel the power of friendship.

In regards to the other aspects of the movie, Hitpig is simplistic fun and funny at times as well. The film is juvenile in much of its delivery, but some adult jokes made me laugh, while some of the banter had me chuckling. Being a fan of some of the styles was hysterical at times, with just the right amount of silliness to make it amusing. The voice cast is doing their best to make their characters come to life. Most of the time, they succeed, sometimes going into those deeper character moments that are relevant and other times just being the biggest doofs you can imagine. The extremes do become annoying, but kudos to them for giving each extreme the best of their abilities and making each joke the best it could be. And if all of this does not sound appealing, then take solace in the fact the movie is only about 75 minutes of actual runtime. Just enough time to let your ears bathe in the sweet symphonies of the awesome soundtrack designed for the movie.

DISLIKES:

Plot is Scattered

Characters Are Shallow At times

Little Suspense Or Intensity

Incessantly silly

Random Inclusion of Characters

Tried Too Hard To Be Funny

World Building Is Mundane

Too Many Plot Conveniences

Not Original Enough

Summary: Despite the fun I had, the movie is certainly not standing out amongst the bigger studio projects that Disney and DreamWorks have claimed. A smaller budget required cuts, and I felt a lot of them primarily in the story over anything else. The plot is adorable, but the movie is so scattered in plot, a buddy adventure that tries to test greed vs. The power of friendship. It's predictable, but the fight is not impressive, and the character development is small dips instead of plunging into deeper characters that are going on their journeys of self-discovery. There are very few moments of intense battles, moral tests, or climactic finales, with much of the danger sanded down to asinine skits with little recovery from the comedic bouts of humor. Characters seem haphazardly included, with only some fun background moments to proceed, suddenly becoming a big part of the movie. While they were cute (and again) a great comedic device, they held little point to the abrupt appearances but to design a team capable of the final plan. These plot conveniences become hyperbolic and soon distracting to the point of annoyance to the point it robs the story of full emotional investment. Mundane world-building does little to help support the movie, especially when it is too silly to the point of being stupid without any strategy or tact to execute it. And there is not enough originality to save it when the unique circumstances transform into a carbon-copy Dr. Seuss story.

The VERDICT: While certainly cute and fun, HitPig feels more like a Nickelodeon special condensed into a seventy-minute runtime and sent to get some money before the end of this coming month. Its cute atmosphere and characters are perfect for the younger audiences (alongside the young at heart) to gravitate towards, and the humor is a perfect entry into the movie world without crossing any major PG lines. However, those very qualities are what also limit the movie from reaching its full potential, therefore making the movie less of a must-see. Its simple story, with reckless character use, mundane trials, and excessive comedy use, just didn't fully engage my interest and lacked a lot of the layers that some of my favorite animated films have managed to craft. Perhaps sticking to the original plot could have accomplished much, and adding a little more maturity into the film could have helped spice things up. Alas, I can't recommend this movie for the theater outside of a daycare field trip as the ideal way to view it, and I would encourage a stream at home when it comes out.

My scores are:

Action/Adventure/Animation/Comedy: 6.5 Movie Overall: 6.0.

This movie is a complete trainwreck. It's as if Tommy Wiseau decided to make an animated film, and the result is this! Where do I even begin? The humor is painfully lame-poop and fart jokes galore. Who finds this funny? Changing adult swear words into "safe" alternatives doesn't make it clever; it makes it cringe-worthy. And the constant, forced references to famous movies and characters? Another failed attempt at humor that falls flat every single time. Oh, and let's not forget the Gordon Hamsy joke... why? Just why?

The main character, the pig, is horrifying to look at. His face is an unsettling mix of human features slapped onto a pig, making him outright ugly and unlikeable. The supporting characters are just as ridiculous-there's a nuke-shooting cat and an angry koala, as if the writers were pulling random ideas out of a hat. And don't get me started on the music-it's atrocious, with laughably bad singing that's almost insulting to listen to.

The plot? Weak and nonsensical. It feels like a fever dream of bad ideas stitched together with no thought or care. The only remotely tolerable part was the one minute of backstory for the pig, but that's not enough to redeem this garbage.

What's worse is that this isn't just a failure for adults-it's an insult to children. Kids are way smarter than the people who wrote, directed, or designed this monstrosity. Children's movies don't have to be dumbed down to the lowest denominator! This film is a slap in the face to animation as an art form.

I usually go easy on animated films because I know how much effort they take, but damn, this one deserves all the hate it gets. I wish I had listened to the one-star reviews. Don't waste your time or money on this dumpster fire.