Hit Pig

 Ok, this - this was unexpectedly good. A pig loses his best friend to a crocodile and then spends the rest of his days working to find stolen animals or escaped animals and return them to their owners. His nemesis is a woman named Leticia who rescues animals from captivity. She does it for the love of the animals: he does it for money. One day, a man named Leapin' Lord contracts Hit Pig to find his elephant, Pickles. And the adventure begins. So many adventures from the U.S. to Australia to the UK! Great animation in this and the voices are pretty good. So is the music. Jason Sudeikis voices Hit Pig, RuPaul voices Polecat and Flavor Flav voices the Chef MC. I wasn't totally impressed with Pickles, as I thought this was just another character that is so annoyingly innocent about the world that she just causes all kinds of problems, but in the end she gathers so many good friends/characters that the new team just makes the movie. The main villain, Leapin' Lord, is in and of himself a villain as his motives are completely selfish. He wants his elephant to catch him in his act, and he wants to be known the world wide for it. It's hard to find villains just for villain sake these days. And really, if there are more movies with these guys, I don't think we've seen the end of Leapin' Lord. Good to see something came from the mind and world of Berkeley Breathed. Well done!

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