The pack strikes back! In DreamWorks’ smash hit comedy, a band of hungry forest critters goes “over the hedge” to take a bite out of Suburbia. Plus, check out the All-New Mini-Movie, Hammy’s Boomerang Adventure only on the Over the Hedge DVD… It’s the funniest, furriest, four minutes you’ll see this year!The manicured lawns and overstuffed garbage cans of suburbia become a buffet for woodland creatures in Over the Hedge. A self-centered raccoon named RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis, Die Hard) steals and accidentally destroys the hoard of an angry bear (Nick Nolte, 48 Hours), who gives the raccoon a week to replace it. RJ despairs–until he meets an odd gang of foragers, ranging from a turtle named Verne (Garry Shandling, The Larry Sanders Show), a father/daughter duo of opossums (the bizarre pairing of William Shatner and pop singer Avril Lavigne), a family of porcupines (with A Mighty Wind’s Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara as the parents), and a hyperactive squirrel named Hammy (Steve Carell, The 40 Year Old Virgin). By convincing these friendly beasts that the suburban homesteads on the other side of a recently erected hedge are a mother-lode of cast-off food, RJ hopes to dupe them into doing his gathering. But when the suburban residents realize they’ve been invaded by woodland pests, an exterminator is called to take care of the problem. The overarching storyline of Over the Hedge is pure formula–your basic “family matters more than anything” lesson–but moment to moment, the movie is delightfully crisp and clever. The animation is topnotch, the acting is excellent (other voices include those of Allison Janney, The West Wing, and Thomas Haden Church, Sideways), and the satirical jabs at consumerism are actually funny. An above-average animated movie. –Bret Fetzer
Stills from Over the Hedge (click for larger image)
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March 5, 2010
#1
Don’t know why this is here as I never purchased this item.
March 5, 2010
#2
Yes kids will love this movie, yes the animation is great. But as an adult watching this movie I became quickly annoyed. It’s basically a bash on our consumer driven society, you know nature good, man bad. Man just consumes! consumes!consumes! A jab here and there would of been ok, but the movie continually hits you over the head with the message, it grew quite tiresome. I have to wonder how many cokes, twinkies, chips, etc were consumed by Dreamworks as they were working on this movie! Will this DVD be filling up landfills in the future? Maybe a biodegradeable version should be released. lol
March 5, 2010
#3
THIS DVD SKIPED & JUMED FROM FRAM TO FRAM …..BUT VERY GOOD SELLER HAD NO PORBLUM GETTING REFUND ,WOULD FOR SURE DO BUSINESS AGAIN
March 5, 2010
#4
This movie was not near as funny as what the movie trailers made it look like it was going to be. There are many dissapointing things about this movie. Rent it and you’ll hopefully see what I mean.
March 5, 2010
#5
I don’t know how to put this lightly, so I won’t, this movie is garbage in it’s purest form (if garbage can be pure). It rips off a plot and changes the setting to make it unrecognizable. Here let me take you on a tour of the problems with this movie:
Plot: One animal needs to repay another animal by getting him something. In order to do this, the first animal needs to trick a bunch of innocent, harmless animals to do his bidding by misguiding them. Throughout the course of the movie he tricks them, but feels guilty about it. At the end of the movie, he is confronted by the animal he needs to repay, while all the innocent animals are in grave danger. In the end, he decides to do the right thing and help the innocent animals, while the animal he needs to repay gets what’s coming to him.
Now tell me, is this the plot of Over the Hedge, or Ice Age?
Humor: This is supposed to be a ‘family’ film, what part of ‘family’ does Dreamworks ‘not’ understand, family is supposed to be clean humor, this is not, clean humor. As with ‘Shrek’, ‘Madagascar’ and (to a lesser extent) ‘Wallace and Gromit’, Dreamworks has successfully weaved very crude and even sexual humor through there so called ‘family films’, this one is no exception. This one successfully uses farting, burping, snot and even jokes about a male squirrel and his ‘nuts’ as it’s main source of humor, now, I don’t mind if a family movie has one or two farting or burping jokes in it, but this movie was unrelentless, it just ‘wouldn’t stop’. But the main problem is that some crude humor can be relatively funny, in this movie, I think I might have giggled, once, no more, no less. Also, unlike the afore mentioned films, this film wasn’t even well made to begin with, so it doesn’t have much going for it.
Characters: As with almost all animated films, every character has there own ‘problem’. In ‘Finding Nemo’, Marlin was overprotective of his son, in ‘A Bug Life’ Flik is absent-minded and is of no particular help to his ‘colony’. In ‘Over the Hedge’ the creators attempt at mulitple characters with problems, the problem is, the audience doesn’t make the connection that the characters have problems until they’re already solved. For instance; One character and apparently under-appreciates her dad, this was only mentioned once in the film, and it was her just briefly barrates her dad for being a wimp, at the end of the film, she stops underappreciating her dad and follows in his footsteps. I didn’t notice that this was supposed to be an obvious theme in the movie until the end, apparently, it wasn’t that obvious. This happens with most a the movies characters. Also, Wanda Sykes really isn’t that funny.
And thus, our tour ends. Apparently (like almost all animated films) this movie was adored by asudiences worldwide, I’m very alone with my opinions, I apoligize for my apparent ‘lack of acceptance’ (smirks).