Over the Hedge Movie Review 2006

Hilarious, if shallow comedy has a group of woodland creatures awakening from their winter hibernation, surprised to see a subdivision has sprouted up just beyond a hedge. Opportunistic raccoon RJ (Willis) tells his pals, including cautious turtle Verne (Shandling), that humans equal the good life and that they should venture into this strange new world. Of course, the humans, in the form of harpie Gladys (Janney) and "Verminator" Dwayne (Church) view these new neighbors as pests. Plenty of laughs and excellent voice performances, especially from Carell and Shatner, but trades much of the satire of Michael Fry and T. Lewis's source comic strip for fuzzy sentimentality.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Dreamworks Animated Movies, Animation & Cartoons, Strained Suburbia, Adapted from Comics, Talking Animals

Screenplay

Karey Kirkpatrick, Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton

Director

Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick

Music

Rupert Gregson-Williams

Other

Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steven Carell, William Shatner, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Wanda Sykes, Nick Nolte, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney