Synopsis
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisRJ (voice)
- Garry ShandlingVerne (voice)
- Steve CarellHammy (voice)
- Wanda SykesStella (voice)
- William ShatnerOzzie (voice)
- Nick NolteVincent (voice)
- Thomas Haden ChurchDwayne (voice)
- Allison JanneyGladys (voice)
- Eugene LevyLou (voice)
- Catherine O'HaraPenny (voice)
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
Over The Hedge stands out as genuinely witty and even a little barbed. Its chipper, sneering outsider's look at suburban sprawl and conformity isn't going to change the world, but it's still self-aware enough to be reasonably smart. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The visual and verbal jokes are as bouncy and multilevel (hip height for adults, knee-slap-size for kids) as we have come, no doubt selfishly, to expect from DreamWorks. - 83
Christian Science Monitor
This enjoyable Dreamworks animated comedy is well timed. - 75
ReelViews
Solid family entertainment, and it's better than 2006's previous tepid animated releases. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A backyard ecological comedy outfitted with some fine, silly slapstick and clever animal characters. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Deftly held together by bags of good humor and zany action sequences, tethered to a heartfelt conviction that green is good and family is better. - 60
Variety
Despite a sprinkling of laughs and eye-catching moments, this adaptation of a popular comicstrip reps a middling effort from the house that "Shrek" built, a rather narrowly conceived tale that makes only modest hay from the overworked conflict between wildlife and encroaching humans. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Even with Levy and O'Hara and Shandling adding what they can, you can only enjoy the voices behind the critters so much when the images fall so short.
