They find that much of the forest they lived in has been turned into a housing development, which is separated from the little forest remaining by a giant hedge. The animals wonder how they will forage enough food for the next winter. RJ meets them and encourages them to traverse the hedge and steal food from the humans. Despite Verne's concerns, the animals join RJ in stealing and stockpiling human food, not knowing he intends to give it to Vincent.
Gladys Sharp, the neighborhood Home Owners Association president, takes notice of the animal problem and hires exterminator Dwayne LaFontant to get rid of them. Bruce Willis stars as the voice of a scheming raccoon who, in a perfectly paced early setpiece, attempts to steal food from a vicious bear and instead manages to destroy it all. Given a week to replace it or become bear food himself, he stumbles upon a cheerfully naïve "family" of woods-dwelling animals led by a conservative turtle . The suburbs are encroaching and they're understandably nervous, but Willis gets them hooked on human-produced junk food to manipulate them into doing his work for him.
The plot is feather-light, but the filmmakers treat that as an advantage, making time for satire and slapstick alike. There's plenty of manic running around and screaming, and several of the silent-action-set-to-sad-pop segments that are fast becoming animated films' standard method of establishing tone and character. It follows RJ, a selfish raccoon who tries to steal food from a bear and is caught and has to give it back. In order to do that, he recruits a group of animals to help him. However, they all come to like him and are unaware of his deceiving intentions.
And it is incredibly predictable and seen countless times before. But just this setting and specific situation is not as unoriginal and it gives us a lot of fun adventure and comedy. This is an incredibly entertaining movie that is always engaging and pleasant. I liked its beginning and how it introduces us to the story and its characters and the ending was expected, but sweet.
I absolutely loved the chemistry of the group and I liked its humor and heist and action sequences which are surprisingly well executed. While searching for help to gather food, RJ the intelligent raccoon comes across a bunch of other forest animals who are in danger due to suburban development destroying their habitat. A video game based on the film was released in 2006 on many platforms.
Parents need to know that this animated movie includes a fair amount of cartoon violence. Characters are crushed, blown up, flattened, banged, burned, and bounced -- all in good, Chuck-Jones-influenced fun. Animal protagonists steal food from each other and from unsympathetic humans. When a raccoon steals a bear's winter stash of food, the bear threatens retaliation and the raccoon fools other "foragers" into stealing food from humans to repay the bear and save himself. Younger kids will laugh at the obvious stuff and won't get the edgier humor aimed at older audiences, so this is one that several age groups can enjoy together. The hedge also beckons the resourceful raccoon who calls himself RJ for the junk food he needs to repay a territorial bear .
It's RJ's sneaky goal to persuade the trusting many to help him load up his loot wagon. And if the de facto group leader, the turtle called Verne , has qualms about the operation, RJ will appeal directly to the susceptible consumerist masses by introducing them to the joys of sugar rush and the uses of the universal remote control. However, it is shown in the official PlayStation 2 video game for Over the Hedge that a year after the movie she w… 26 images (& sounds) of the Over the Hedge cast of characters. This attracts the attention of a playful After RJ and Verne reconcile, they discover that Gladys has just restocked her pantry with a large food supply for an upcoming party and concoct a plan to get past the exterminator-planted boobytraps in her yard. It's been on the … Gladys had a string of bad luck as she had her food stolen multiple times, her car blown up, her house destroyed, got stung by the Depelter Turbo, lost her hair, and got arrested at the end of the film.
Over The Hedge is rated PG by the MPAA for some rude humor and mild comic action. The insatiable habits of human beings are mocked in this animated film about a group of cornered critters that steal food from the neighborhood. RJ finds a nearby, recently-built suburban housing development separated from a forest glade by a large hedge. The animals are scared, as the development had been built during their hibernation and they fear they will be unable to forage for food in the small glade. RJ shows them the amount of food humans consume and waste and suggests they forage from the humans. They make bold attempts to steal food directly from the humans, with RJ secretly guiding them to help collect the food he needs to replace Vincent's stash.
Over the Hedge is a 2006 American computer animated comedy movie. The movie is based on the characters from comic strip of the same name. The movie was directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick and was produced by Bonnie Arnold. The movie premiered in Los Angeles on April 30, 2006 and was released on May 19, 2006.
The movie features the voices of Bruce Willis, Steve Carell, William Shatner and Avril Lavigne were some of the voices. RJ presents the food to Vincent, but as he sees the exterminator truck driving off, he realizes that the family he found in the woodland animals is the most valuable thing in his life. RJ sends the food wagon careening into the truck, knocking out Dwayne and freeing the animals.
Spike, Bucky and Quillo take control of the truck and drive it back home, and RJ rejoins the family as they try to shake off the pursuing Vincent. They crash the truck into Gladys' home and return to the hedge, but are attacked from both sides of it by Vincent, Gladys and Dwayne. RJ gives Hammy an energy drink, making the squirrel hyperactive enough to move at warp speed which he uses to go and reactivate the De-Pelter Turbo. RJ lures Vincent into leaping over the hedge to get him, but puts on Verne's shell which protects him from Vincent's jaws and allows Verne to pull him out with a fishing line.
Vincent, Gladys and Dwayne are caught in the De-Pelter Turbo, resulting in them being blasted with radiation and trapped in a cage left in the ensuing crater. 83 minutes CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$80 millionBox office$340 millionOver the Hedge is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film based on the United Media comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Wanda Sykes, and Nick Nolte, the film was released on May 19, 2006, in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $336 million on an $80 million budget.
Trundling through the backyards and homes of oblivious and bungling humans, you get to play as RJ the raccoon, Verne the turtle, Hammy the squirrel and Stella the skunk. Gameplay itself revolves around stealing food and home electronics from the neighborhood and slogging them back to your forest lair. Throughout your quest for booty, the game's insufferable camera fights tooth and claw against you in an attempt to get your fur singed by lasers or trap you within steel cages - it's practically an enemy unto itself. Simply enabling the player to move the camera on their own would have made the experience infinitely more manageable. VerneVerne the turtle is well-meaning, selfless and honest.
He's also neurotic, insecure, and terrified of change. This little turtle is the leader of a group of small forest animals. Confronted by the sudden appearance of a new housing development, Verne tries to ignore the new neighbors, preferring his life of tradition and routine. But suburbia might just force Verne to experience something he's never had before - fun.
The latest hit from DreamWorks Animation, OVER THE HEDGE, comes to DVD on Oct. 17, 2006 (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount Home Ent., $19.95). I just wish I could shake the uneasy feeling that the movie, codirected by Karey Kirkpatrick and Antz's Tim Johnson and based on the comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis, is really about the terrorists winning. I mean, the cute, funny, resourceful animals are actually four-legged terrorists, out to punish hapless suburbanite humans everywhere, represented by Allison Janney as Gladys, a shrill, nosy, upwardly mobile Cruella De Vil from the local homeowners' association. There is really not too much to be concerned about in this family-friendly film. It contains a "dang" and "geez," and that's about it as far as the language. It does have a scene in which one of the creatures tells another one that humans expect them to roll over and to lick their privates, but that is about as risque as it gets.
One character named Hammy, a squirrel, does burp the first few letters of his ABC's, and one of his main purposes is to "get his nuts," which is done in an innocent fashion. The character of RJ does attempt to steal the bear's winter food in the beginning of the story, but it backfires and he learns his friends would have helped him if he only would have asked. Vincent is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 12th full-length animated feature film Over the Hedge, and a redeemed antagonist in the video game adaptation of the same name. He is a greedy black bear and RJ's former best friend-turned-arch-nemesis. RJ - A raccoon the main protagonist of both the film and comic series.
Verne - A turtle and the deuteragonist of both the film and comic series. Hammy - A squirrel and the tritagonist of both the film and comic series. Stella - A female skunk and the secondary tritagonist of the the film. Par for the course for animated movies, animals frequently get tossed around, hit by humans, smashed by various objects and are almost run over by automobiles. He also hits a human and gets porcupine needles stuck in his face.
Verne is mistaken for a hockey puck by humans, and he narrowly misses getting diced by a set of falling knives. A young girl, in turn, gets struck in the head by a catapulted turtle. Trying to retrieve a snack, RJ whacks a vending machine with a golf club.
As RJ brings the food to Vincent, he is consumed by remorse, and instead uses the stash to knock Dwayne's truck off the road, enraging Vincent. Dwayne is knocked out while the animals get free, and Spike, Bucky and Quillo use skills they learned from a videogame to drive the truck back to the development. Verne convinces the group to forgive RJ since he came back to save them, and they save him from Vincent. They return the truck to the development, crashing through Gladys' home, and the animals flee into the hedge.
Gladys and Dwayne converge on the animals from one side with a string trimmer and a cattle prod respectively, while Vincent tries to swipe at them from the other. To escape, RJ gives Hammy an energy drink, allowing the hyperactive squirrel to move incredibly fast. Hammy causes Vincent, Gladys, and Dwayne to be trapped by the Depelter Turbo while the animals escape. The police and animal control arrive, and Vincent is sent to the Rocky Mountains while Gladys is arrested for using the Depelter Turbo, and Dwayne attempts escape only to encounter Nugent who bites him on the leg.
Over the Hedge is a computer-animated animated feature, based on the United Media's comic strip of the same name. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick and produced by Bonnie Arnold, it was released on May 19, 2006. A 2006 computer animated film about animals collecting food. It is based on the United Media comic strip of the same name. As RJ ponders how he will possibly carry out such a daunting assignment, he stumbles upon the perfect answer – an unsuspecting group of forest dwelling animals. It is here that viewers meet Verne , a cautious turtle who has served as the group's leader; Stella , a spunky skunk; a couple opossums ; a family of porcupines, (with mom and dad voiced by Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy); and Hammy, a hyperactive squirrel .
It is definitely an underappreciated DreamWorks movie. Yes, his childish innocence is sweet but his hyperactive behavior made him unlikable in my opinion. She is a stereotype, but still probably the funniest character of the bunch and her scenes with the cat Tiger are quite funny. All of the porcupines are pretty forgettable and underdeveloped, Vincent the bear is a one-note character and the humans are too over-the-top. However, I really liked Gladys Sharp as somewhat of a villain here and the resolution with her and the other humans was very satisfying. Hammy is a hyperactive, sweet, red squirrel whose mouth moves as fast as his feet, he is innocent, dim-witted, very fast, romantic, friendly, curious, and very childish in nature with an extremely short attention span.
Hammy can run at the speed of light and has fast reflexes. "Over the Hedge" is based on the comic strip by Michael Fry and T. Lewis, about a group of woodland creatures who are being encroached by suburbia. (It may be a coincidence, but the neighborhood here looks strikingly similar to American Canyon.) A raccoon named R.J. Teaches the collection of porcupines, opossums and other animals how to forage among the heavily alarmed houses -- although he's really collecting food to pay back a debt to the Nolte-voiced bear.
Unlike other films that dedicate a sizable amount of their runtimes building up before getting to their main plots , this film doesn't take a long time to establish it's main story. As the very first event in the movie is RJ trying to steal Vincent's food, only to end up causing it to be ran over by a car and him making a deal with the bear to find more food in a week. And the rest of the film is dedicated to building on and extending that plotline. Over the Hedge is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy, fantasy film, based on the characters from the United Media comic strip of the same name. The film was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed through Paramount Pictures. With RJ's help, Verne apologizes to his reluctant friends, and they welcome him back.
Now, RJ stages the biggest heist yet, from the supplies of the big "welcome to the neighborhood" party Gladys plans for the following day. With Stella disguised as a cat, in order to distract the haughty guard-cat Tiger, the others raid her kitchen. Spies a can of Spuddies;— Vincent's favorite food, and the last item on the list — and in trying to retrieve it, like at the beginning, keeps the rest of the crew in the house long enough for Gladys to spot them. The Verminator's traps catch all of the animals;— all except RJ, who escapes with the wagon of Vincent's replacement goods.
As the caged others are driven away, RJ meets Vincent in the woods, where the bear congratulates RJ on successfully "conning the suckers" and getting what he needed. Realizing the path to which his unchecked drifting will lead, RJ rightfully turns on Vincent, who did not deserve all the food, and uses the piled-high wagon to crash into the Verminator's van, launching a rescue attempt. The enraged Vincent goes after RJ, determined to kill him. While being chased by Vincent, the young porcupines direct Dwayne's van into Gladys' home, much to her dislike. Vincent is conked by a hammer, pricked by Penny, and is finally sent flying with a balloon — a scene which is a parody to the ending of Alien . All of the animals pull out of the van as the verminator regains consciousness.
All this prompts the ire of home-owner association president Gladys Sharp , who hires a pest-control specialist Dwayne LaFontant, who calls himself The Verminator . The sequence ends with the two animals falling, unhurt, to earth, while the errant, ad hoc rocket crashes into Gladys' black SUV with a stylized, mushroom-cloud fireball. When RJ and Verne are rocketed back over the hedge, RJ and the other animals get mad at Verne. While trying to warn the others of RJ's plan to use them, Verne turns on RJ and claims that he is making his friends to do whatever he likes because they are "too stupid and naive to know any better". Hammy tearfully says, "I'm not stupid," and takes the comment seriously with him being very hyperactive and somewhat childlike.
Angry and hurt, the animals leave Verne and he is all alone. Verne is then by himself, as he wonders what is truly best for his family and whether he belongs in it any more. Omid Djalili as Tiger, a Persian cat; his full Persian name is "Prince Tigerius Mahmoud Shabazz." Initially hating the forest animals, he helps guard Gladys' house from them.
However, he joins their family after he falls in love with Stella. As Gladys Sharp's pet Persian cat, Prince Tigerius Mahmoud Shabazz guards the house for any intruding pests from the other side of the hedge. Being an obstacle for the forest animals when stealing food from the house, Stella is disguised as a cat to distract him. But with Tiger's "beautiful" evolution erasing any sense of smell, danger may turn into romance between the two. With his clever instincts, he is able to convince them that theres greatness beyond the separating hedge, but on the side is trying to pay back for Vincent's food supply which he accidentally destroyed. Over The Hedge features far too many subsidiary characters, and tries too hard to distinguish them with silly accents and voices.
The B-list-star cast includes Steve Carell as the obligatory hyper squirrel, Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as a pair of cornpone porcupines, Wanda Sykes as an attitudinal skunk, William Shatner as a hammy opossum and dad to Avril Lavigne, and more. But in spite of the overcrowding, the film concentrates on knowing gags and personal relationships instead of excess character business. As with Folds' music, the results are engaging, even charming, in spite of their consciously calculated attempts to engage and charm. Amid a sea of similar cartoons about hectically distressed animal friends (Madagascar, The Wild, et. al.), Over The Hedge stands out as genuinely witty and even a little barbed.
