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Mood:
- HumorousFeel GoodExciting
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Plot:
- Animal lifeDangerHeroesFriendsDisorderChaseGood Versus EvilRescue more...
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Genres:
- AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyHollywood Tone
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- IndianaUSASuburbsIn the Woods
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- Computer Animated
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Over the Hedge, 2006
English
USA
Profile of Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge can be described as humorous, feel good, and exciting. The plot revolves around animal life, disorder, and friends. The main genres are comedy, adventure, and family. In terms of style, Over the Hedge has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. It is set, at least in part, in the woods and in the suburbs. Over the Hedge is located in Indiana. It takes place in contemporary times. Visually, it is computer animated. Over the Hedge has received attention for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Over the Hedge
A ragtag group of forest critters awakes from hibernation to find that their forest has been turned into a suburban housing development in this animated film co-directed by Tim Johnson (ANTZ) and first-timer Karey Kirkpatrick, and based on a comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis. Paternal turtle Verne (Gary Shandling) and his makeshift family--spunky skunk Stella (Wanda Sykes), speedy squirrel Hammy (Steve Carrell), dramatic father opossum Ozzie (William Shatner), and his perpetually embarrassed daughter Heather (Avril Lavigne)--are ready to start the annual forage for food when they discover a giant hedge where their forest used to be. Luckily, charming raccoon RJ (Bruce Willis) shows up just in time to teach them about humans and life on the other side of the hedge, and how much food there is to be had.
But what Verne and his pals don't know is that RJ's intentions are not necessarily honorable: this loner needs the food they forage to pay back a large debt to Vincent, a very large, angry bear (Nick Nolte). To make matters more difficult, on the other side of the hedge is Gladys (Allison Janney), the president of the neighborhood homeowner's association, who doesn't take kindly to wild animals. When she calls in the Verminator, Dwayne (Thomas Haden Church), it's all-out war as the animals infiltrate the world of humans. Will the loving forest family emerge victorious, or will the spoils of suburbia run them out of the small patch of land they have left? And will RJ stick by his new family, or just keep looking out for himself? Songs by musician Ben Folds reflect the film's take on the perils of suburbanization without being too preachy.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 April 2006 |
| Runtime: | 83 min |
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- by: Ken Fox
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Tasha Robinson
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- 03.April.2010
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- by: Zsoly
- Zsoly rated this movie
8/10Great
- 07.December.2009
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- by: hystrix
- hystrix rated this movie6/10Okay
