![]() Their familial habitat has been shrunk to next to nothing as they slept over the winter, pushed out by 54 acres of suburban housing, dogs, cats and humans! This band of diverse forest creatures are a “family” waking up from their long hibernation, hungry and totally dumbfounded by the seemingly endless “thing” they have never encountered before-The Hedge. soon enlists Verne the turtle (voice of Garry Shandling), a sweet-natured porcupine family headed by Lou (voice of Eugene Levy) and Penny (voice of Catherine O’Hara), a highly excitable squirrel named Hammy (voice of Steve Carrell), a possum dad (voice of William Shatner) and daughter (voice of pop star Avril Lavigne), and an outspoken skunk named Stella (voice of Wanda Sykes). As he goes on the lookout for assistance he comes across a suburban smorgasbord evidently sprung up over the winter and also trips over some forest creatures just awaking from a long winter’s nap. R.J., very much a loner, needs some help. one week to replace it all, including the red wagon, or else R.J. is in the process of slipping away with a little red wagon full of packaged human snack-e-do’s, the big bear awakes and the wagon rolls out of the cave and onto the high way where the food is destroyed. ![]() a starving citified Raccoon (voice of Bruce Willis) as well as a brash scavenger, tries to steal the enormous pile of junk food goodies that a big bear named Vincent (voice of Nick Nolte) has hidden away in his cave for his post-hibernation breakfast. The humor is natural and the jokes are timed right and not squeezed out or forced on the audience. “Over The Hedge” doesn’t milk every scene for laughs. Also a surprising enough relief the skunk doesn’t show her “colors,” which by the way is a predictable puce green, but only once and at a time in the story when it is totally expected. What modern kid’s animation flick doesn’t have “potty jokes” these days? This one has a few, but they are not as distasteful as many out there and it is kinda funny when a character burps and tinges the air a deep magenta. ![]() Surprisingly palatable comedy too, because “Over The Hedge” is not really all that “over the top.”įull of wonderful realistic computer animation, “Over The Hedge” has characters you can relate to and have a fun time with. He says it’s really funny and you should see it more than once so as not to miss all those jokes that fly by. Willis is taking his kids to see it again in a theater, after the premiere, for that slot of family time. They all say they’re very excited about this funny, bright and most times hilarious animal romp through suburbia called “Over The Hedge.” Carell’s five year old daughter thinks her Dad is especially cool now, because he’s the guy who can burp his ABC’s on cue. No problem guys, you were all very funny! “Was that funny?” he would ask the crew after each take. William Shatner does an absolute gem of a job as a parody of-himself! Then there is Mr Die Hard himself, Bruce Willis, who confides he had a hard time with the comic timing because of lack of a live audience response to the jokes. Wanda Sykes does a smooth act as a no nonsense skunk with an attitude, which she says is mostly her comedy act, but weird to do as a monologue with no audience feedback. Steve Carell drank a power brew of 10 per cent coffee while the other 90 per cent of that java was sugar, every 30 minutes to get that “manic” feel to his character. ![]() Garry Shandling says he’s really a shy guy so this part helped him to sort of “come out of his shell” and his mouth muscles worked overtime on a scene where he chewed on a protein bar for about 20 er 30 er 50… 250 (?) takes until he got a line right.
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