Over The Hedge-Film Review

Film Review

Over The Hedge

In a reversal of roles, a bunch of animals encroach on suburbia and encounter the oddities of urban living

Director: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling and Steve Carell
Running time: 84 mins
Rating: ***


Lisa Schwarzbaum

The characterisations are charming. The voice acting is delightful. The visual and verbal jokes are as bouncy and multilevel as we have come to expect from DreamWorks. I just wish I could shake the uneasy feeling that the movie, 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.
Entertainment Weekly


Roger Ebert

This feature cartoon is not at the level of Finding Nemo or Shrek, but is a lot of fun, awfully nice to look at, and filled with energy. The action scenes are fun, the characters are well-drawn and voiced, and I thought the film's visual look was sort of lovely. If the animals lack the lofty thinking of their originals on the comics page, they are nevertheless a notch or two above the I.Q. levels of many an animated creature.
Chicago Sun-Times


Manohla Dargis

No doubt the people at DreamWorks would prefer that their film bring to mind animated classics like Disney's Bambi, but no such luck. Although this tale about a group of woodland critters threatened by their new human neighbours has the technical trappings of a worthwhile Saturday matinee, no one bothered to pay attention to the screenplay. The various writers pad the story with the usual yuks, allusions and some glop about family, but there is no poetry here and little thought.
The New York Times

* Fuh-get about it, **Ho-Hum!, *** Oh, not bad at all, **** Way too good!, ***** Citizen Kane!

im goona watch this film in the next week seems funny yaar

this film was so funny thatnks for the review!