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. The comedy, based on the popular comic strip, revolves around a con-man raccoon who joins up with a group of forest animals to go "over the hedge" into suburbia to forage for junk food.
Garry Shandling, Wanda Sykes and Eugene Levy are among the other voice talents. Piled onto a wagon rolls down the side of the hill and into the road, only to be crushed by a bus. Just when you think animals don't need to be encroached by sprawling suburban developments, there happens to be one nearbyâ€"a junk food goldmine. Granted it's based on a comic strip with avid followers, the problem with the film is much like everyone has already stated.
It does follow the tried and true formula of the buddy/odd couple movies like Toy Story and Shrek. Everytime the story focused on Verne the Turtle (pitch-perfect Garry Shandling) and his jealousy towards RJ the Racoon (Bruce Willis, who didn't sound like Bruce Willis), I kept going back to Buzz and Woody. There's even a scene that's eerily reminiscent of the Andy's room scene in the first Toy Story, where Buzz is strapped to the rocket.
It follows the formula of many animated movies to a tee. Gag A DayOver the Hedge is a syndicated comic strip, written by Michael Fry, and drawn by T. It tells the story of a raccoon, a turtle, a squirrel and their friends who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology, while becoming enticed by it at the same time. 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.
The movie relies on repeated scenes of cartoon violence for much of the action. Turns out it's a raccoon who goes by the name of R.J. Living on the outskirts of nowhere in particular, near a local roadside stop, he has become keenly observant of humans and their ways, means and indulgencesâ€"chiefly junk food.
When a bag of junk food gets stuck in the vending machine, R.J. Tries to pry a canister of Spuddies from Vincent's paws. In Dreamworks' animated film, Over the Hedge, the insanely hyper squirrel, Hammy, completely stole the show. Because of his immense popularity, Activision plans on giving the squirrel his very own video game in Hammy Goes Nuts. The game will be released this fall on the PSP, GBA and DS.
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. RJ then goes to Verne, cools down and cheers him up. 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.
From the 2006 DreamWorks Animation film Over The Hedge comes this new action/adventure from Activision. Gamers assume the role of characters including RJ the raccoon, Verne the turtle, Hammy the squirrel and Stella the skunk, and explore a suburban neighborhood filled with traps and other various obstacles. In addition, the title boasts dozens of puzzles and mini-games and a two-player cooperative mode.
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. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, and produced by Bonnie Arnold, it was released in the United States on May 19, 2006. The main animal character, RJ, is a raccoon, and Verne is a turtle.
Even though Hammy does not play as important of a role as other animals in the film, he is one of the most loved of them all. 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. A raccoon named RJ , after unsuccessfully trying to get a snack item from a vending machine, ventures into the cave of a hibernating American black bear named Vincent . While trying to steal Vincent's cache of goods, as well as his red wagon and blue cooler, RJ accidentally wakes up Vincent, who after realizing what RJ is doing, tries to scare him into giving his stuff back. In a panic, RJ knocks the wagon of food into the street.
It looks okay, and RJ and Vincent laugh about it, when it is run over by a truck and is destroyed. 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. Indeed there is a surprising amount of sophistication to be found when you weed through all the standard spoofs. In the midst of the food-heists there is much action to be found in the form of vibrant, kinetic chases, shooting rockets and acrobatic stunts over the hedge. It is even a bit chaotic toward the end but a great slow-motion capture ties the pacing together.
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. He often gets on the nerves of those around him, but endears himself to them at the same time, as long as he stays away from the super energy drinks anyway. Hammy can run at the speed of light and has fast reflexes.
Another, equally humorous character is a rottweiler in one of the yards. Many such animated movies, following the same formula of a journey to recover a necessary item or items with an impending deadline, tend to portray dogs as either entirely malevolent/bullyish or abundantly stupid. As a prior scene involving Ozzie the possum establishes the fact that humans cannot understand animals but they can understand each other, we infer that the rottweiler's barks are translated as, "PLAY?! " The easily excitable dog is attracted to anything that moves, repeating, "PLAY?
" ad nauseum to drive home the point that the big lunk just wants to jostle around, gleefully ignorant of his own strength and seeming menace. You have to see it to get the tone, but it's certainly a more perceptive adaptation of dogspeak than I've seen in any other canine anthropomorphization. The film was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Tiger - Gladys' pet cat and one of the film's antagonists. This character is not featured on the comic series. Hammy — A hyperactive squirrel, Hammy is the least intelligent, though also the most lovable character in the strip, spouting random comments at random moments.
His comments usually state an unusually short lecture on a topic of little interest to the other characters. He was later renamed as "Sammy" one continuity error that was assigned a fanciful explanation when the film was in production in May 2005. The character swapped places in December 2005 with his duplicate also named "Hammy" from the other side of a mirror. A video game based on the film was released on May 9, 2006. Developed by Edge of Reality, Beenox and Vicarious Visions, it was published by Activision for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Shane Baumel, Sami Kirkpatrick, and Madison Davenport were the only ones to reprise their roles for the video game while everyone else was voiced by different voice actors.
The film was originally going to be released in November 2005; however, in December 2004, the date was changed to May 2006. The film was screened as a "work-in-progress" on April 29, 2006, at the Indianapolis International Film Festival and it premiered on April 30, 2006, in Los Angeles. Nick Nolte, Bruce Willis, Avril Lavigne, Garry Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Catherine O'Hara and Steve Carell attended the premiere. The film was theatrically released in the United States on May 19, 2006. In select New York and Los Angeles theatres, it was accompanied by a DreamWorks Animation's animated short film First Flight. The film was also screened out of competition on May 21, 2006, at the Cannes Film Festival.
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. Vincent is captured by animal control and shipped off to the Rocky Mountains, while Gladys is arrested for possessing the De-Pelter Turbo and Dwayne is chased by Nugent. RJ joins the woodland creatures' family permanently as well as Tiger, who remains in love with Stella even after learning she is a skunk, as he cannot smell. The animals' food storage is quickly replenished by Hammy, who finally found the nuts he stored before the previous winter.
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. Verne apologizes to RJ for his actions and reconciles with the other animals. On the night before Vincent's hibernation ends, RJ sees that Gladys has bought a massive stockpile of food for an upcoming party and enlists the help of the animals to invade her home and steal it.
Hammy successfully disables the De-Pelter Turbo while Stella poses as a cat to seduce Gladys' Persian cat Tiger in order to steal his collar, which enables entry into the house's pet door. The animals stockpile another wagon full of food, but right as they are about to leave at sunrise, RJ sees a can of chips called Spuddies and becomes determined to get them as Vincent specifically requested them. While trying to justify his effort to get the chips, RJ lets slip his true intention for the food.
Gladys comes downstairs and finds the animals, and RJ manages to escape with the food. The others are caught by Dwayne, who takes them away in his truck to euthanize them. 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.
Hammy the squirrel leads RJ the raccoon, Verne the turtle and all-new forest friends on another daring trip into the 'burbs. When Hammy's beloved cable TV goes out, his buddies have to scramble through the neighborhood to restore the signal—and Hammy's happiness. The movie isn't exceptional or particularly innovative. The layered levels of humor to keep adults and children interested are all there, but I think with a slightly cockeyed attitude relative to the usual execution.
Consider Verne's question as they pass by one of the gigantic SUV's, "How many humans fit in there? Astutely observes, "Usually one." Think about it for a second. We've heard endless appeals to everything from needing room for the kids to having space for more groceries than are generally needed to feed a family, but how often do you ever see more than one person occupying such a vehicle on the freeway? Also note the scene in which, while raiding a resident's refrigerator, the feral infiltrators accidentally switch on the TV and out blasts the ubiquitous "THX" soundâ€"barely awakening the owner of the large house.
The insinuation could be that the houses have grown so uselessly huge that there's enormous space between the living room and the upper bedroom across which the noise can hardly be heard. Generally, I find animated films revolving around some sort of needlessly complicated journeyâ€"inevitably proving to be entirely avoidable by the end of the filmâ€"tiresome and even grating. But, this time, something interesting happened on the way to the candy store.
Probably not… especially since it's not much of a "theory" to begin with. Actually, it's more like a loose set of tenuous observations that are sometimes contradicted, which is to say it's not a theory at all. Is hungry and needs something to eat, so he decides to enter Vincent's cave while the bear is sleeping, to steal some of his food. He talks to himself about only taking what he needs, but he ends up trying to steal the whole wagon full of food. EW caught up with Steve Carell on the set of the Bruce Almighty sequel, Evan Almighty, to chat about his overcaffeinated role as the voice of Hammy the squirrel in the upcoming animated film Over the Hedge . He spoke about his vocal inspirations, his Shakespearean dreams, and why God wants him to build a gigantic, Noah-style ark.
