Over the Hedge Reviews

One of the first examples of: Just because they use computer graphics and celebrity voices doesn't mean it's good.

They used a lot of family tropes and cliches. The story had potential but never broke out of its mundane existence.

Is it fun? Yes. Is it for the kids and will they enjoy it? Yes

While, at least for some time, Pixar was always focusing on making the highest quality of CGI animated features, not only from a technical point of view but also storywise, Dreamworks never had such ambitions as they produced more features than Pixar and always with an obvious commercial purpose. As a result, their trackrecord as been pretty much spotty with a few bonafide hits (‘Shrek’, ‘Madagascar’, ‘How to train your dragon’) and a lot of misfires. Eventually, this movie definitely belonged to the 2nd group as it didn’t get much love but, personally, I have to admit it, I really had a weak spot for this flick. Of course, the story is actually not really amazing, there was no depth whatsoever but I thought it was still a fun animated feature. Apparently, it is based on a syndicated comic strip which I don’t really know and, pretty much like ‘Garfield’, it was a rather difficult task to move from those short little stories to a full length feature. At the end of the day, they focused mostly on the characters which were pretty funny and not so much on the criticism on our consumerist society. Still, even though it is nothing amazing, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

I thought this was going to be a cheesy kid movie. Don't get me wrong, I love Shrek, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, and the movies of Pixar and DreamWorks. It just seemed like this was an attempt to get a cutesy animal movie. This was pleasantly surprising (like PIxXeL said). It was more than entertaining, and I'm glad to have seen it...

This movie is really what surprised me these days. I just thought they don't make it like this anymore... Good, clean fun, lots of laugh, and overall feeling of something new when you watch it. This movie is a must see, no matter if you are (-2- - prelude76 is probably right) 6 years old kid or 72 years old grandpa/ma. This is hip.