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Rj from over the hedge5/26/2023 The various writers, including Karey Kirkpatrick, who directed with Tim Johnson, pad the story with the usual yuks, allusions (there's a Rosebud moment) and some glop about family, but there is no poetry here and little thought. Although this tale about a group of woodland critters threatened by their new human neighbors (based on Michael Fry and T Lewis's comic strip) has the technical trappings of a worthwhile Saturday matinee - the hair on the animal bodies stirs when they do - no one bothered to pay commensurate attention to the screenplay. No doubt the people at DreamWorks who made "Over the Hedge" would prefer that their film bring to mind animated classics like Disney's "Bambi" (or, as Hammy suggests, "Ice Age"), but no such luck. That voice is one of the few charms in the animated frolic "Over the Hedge," which features a menagerie of meticulously rendered, computer-generated creatures brought to something like life by a host of talented animators and some very fine actors, including Steve Carell, whose speed freak of a squirrel, Hammy, brings to mind Henry Hill just around the time he begins snorting too much of his product in "Goodfellas." Well, of course Nick Nolte makes sense as a bear - a big, grouchy, sleepy bear with a crackling, beautifully creaking voice that suggests too many late nights smoking far too many unfiltered cigarettes.
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