Over The Hedge

Date Released: 19 May 2006

I watched the movie on: 19 May 2006

Genre: Animation / Comedy / Family

Directed by: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick

Writing credits:
screenplay :Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton and Karey Kirkpatrick
characters: Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Cast: (in credits order)
Bruce Willis:RJ (voice)
Garry Shandling:Verne (voice)
Steve Carell:Hammy (voice)
Wanda Sykes:Stella (voice)
William Shatner:Ozzie (voice)
Nick Nolte:Vincent (voice)
Thomas Haden Church:Dwayne (voice)
Allison Janney:Gladys (voice)
Eugene Levy:Lou (voice)
Catherine O'Hara:Penny (voice)
Avril Lavigne:Heather (voice)
Omid Djalili:Tiger (voice)
Sami Kirkpatrick:Bucky (voice)
Shane Baumel:Spike (voice)
Madison Davenport:Quillo (voice)
Zoe Randol:Mackenzie (voice)
Jessica Di Cicco:Shelby (voice)
Debra Wilson:Debbie (voice)
Sean Bishop:Police Officer (voice)
Jeannie Elias:Janis (voice)
Kejon Kesse:Timmy (voice)
Paul Butcher:Skeeter (voice)
Sean Yazbeck:BBQ Barry (voice)
Geoffrey Pomeroy:Ranger (voice)
Joel McCrary:Dr. Dennis (voice)
Lee Bienstock:Lunch Table Larry (voice)
Brian Stepanek:Nugent the Dog (voice)

Produced by:
Bonnie Arnold:producer
Ellen Coss:associate producer
Jim Cox:co-executive producer
Bill Damaschke:executive producer
Christian Kubsch:associate producer

Production Companies:
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks SKG

Memorable Quotes :
RJ: Ok, what we're goin' for is a crazy, man-eating, rabid squirrel. Can you handle that?
Hammy the Squirrel: Umm excuse me!
[Raises hand]
RJ: Yes, Hammy.
Hammy the Squirrel: Rabbits are all cute and cuddly soo..
RJ: RABID, not rabbit.
Hammy the Squirrel: Ohhh... huh?
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RJ: No, Hammy, not the cookie. I told you that cookie was junk!
Hammy the Squirrel: But I like the cookie.
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RJ: That is an S.U.V. humans ride in them because they are slowly loosing their ability to walk.
Lew the Porcupine: Wow it's huge!
Hammy the Squirrel: How many people fit in there?
RJ: Usually,..one.
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Hammy the Squirrel: Wanna help me find my nuts?
RJ: Very tempting, Hammy, very tempting..
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Dwayne: [after shooting the head off a plastic flamingo] Arrrgh! Not again! Those things are so lifelike! Curse you, plastic moldsmen.
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Hammy the Squirrel: I am a crazy, rabid squirrel! I want my cookies!
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Ozzie: Mother, is that you? Beckoning me into the light? Must... move... toward... the light!
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RJ: [Lays down some Monopoly play pieces] Okay, this is us.
Hammy the Squirrel: Can I be the car?
Bucky: I wanna be the car!
Spike: I'm the car. You be the shoe.
Bucky: The shoe is lame.
Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy-looking iron there?
RJ: Hey! It's not important. Besides, I'm the car. I'm always the car.
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Ozzie: I thought you were dead.
Heather: I learned from the best.
Ozzie: That's my girl.
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Dwayne: I believe someone phoned about an animal problem? The solution is standing before you. Dwayne LaFontaine is here.
Gladys: Where have you been? I am throwing a Welcome to the Neighborhood party tomorrow, and so far, Debbie's car has killed more animals than you have.
Dwayne: Stand down, sister. I personally guaranty that there won't be a living thing at this party. The Verminator is on the job.
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Verne: I thought we'd be dead by step two, so this is going great.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [Runs to one end of the hedge] It never ends! [Runs to the other end and back]
Hammy the Squirrel: It never ends that way, too.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [meekly] But I like the cookie!
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Stella: Don't even ask about the cork!
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Tiger: Stella? Stella? Where are you going? Stella? STEEEELLLLLLAAAAAAA!
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RJ: That's a diaper, and that DOES come out of a wazoo.
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Stella: You mean you don't mind the smell?
Tiger: This face was bred for Beauty. I cannot smell a thing.
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RJ: They ALWAYS got food with them. We eat to live - these guys live to eat! Let me show you what I'm talking about! The human mouth is called a 'piehole', the human being is called a 'couch potato'. THAT is a device to summon food. That is one of the many voices of food. THAT is the portal for the passing of food. THAT is one of the many food transportation vehicles. Humans bring the food, take the food, ship the food, they DRIVE food, they WEAR the food! THAT gets the food hot! THAT keeps the food cold! That, I'm not sure what that is. Well, what do you know? FOOD! THAT is the altar where they WORSHIP food! That's what they eat when they've eaten TOO MUCH food! THAT gets rid of the guilt so they can eat MORE FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! FOOOOOD! So, you think they have enough? Well, they don't. For humans, enough is NEVER enough! And what do they do with the stuff they don't eat? They put it in gleaming silver cans, just for us! Dig in!
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Hammy the Squirrel: I've had dirt, I don't like dirt, it tastes like dirt!
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Verne: We want NOTHING, to do with ANYTHING, that's OVER THAT HEDGE!
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Ozzie: I really thought you were dead!
Heather: I learned from the best.
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Hammy the Squirrel: [points angrily to his reflection in a car fender] THIS guy's not comin' with us, is he? 'Cause i dont want him to!
RJ: Oh, I have so much work to do
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Ozzie: Playing Possum is what we do. We die, so we live.
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Porcupine Children: [driving a van] It's just like Auto Homicide 3!
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Stella: I got makeup on my butt, dude!
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Tiger: Stop! No one has ever spoken to me like that!
[beat]
Tiger: It is bold. I like it!

Soundtracks:
"Family of Me"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Heist"Written and Performed by Ben Folds
"Still"Written and Performed by Ben Folds

Plot Summary & Review:
Just whose backyard is it, anyway?

Spring has sprung, and Verne and his woodland friends awaken from their long winter's nap to discover that a tall, green "thing" has mysteriously cropped up right through the middle of their home. Enter RJ, an opportunistic raccoon, who explains that the world beyond the hedge is the "gateway to the good life" where peculiar creatures called humans live to eat, rather than eat to live.Suspicious and even a little jealous of RJ, the ever-cautious Verne wants to keep his blended family safely on their side of the hedge. But, proving the adage that one man's garbage is another man's—or rather animal's—treasure, the manipulative RJ tries to convince the woodland band that there is little to fear and everything to gain from their over-indulgent new neighbors. Eventually, RJ and Verne form an unlikely friendship as they learn to co-exist with—and even exploit—this strange new world called suburbia.