 |
Weekly Vote |
 |
|
|
|
|
Member Login |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
| |
Review
Title:
Over The hedge
Over the Hedge, the latest creation from the DreamWorks studios looks set to bloom when it hits the big screen this summer. The animated action comedy from the makers of the hugely successful Shrek & Shrek 2, Madagascar and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Warerabbit has already tested more successfully than its predecessors Shrek & Shrek 2 in a recent research screening in the US, scoring better overall for humour, animation, story, pace and character appeal. Voiced by Hollywood heavyweight Bruce Willis alongside Steve Carell William Shatner, Gary Shandling, Nick Nolte and Avril Lavigne, the film is released in the UK on June 30th.
When RJ the racoon (Bruce Willis) is caught pilfering Vincent the bear’s mountainous pile of treasured goodies-junk food stored for his post-hibernation feast-he desperately negotiates for his life, promising Vincent the impossible: to replace everything within a week.
Meanwhile, the bucolic life of a group of innocent forest dwellers is shattered when they awake from their hibernation to discover their forest has been invaded by a horrifying alien presence: the ‘burbs’! They stare out in shock at the spanking new suburbs where their nut trees and berry bushes used to be. Not knowing anything about humans, their neurotic and overprotective leader, Verve the turtle (Garry Shandling) nervously ventures into a backyard only to encounter the horrors of the suburban living: lawn sprinklers, BBQ utensils, S.U.Vs and mountain bikes. RJ, too, has ventured into the suburb as the only place on earth with enough junk food to satisfy that bear.
When Verne returns to the meadow, he vows they will never venture ‘over the hedge’ again. But RJ has different ideas. He sees in the little forest gang exactly what he needs-lots more hands for replenishing the bear’s food supply.
RJ puts his plan into action, ‘accidentally’ meeting the animals and convincing them that the ‘burbs’ are not to be feared, but rather to be embraced. After all, they offer endless smorgasbord of high processed yummies and all types of modern conveniences the animals have never even imagined they needed. He can help them gather enough to feed a bear…
Over The Hedge, a PDI/DreamWorks production, is distributed in the UK and Ireland by United International Pictures and opens nationwide on June 30th 2006.
|
| | | | |
Trailers/Media Links
