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91This isn't much of a plot, but as in the "Toy Story" films the combination of a varied cast of characters and a vision of the human world from an unlikely perspective make for consistent amusement.
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91The film stays true to its characters and keeps the laughs coming in what may be the closest thing in spirit to the old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes to hit the screen in years. And when it comes to animation designed primarily for laughs, praise doesn't come any higher than that.
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91Over The Hedge stands out as genuinely witty and even a little barbed. Its chipper, sneering outsider's look at suburban sprawl and conformity isn't going to change the world, but it's still self-aware enough to be reasonably smart.
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If they were still making Looney Tunes, they'd look a lot like Over the Hedge.
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88It's very funny, and the little woodland critters that make up the cast are a kiddie-pleasing bunch.
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83The visual and verbal jokes are as bouncy and multilevel (hip height for adults, knee-slap-size for kids) as we have come, no doubt selfishly, to expect from DreamWorks.
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83This enjoyable Dreamworks animated comedy is well timed.
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80Aside from having some great animation, the writing is funny and clever.
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75Not at the level of "Finding Nemo" or "Shrek," but is a lot of fun, awfully nice to look at, and filled with energy and smiles.
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75Kids will eat it up, while solid voice work from William Shatner and Wanda Sykes should keep this borderline-feral toon from pushing adults over the edge.
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75The computer-animation is terrific, most of the slapstick gags are fun, and Wanda Sykes' voice performance as feisty Stella the Skunk is one that will be remembered - and not because it stinks.
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75This has to be the first children's film to weave a Grand Theft Auto joke into the script -- and like most things in the movie, it's pretty amusing.
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75The vividly animated film -- based on a comic strip by Michael Fry and T. Lewis -- has an appealing balance of comic bits and exhilarating action sequences.
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75Solid family entertainment, and it's better than 2006's previous tepid animated releases.
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75When "Hedge" clicks on all cylinders, Chuck Jones smiles down from heaven.
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70A backyard ecological comedy outfitted with some fine, silly slapstick and clever animal characters.
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70Deftly held together by bags of good humor and zany action sequences, tethered to a heartfelt conviction that green is good and family is better.
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70Offers plenty of modest pleasures.
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70Hedge is built for laughter rather than artistry; jokes are packed into every pixel. But despite the movie's entertaining qualities, there is something a little unsettling.
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70The final showdown, in which the critters tangle with security-rigged lawn flamingos and garden gnomes, would have made Rube Goldberg proud.
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67The story is slim but the script is snappy and the film moves with a fluid rhythm that charges up to a rollercoaster pace.
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63There is actually an occasional moment of inspiration, but as an experience, the movie doesn't hog much shelf space in the memory.
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63Though the animation is solid and the writing reasonably clever, Over the Hedge is clearly more about packaging than freshness or substance.
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60You'll soon be sick of digital furballs, but there's plenty of fun here.
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60Despite a sprinkling of laughs and eye-catching moments, this adaptation of a popular comicstrip reps a middling effort from the house that "Shrek" built, a rather narrowly conceived tale that makes only modest hay from the overworked conflict between wildlife and encroaching humans.
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Even with Levy and O'Hara and Shandling adding what they can, you can only enjoy the voices behind the critters so much when the images fall so short.
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50Over the Hedge isn't by any stretch bad. It's just banal.
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50Like a lot of animated fare, it's overly busy, lacking the comic's gentle, contemplative air.
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50The disappointingly pedestrian computer-animated Over the Hedge will be more entertaining for little tykes than their older siblings and parents, and would not seem out of place on Saturday morning television.
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"Lady and the Tramp" all by its lonesome is worth a dozen of these meat-grinders -- crude commodities, plush toys and product placements in search of a story from which to hang their price tags.
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40There is no poetry here and little thought.
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The film sometimes jumps "Over the Hedge" in terms of story or comedy, but nevertheless at least its linear and simple to understand.