Over the Hedge; the best Dreamworks has done so far

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2006)

I give Over the Hedge 15 out of 10 points. This is quite possibly the best film to ever come out of Dreamworks. It has a great story and is enjoyable by everybody. It has great animation, such a greatness, we have yet to see in a movie. The film is based on a comic strip of the same name written by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. RJ(Willis), a cunning, family-of-one, raccoon, in his quest for food, destroys a bears whole supply. With just a week to pay it back or pay with his life, he needs a miracle. Just such a miracle occurs when he meets Verne(Shandling), a tentative turtle, and his family of woodland critters,(Carell, Sykes, Shatner, Levy, O'Hara, Lavigne, Kirkpatrick, Baumel), all of which, are foragers. Unfortunately, their woodland forest was cut down while they were hibernating and replaced by Suburbia, except for the small acre or so yet to be demolished. What will they do for food? Verne's "family" has the food gathering skills, RJ has the know-how, and the humans have the food.