Okay, I guess.

Rating: 6/10 (7 October 2019)

I remember watching Over The Hedge when it cames out. I also remember not enjoying very much, so therefore I checked it out once again these many years later to find out if my opinion had changed.
Well, something I enjoyed and something I didn't. Firstly, I enjoyed the animation done on the backgrounds and the animal characters where the fur looked nicely textured and the movements were a good mix of slapstick wildness and realism. The choice to make the everyday objects and the humans look bigger as seen from the animals' point of view was nice. But the humans themselves didn't look very appealing and seemed too unlikable in their over-the-top hatred hatred towards the animals.
And that's one of my main gripes with this movie, because at first it looks like a satire on humans moving away from nature, but it gets overly preachy when the main human antagonists are so darn cruel without any hesitation.
The story is pretty predictable and doesn't do much to make it seem fresh. RJ is a raccoon in trouble with a bear he has stolen food from and he promises to get it back in a week. He meets a bunch of folks he uses to get it from, he feels guilty, he makes it good again, you know the drill.
While I don't think it's bad, I'd say that Over The Hedge has enough meat on it to be passable as innocent entertainment without any objectionable elements in it. On par with the first Madagascar movie.