It isn't the comic strip

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2006)

Over the hedge, the comic strip is a witty commentary of modern life as seen from the point of view of native creatures living just over the hedge from suburbia.
This is not the movie though. In many I feel characters are true to the comic strip, but the story is...well this is a spoiler...about a group of wacky characters coming to understand their own and each other's values and working together as a team or family to solve a series of wacky problems.
It starts when R.J. tries to steal some food from a bear, gets caught but loses on the food. He has one week to get it all back. So he enlists a group animals just woken from hibernation to find their forest has been taken over by "the hedge".
There is a psychotic suburban home owner and a over the topic pest exterminator.
It is good children's entertainment of the type we have seen many times before.