Yet another pathetic computer animation movie

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2007)

Cute fuzzy animals, a ton of tired cultural references bordering on advertising and a "script" that's mostly an excuse to fill 75 minutes with the other two, Over The Hedge has little going for it. I really wonder when people besides me will get tired watching these mindnumbing formula movies and Disney & Dreamworks will be forced to actually put some effort into everything beside animation. Aside from Toy Story and Shrek, no computer animation movie has been able to capture me in the same way computerless animation movies used to. I couldn't give a rats arse about any of the cute fuzzy characters getting killed in the most horrible way, they meant nothing to me. And, yet again, the use of loud, pumping music attempting to stir up emotion only does the opposite, you start hoping they'll end up as shish-kebab. The cheap, spineless social commentary and humourless pushing of the ideal of the family and the morale of the story really gets boring after the n-th time. One of the worst moments was seeing Hans Zimmer's name in the Credits. He went from doing the amazing music on the Lion King to this garbage? Ugh.