Mediocre and too short

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2006)

A number of animals wake up in their log at the start of spring: hibernation is over and the quest for food begins. Their first trip through the wood brings them to a hedge. A large hedge. A hedge that wasn't there before the hibernation period began.
Somewhere nearby a raccoon attempts to steal the food of a bear that is sleeping. He fails and has to promise the bear to bring him new food because the bear will kill him otherwise.
When the raccoon and the band of animals get together the film starts rolling - and suburbia turns into the playground of the raving beasts.
Over the Hedge is an animation film made by Dreamworks Animation and the animation itself isn't half bad. It looks good enough really. The story isn't half bad either - it is too short, but not half bad. The characters are a little flat though, and don't really fill up the short time the film lasts, and there is the last problem: it is just too short.
It does have some good bits: there's a bullet time sequence that had me in tears from laughing. There is a number of funny snipes at social life in suburbia, but all in all. Nah. It just doesn't work out.
5 out of 10 good bits of food in the trash can. Mediocre stuff, could have been a lot better.