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The Scottie
King Albert!
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:04 pm
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Location: The Happiest City on Earth
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Joe wrote: Scott V. wrote: I thought it was better than the trailers make it good.
This was far better than Shark Tale and Madagascar. Also, the First Flight cartoon was just plain beautiful (could this be an Oscar contender).
As for the movie, good storytelling and characters.
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Movie: A-
Flight: A What's the Flight cartoon you speak of? There wasn't a short film shown before it where I saw it. The last such occurrence was the "Gopher Broke" short I saw before Doogal (Better than the film itself although it copies Ice Age's Scrat). It was only shown on 400 prints of Over the Hedge, and they are only shown in LA and NY. _________________Visit My Youtube Account and here is what you will see.    and many more.
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm
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Location: Arlington, VA
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It was soooooooo cute.
And it's really nice to see a quality animated movie after suffering through Robots, Shark Tale and Madagascar. B+
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Dkmuto
Forum General
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:00 am
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I'm feeling like I'm swimming against the mainstream a lot these days.
Don't know how I feel about that.
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Bradley Witherberry
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:13 pm
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Location: Planet Xatar
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Dkmuto wrote: I'm feeling like I'm swimming against the mainstream a lot these days.
Don't know how I feel about that. Don't worry, I know the feeling - just remember, you're swimming away from the waterfall...
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Andrew
Lover of Bacon
Joined: Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:05 pm
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Location: Sherwood Forest, UK
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This one really surprised me! Utterly fantastic, the best 'kids film' since the incredibles. Hammy is quite probably the funniest character ever, i haven't laughed so hard in a long long time.
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am
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I thought that by and large the film was pretty clever, and it's much better then all these horrid CGI films that studios have been excreting lately. Definitely closer to Pixar or Shrek territory. B+
I will say though that I found Hammy to be an irritating, completely one-note character. He only had a single line that I didn't cringe at, and it was maybe the only one not played for laughs. Thank god he didn't have any more screen time then they gave him, I just don't get how everyone is so enamoured over a character who did nothing but act hyper and make gross noises.
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matatonio
Teh Mexican
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 pm
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Location: In good ol' Mexico
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That was really cute, very funny and quite clever! I loved the story, the characters especially Hammy he was the best of the bunch.
Hopefully Dreamworks continues to make great animated films like this one.
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DIB2
All Star Poster
Joined: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:57 am
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Location: Anchorage, AK
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Dreamworks Second best CGI flick IMO, only toped by Shrek
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm
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Location: ville-marie
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Occasionally funny but really just another clichéd, heartwarming, mediocre animated flick. I liked a lot of the voice work and the animation, but the story doesn't really set out to do anything more than hammer home its message. Plus there weren't a lot of witty jokes - it was mostly just slapstick, which, apart from being executed well, got to be a bit much. There were a few moments that shown through as comic brilliance, but they were few and far between. I thought Steve Carell did the best work by far. Is there anything this guy can't do?
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
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Location: Bonn, Germany
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It's fun and it's mostly funny. The animation is okay, ntohing special and I wouldn't say that it's a great flick, but it's enjoyable enough and certainly much better than the likes of Open Season, Robots or The Wild. Hammy pretty much steals the show from all other characters here. I think it was a bit too clichéd in parts, but there were also some truly enjoyable moments to be had.
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insomniacdude
I just lost the game
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:00 pm
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 Re: Over the Hedge It's decent. An improvement over the Shrek sequels and Madagascar, which were pretty painful. Gary Shandling has the charisma of a box of Q-Tips, but all of the other voice actors did pretty well. Bruce Willis did great. The opening bit with RJ trying to get the chips from the vending machine was brilliant. There were a few lulls in the movie, and few really laugh out loud moments (aside form Hammy) but overall it was consistently cute and much of the humor did the job.
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
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Re: Over the Hedge Over the Hedge isn't too ambitious, but it achieves its goal of being a creative and fun heist comedy for kids, with great vocal performances, compelling characters, and a lack of schmaltz.
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