Those themes have been seen in other animated films recently like Ice Age, but that doesn’t make Over the Hedge feel like it’s just recycling a plot. This sort of double crossing storyline is nothing new to animated films, particularly when RJ starts feeling at home with the other animals and they start treating him like family. Only the animal’s leader Verne, a turtle voiced by Garry Shandling, is wary of the raccoon, but even he is unaware that RJ isn’t helping them get a supply of food as much as he’s using them to get the food stash he needs to return to a hungry bear. With RJ as their guide the animals begin to understand suburbia and the new forms of food it brings, nacho chips instead of bark, cookies instead of twigs, etc. When they wake up they find a mysterious wall in the form of the hedge.
When the animals settled down for hibernation they were surrounded by woodland. There he encounters a group of foraging animals who are new to suburbia. RJ heads for the only place a raccoon can find the needed amount of food in such a short amount of time: the suburbs. The rest of the movie is fun filled age-appropriate content, nicely balanced with humor adults will appreciate and laugh at as well. It is a violent, clearly stated threat for a children’s film, but the film’s only real dark moment, which the children in the audience of my showing didn’t seem to take exception to.
When the bear awakes, he forces RJ to refill the stash within a week or he’ll kill the raccoon. “Just take what you need” RJ tells himself but, despite that intelligent thought, RJ quickly tries to load up Vincent’s entire food stash. RJ the raccoon (voiced by Bruce Willis) shows his lack of loyalty when his hunger pangs get too strong and he tries to steal food from Vincent, a bear he is supposed to be friends with. Facey Romford’s Hounds, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1865.Over the Hedge is a bit of a modern fable. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) from Robert Smith Surtees’ Mr. What matter did it make to him how she rode, confound this ugly place. Facey Romford unable to follow Lucy Somersville over a hedge. English huntswoman jumping sidesaddle over a fence, 19th century. Facey Romford’s Hounds, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1865.
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