Over the Hedge

Really, really funny. So many people in the audience were laughing out loud - adults & kids. It really spoke to the "suburbinazation" of the wilderness - which struck a chord with me b/c I'm so conflicted about my recent embrace of suburbia. The woodland creatures awake from their hibranation to find a "scary thing" (huge subdivision-framing hedge) and that 1/2 of their forest is gone. A raccoon from the nearby park leads the woodland creatures into & out of the suburbs to collect food he owes a bear, hilarity ensues, yada, yada, yada ...

It strikes me that this is the first year there will be actual competition for the "best animated feature" oscar. Usually it's a blowout, but so far we've got Curious George & Over the Hedge, with Cars opening in a couple weeks - from Pixar, it's bound to be good. There has been other animated stuff this year, but these are the tops IMO.

[poky]

Oooh. We got to see a preview of this a couple weeks ago (a friend works for HP and got us in to their special screening). Loved it. Been a fan of the comic forever, and thought they did a great job adapting the idea to a cute storyline. So many cheap laughs that were so *funny* even though they were cheap, and so many were just for adults, too (no way kids know why the cat yelling "stella" like that was funny!) I also loved that the rottweiller was scary but not MEAN, just over-exuberant and playful.

[mommax3]

We really liked this one! The people who voiced the characters all did a good job. I liked it better than "Chicken Little". We also really liked "Hoodwinked" which recently came out on dvd. I can't remember if it has been reviewed or not......I'll check!

Sally

[Auspicious]

We saw it this weekend and also loved it. The audience was really cracking up!