Complementing this track are five behind-the-scenes galleries showcasing the character and set designs, initial sketches and storyboards. They talk more about the unique challenges of this project (still mostly "fur and foliage") as well as the process of developing the story. Older children who fancy a career in animation should check out the film commentary by co-directors Tim Johnson and Karey Kilpatrick and producer Bonnie Arnold.
For educational value there's a montage of pop-up animal facts (dubbed Critter 411) and printable activities accessible via DVD-ROM. You can torture Hammy a little more in a set-top game based on a scene from the film where RJ tries to guide him in disabling a house alarm. It's a rather twisted yet entertaining experiment to see what happens when Hammy, the hyperactive squirrel (Carrell), happens upon a v-shaped piece of wood.
Thomas Haden Church lends his voice to Dwayne the exterminator in a spoof infomercial, encouraging people to "Make your own hours! Be your own boss!" and "Vent your bitterness towards society on animals!" Meanwhile RJ makes a Big Brother-style home video in Hammy's Boomerang Adventure. It's the animated extras that liven up this otherwise frugal DVD release. Even so, he insists he has nothing in common with the tortoise except that "we sound alike". We get to see him along with the likes of Wanda Sykes and Steve Carrell thrashing about in the sound booth, but Garry Shandling (who plays Verne) is considerably more laidback. The computer bods confess they were especially narked by copious 'hugging' scenes, which required them to write new programmes for the ruffling of said fur.īruce Willis calls RJ the racoon "the Cary Grant of the animal kingdom," in Meet The Cast. This is examined in more depth in The Tech Of Over The Hedge. Bringing his characters to three-dimensional life presented many challenges for the animation team, but most daunting of all was designing convincing fur. A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating.and learns a lesson about family himself. With Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes. Co-directors Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick reveal the roots of the story in an eco-minded comic strip by T Lewis. Over the Hedge: Directed by Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick. It harvested $155m in international ticket sales - which is good, but small potatoes compared to Shrek 2's haul of $436m.Ī small cluster of featurettes accompanies the film on this Special Edition DVD, including Behind The Hedge. Critics were satisfied more than bowled over by DreamWorks' formulaic approach, but the film scored highly with moviegoers. So despite his uneasy feeling, Verne joins two porcupine parents (Catherine OHara and Eugene Levy), a feisty skunk (Wanda Sykes), a hyperactive squirrel (Steve. Verne is the cautious leader of a family of critters (possums, squirrels.
Summary: A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating.and learns a lesson about family himself.Bruce Willis voices a wily racoon in Over The Hedge, a " frothy but entertaining" toon caper about woodland creatures in an endangered habitat. How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Over The Hedge in Australia + release. Genres: animation, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy There, there, that's where the squirrel attacked us, and he had like rabies or something, and then there was this gross, naked amphibian thing.