Funniest Movie yet from Dreamworks
 

Or any other for that mater. From any Studio!

OVER THE HEDGE!!!

They got this one right! I haven't laughed so hard and so loud at a movie in ages. Up to now Ice Age was my favorite animated movie from the current crop of CGI films. But his one beats that by a huge margin.:)

If you love the old frantic nature of the Looney Tunes Cartoons, you will love Over the Hedge. All the critters are very funny but Hammie, the crazed squirrel, is the star of this movie.:cool:

If you prefer the more plodding and bathroom laced humor of Shrek, then you won't like the frantic laugh a minute pace this movie maintains for almost all of it's 1 hour 40 minute running time. And very few of the current craze of making body noises every few minutes. Only one bathroom joke from Hammie and it is very funny.

And stay through the credits for the end tag.:D

I liked it, as did my kids. I don't know if it is the funniest animated movie I've ever seen, but it is miles and miles beyond anything that has come out recently, particularly Chicken LIttle and Madagascar and The Wild and all that other drivel.

Agreed! I am loving me some Hammie!!!

Noooooooooo... We left. :(

I will say the ending made me laugh harder than any animated movie ever has -

Scrooge McSam - I sent you a PM about the last scene after the credits. I don't know how to do the hidden spoiler thing, and I would not want to give away to much on the thread.

Would you mind forwarding that to me? I didn't see it, either. My six year old had to go wee-wee!

The trailer makes me think the movie's loaded, you should pardon the expression, with fart jokes. Is this not the case? Are you people going to make me want to go see something I'd already written off?

Don't you mean that your six year old had to "whiz like a banshee"? :)

Gn2DLnd - I hope so. There are no Fart Jokes in this movie. Hammie, the crazy squirrel does a burp now and then, the skunk lets loose once or twice, and it is all very funny and not at all like the crude jokes of Shrek. I think you will like this movie a lot. The critters are very funny, the human lady that they are tormenting deserves every bit of the chaos they reign down on her.

Scaeagles - I will do that now.

I said wee-wee in honor of Hammie, who wakes up from his hibernation and says "I have to go wee-wee!".

I think he actually said,."I have to go Pee" and Marvin told him to go ahead and he zipped out of sight like a speeding bullet, then came back and said, "I think I'm done, NO" and zipped off again. A very funny way to introduce the charcter. And, it is really the only bathroom type humor I saw, and it was so fast and quick, it was really a great way to introduce Hammie.

Yes

Yes, we are

Mmmph.

Try it, you will like it. If you like animation and non stop fun humor, you will love it. I have talked to some people I know who were dead set against it, I more or less insisted on them seeing it, and they ended up laughing their butts of. They loved it. I am not saying it's the greatest movie ever, just that in this current crop of crap that keeps being thrown at us, this one it better than all the others put together.

I really enjoyed it, but would have enjoyed it more if we weren't with the people we were with.

I will definatly be buying this when it comes out on dvd. I will also not be seeing anymore movies with that family.

We had a great time. Being a huge fan of the strip I've been waiting very impatiently for this movie to appear.. but you know what?

NOTHING to do with the strip. Did I care? Not a whit. (Well it wasnt based on the strip, but it has stuff in common, but you didnt need the strip)

We loved it. They changed my beloved Sammy to Hammy, and he was a speed junkie, not a total bonehead, but man... he was fuuuuuunnnny.
Shatner as a possum???

I missed the end too, but thats okay. We'll own it as well. They'd my RJ and my Verne.
See it, I think you'll be glad you did.

The movie is actually a "prequel" to the strip showing how Verne and RJ met. And now the comic strip has renamed Sammy to Hammie. Shatner was great as the daddy Possum with his Play Dead routine channeled through Capt. Kirk. It was hilarious. I can hardly wait for the DVD.

oooooooooooooooooooooh..... I getcha
OK, that I can handle. :)

Ok, now you are all making me regret sending the kids to this movie without me! All the adults wanted to see Da Vinci Code so we sent the kids to Over the Hedge.
I was going to wait until it came out on video but now....

I would highly reccomend seeing it with other people in the theater on the big screen. It is worth it.

Today while taking a trip up to Unvirsal Hollywood for something to do for a couple of hours, I found a figure set from the movie, These are not action figures, but smaller, about 3 to 4 inches in height, made of plastic and are mostly non poseable display figures. The set of 4 includes Vern, R.J, the skunk and Hammie. I got onw as it's the only thing I have seen so far from the movie. I wish they would do some plush.

They did. The other child we saw it with was clutching a stuffed Hammie the entire movie.

We saw it today and I thought it was cute. Definitely better than Chicken Little, that's for sure. I thought Shrek was more cleverly written, but this is really a very sweet movie for all age groups. We weren't able to hang around to the very end, as the Girl had to go...you know, but I figure we'll wind up buying the DVD and we can see it then.