Over the Hedge Critic Reviews

There is actually an occasional moment of inspiration, but as an experience, the movie doesn't hog much shelf space in the memory.Read the full review

Not at the level of "Finding Nemo" or "Shrek," but is a lot of fun, awfully nice to look at, and filled with energy and smiles.Read the full review

The visual and verbal jokes are as bouncy and multilevel (hip height for adults, knee-slap-size for kids) as we have come, no doubt selfishly, to expect from DreamWorks.Read the full review

The disappointingly pedestrian computer-animated Over the Hedge will be more entertaining for little tykes than their older siblings and parents, and would not seem out of place on Saturday morning television.Read the full review

Solid family entertainment, and it's better than 2006's previous tepid animated releases.Read the full review

This has to be the first children's film to weave a Grand Theft Auto joke into the script -- and like most things in the movie, it's pretty amusing.Read the full review

A backyard ecological comedy outfitted with some fine, silly slapstick and clever animal characters.Read the full review

There is no poetry here and little thought.Read the full review

Over The Hedge stands out as genuinely witty and even a little barbed. Its chipper, sneering outsider's look at suburban sprawl and conformity isn't going to change the world, but it's still self-aware enough to be reasonably smart.Read the full review