When he accidentally awakens the bear, RJ not only loses control of the wagon (it plummets from the cave, down a mountainside into traffic), but winds up with a dire threat: he must replace the goodies or else. RJ has previously arrived at this discovery by something resembling dire circumstance: he’s been busted trying to steak a red wagon loaded with packaged goodies from a hibernating bear, Vincent (Nick Nolte). Even better, they toss all their abundant leftovers into big shiny barrels, just waiting for little animals to open and explore. This is certifiably heaven on earth, the suburbs, where humans spend all their time preparing to consume and consuming and recovering from too much consuming (“These guys love to eat!” notes RJ).
And indeed, in the precisely rendered, sensationally multicolored, spastically energetic Over the Hedge, Verne is right.Īs if to underline, his guide to this other side, RJ the raccoon (Bruce Willis) begins to demonstrate the many advantages of the suburbs, for this is where they’ve landed, along with a pack of other adorable woodsy creatures: RJ even appears to walk on water, as he steps over the decorative tiles in a pool. “The grass seems to be greener over here.” So notes the skeptical turtle Verne (voiced by Garry Shandling) when he arrives on the other side of the hedge, mere steps from his cozy-earth-toney abode in the diminishing woods.
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