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WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HEDGE?
RJ and Vince reveal the secret in this new animation feature from DreamWorks, coming on the Italian Silver screens on October 27. (In North America “Over the Hedge has been released on May 19th, 2006)
(Over the Hedge, USA 2006; Cartoons; 83’; Produz.: DreamWorks Animation SKG; Distribuz.: United International Pictures)
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Titolo in italiano: La Gang del Bosco (English Version) by MARTA SBRANA (Canada)
Titolo in lingua originale:
Over the Hedge
Anno di produzione:
2006
Anno di uscita:
2006
Regia: Tim Johnson
Karey Kirkpatrick
Sceneggiatura:
Len Blum, David Hoselton, Karey Kirkpatrick, Lorne Cameron
Soggetto: Based on Over the Hedge, a comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis.
Cast: RJ (original voice Bruce Willis )
Verne (original voice Garry Shandling Hammy)
Stella (original voice Wanda Sykes )
Ozzie (original voice William Shatner )
Vincent (original voice Nick Nolte )
Gladys (original voice Allison Janney )
Penny (originale voice Catherine O’Hara )
Lou (originale voice Eugene Levy )
Heather (originale voice Avril Lavigne )
Musica: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Costumi: Jane Poole
Scenografia: Kathy Altieri
Scheda film aggiornata al:
25 Novembre 2012
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Sinossi:
Just whose backyard is it, anyway?
Spring has sprung, and Verne and his woodland friends awaken from their long winter's nap to discover that a tall, green "thing" has mysteriously cropped up right through the middle of their home. Enter RJ, an opportunistic raccoon, who explains that the world beyond the hedge is the "gateway to the good life" where peculiar creatures called humans live to eat, rather than eat to live.
Suspicious and even a little jealous of RJ, the ever-cautious Verne wants to keep his blended family safely on their side of the hedge. But, proving the adage that one man's garbage is another man's—or rather animal's—treasure, the manipulative RJ tries to convince the woodland band that there is little to fear and everything to gain from their over-indulgent new neighbours. Eventually, RJ and Verne form an unlikely friendship as they learn to co-exist with—and even exploit—this strange new world called suburbia.
Heading up an all-star voice cast, Bruce Willis (the Die Hard franchise, Sixth Sense) is the voice of the mischievous con-artist raccoon named RJ, and Emmy winner Garry Shandling (TV's The Larry Sanders Show, It's Garry Shandling's Show) voices the overprotective turtle named Verne in the computer-animated comedy Over the Hedge.
Rounding out the voice cast of "Over the Hedge" are: Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, TV's The Office) as a hyperactive squirrel named Hammy; two-time Emmy winner William Shatner (TV's Boston Legal) as Ozzie, a possum who excels at playing dead with a melodramatic flair; chart-topping recording artist Avril Lavigne as Ozzie's daughter, Heather; Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy (both A Mighty Wind, Best in Show), who are paired as the porcupine couple Penny and Lou, with a brood of little porcupine mouths to feed; comedienne Wanda Sykes as a sassy skunk named Stella; two-time Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte (Affliction, The Prince of Tides) as a bear named Vincent; and Omid Djalili (Casanova) as a spoiled housecat named Tiger. On the human side, four-time Emmy winner Allison Janney (TV's The West Wing) plays Gladys, the president of the local homeowners' association, who isn't about to see her neighbourhood overrun by wildlife; and Oscar® nominee Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) as the Verminator, whom Gladys hires to rid the area of our woodland heroes.
Based on the popular comic strip by Michael Fry and T Lewis, Over the Hedge is being directed by Tim Johnson (Antz) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run screenwriter), making his directorial debut. Bonnie Arnold (Toy Story, Tarzan) is producing.
Commento critico (a cura di MARTA SBRANA (Canada))
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A simple story line filled with cute, furry and prickly animals. Based on the critically acclaimed comics “Over the Hedge” by Michael Fry and T. Lewis comes on the silver screen a movie just right for kids and child-at-heart grown-ups. The story, very easy to follow, is fun, with a lot of very hilarious gags; absolutely well drawn creatures but it lacks of the bad guy, well in this case, the bear. The audience doesn’t get to see him for too long, he’s just the cause of the beginning of the story and then the “hot-potato”, is passed to RJ, a selfish, opportunist but most of all lonely racoon. The humans are just something used to let the plot flow smoothly but it would have been cute even just watch the animals deal with their everyday life. As in every animation movie there’s a moral to be learned, this time |
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not to hard to understand: the pillars that are the basic for the perfect society: friendship, trust and why not less food for us human.
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