Over the Hedge

I brought the two youngest to see Over the Hedge last night and I thought I'd share my thoughts on the movie.

The movie wasn't bad, it wasn't great, to use a Belichick phrase, "It was what it was." It had a very good cast with the closest A-Lister being Bruce Willis. The rest of the cast had names you knew but names of actors who in the 70's would have been waiting for calls to guest star on Love Boat. You had Gary Shadling, Steve Carrell, the never funny Wanda Sykes, Nick Nolte, Thomas Hayden Church, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney and in a brilliant piece of casting - William Shatner as an over-acting possum.

What put this movie over the top from being a good movie to a better than good movie was the soundtrack of songs by Ben Folds. At the end - Ben Folds does a cover of The Clash's Lost in a Supermarket (which my kids know all the words to from our long car drives and daddy having control of the CD player).

It is also interesting to note the number of animated or computer generated movies that will be coming out soon. By my count there are 3 or 4 coming out in the next 6 months alone. Animated movies are the new Western.

All in all - Over the Hedge was just good family fun.