Metacritic Movie Ratings
Over the Hedge Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  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.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  The vividly animated film -- based on a comic strip by Michael Fry and T. Lewis -- has an appealing balance of comic bits and exhilarating action sequences.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  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.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Offers plenty of modest pleasures.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

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

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• 60

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Despite a sprinkling of laughs and eye-catching moments, this adaptation of a popular comicstrip reps a middling effort from the house that "Shrek" built, a rather narrowly conceived tale that makes only modest hay from the overworked conflict between wildlife and encroaching humans.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust

  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.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  There is no poetry here and little thought.

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