Over The Hedge Page #6

Synopsis: RJ, a raccoon who needs food, accidentally takes food from a hungry bear named Vincent and he wants his food to be found in exactly the same place in a week. He finally finds that an animal family, with a tortoise named Verne as their leader, could help him restore the food from the suburbia, the gateway to the good life. But little does RJ know, there is a woman who has recently hired an exterminator to try to hunt them down.
Production: Dreamworks
  6 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG
Year:
2006
83 min
$155,019,340
Website
14,762 Views


Skunk!

Yeah, that. Sorry you have to see this.

Fire in the hole!

- Oh, my...

- This smell doesn't bother you?

No. This face was bred for beauty.

I cannot smell a thing.

You can't smell?

To the door! Go, go, go, go, go, go!

- Run!

- This way!

Let's party.

Bunnies!

Flee, my love.

Run, that way. Outside!

Move, kids! Oome on!

Buenos das, reptile.

You've just been verminated.

You stink.

That's because you let them

into my... house!

- Those...

- Hey, Nancy, stop your honkin'.

These little guys will be

disposed of quickly and humanely.

No! Not humanely.

As inhumanely as possible.

It was a pleasure

doing business with you, ma'am.

- What's he gonna do to us, Mama?

- I don't know, baby.

I don't wanna die, Dad. Not for real.

There, there, there, sweetheart.

We'll be OK.

You were right about him, Verne.

We shoulda listened. Sorry there.

No.

I knew we couldn't trust him,

and I got us into this.

I should've known better.

Wow!

Vincent?

So I was on my way

down here to kill you.

But I stopped to watch the show,

and I gotta say...

...that, right there,

is a thing of beauty.

That is the most vicious, deceitful,

self-serving thing I've ever seen.

Olassic RJ.

You take the food,

and they take the fall.

You keep this up,

you're gonna end up just like me.

Having everything you ever wanted.

But I already had that.

What, them? Who are you kidding?

You said it yourself,

you're a family of one.

Always will be.

It's how guys like you and me survive.

So a few saps got hurt in the process.

Tough. That's life.

Trust me, you don't need them.

Actually, I do.

And right now, they really need me.

So I really need this!

RJ!

What the?

- There goes my back again.

- Are you OK?

You sorry sack of rat dung.

Whoa, Stella, this is a rescue.

I'm rescuing you.

I'm gonna gas you so hard

your grandchildren'll stink.

- Bear!

- What's that?

- Bear!

- Hair?

- Bear!

- Dare?

- Bear!

- Oh, bear!

What?

- We're out of control!

- We can drive.

- It's just like Auto-Homicide 3!

- What?

Verne, let me in!

Wrong button! Wrong button!

- Please select destination.

- Take us home! Take us to the log!

Previous destination selected.

Make a legal U-turn.

We got it!

- Hammy! Let me in!

- Not listening to RJ.

Kids, lose that bear!

What weapons do we have?

- We've got a hammer.

- Oool.

You little...

Thank you. Yes, yes! Hey!

- Let me in, let me in!

- No! Ring-tailed charlatan!

Ozzie!

He's trying to help us. Just let him in.

- After what he did to us?

- But he came back.

And he brought a bear.

- No fighting while we're driving.

- We will turn this van around, mister.

He started it.

I'm telling you, he's trying to help us.

But, Verne, you're the one

who always says trust your tail.

But it's not tingling.

- Why didn't you say so?

- Hey!

Thank you, thank you.

- You're dead, RJ!

- Duck!

- And your friends are next.

- Look out!

Make an immediate left turn.

Bonus points!

Yeah!

RJ!

Yeah!

- Look out.

- High score.

No, no, no, no!

You have arrived.

Everybody all right?

- Oome on!

- We've gotta go, we've gotta go!

The old jazz dance injury.

- Oome on, come on. Quillo!

- Go, go, go.

- Did we make it?

- That was close!

- All right!

- Are we here?

Penny? The kids here? Hammy?

Scary clown.

Look out!

A weed hacker, Verne. A weed hacker!

- Hey!

- Up, up, go up.

Show your little rat faces.

Filthy creatures.

Stay in the woods where you belong.

Watch out!

You guys wanna party, do ya?

All right, then, let's party.

- Mom!

- Kids!

Penny, Lou, look out! Down!

That's it! Verne, get everybody

out of here. I'll distract him.

- Are you crazy? He'll kill you.

- Well, I'm the one he wants.

Take care of your family, Verne.

I intend to. The whole family.

- There's got to be something we can do.

- There's no time.

Hammy!

Hey, Vincent. You were right.

With a Spuddie,

enough just isn't enough.

RJ!

Now, Hammy. Go, go, go!

OK...

I got the cookie.

- That's the...

- The Depelter Turbo.

Prepare for a lot of stinging.

Oh, no! No, no! No, no! No!

Ouch!

That stung like I knew it would!

- Yeah!

- All right!

Good job, everybody. That's teamwork.

Oome here, Hammy, come here.

You are a genius, my boy.

Oh, thank you.

And, Verne,

don't you ever fix this shell!

Yeah. Glad it's working for ya.

Take it off, give it back.

Here we go, off to the

Rockies for you, Smoky.

Now, you do realize

that was a Depelter Turbo?

Officer, please. It was that Verminator.

He sold it to me.

This has nothing to do with me.

Hey, hey, it was in your yard.

Your name's on the contract,

so tell it to the judge.

- No! It's not my fault! Let go of me!

- Ma'am...

I can't be arrested! I'm the president

of the homeowner's association!

Take her down!

She's getting away!

- We got a twitcher! Watch it! Ma'am!

- Get her!

- Stop that!

- Oan I get help over here?

Somebody get a hold of her legs!

- Play?

- Oh, no!

No, no! No, no!

High five, Hammy!

- Yes!

- It worked!

We did it!

- Oh, yes!

- Stella!

- Stella!

- Over here, Tiger.

Oh, Stella.

So this is the outdoor woods? I like it.

Oome on, big boy.

You're coming with me.

You know, RJ, just for the record,

if you had told us that all

that food you were trying to get

was to pay back an angry bear,

we would've given it to you.

- Really?

- Yeah, that's what families do.

They look out for each other.

- I've never had anything like that.

- I know. But believe me, this...

This is the gateway to the good life.

Wish you would've told me that sooner.

Well, that's bad communication.

Also something families do.

So, what do you say?

You wanna be a part of it?

Oome here, come here.

I promised I wouldn't do this. OK.

Welcome to the family!

- Hey!

- Group hug!

OK, OK.

What a first week of spring.

Wait a minute! That means

there's only 267 days left till winter.

What are we gonna do for food?

Yes, Hammy.

I filled the log.

- Jeepers!

- What?

Look, look! I found my nuts!

That, my friends, is the object

of all human attention and devotion.

- And they call it a TV.

- Wicked cool!

Humans feel an inner need

to connect with the world around them.

That is super-duper.

They also feel a need

to sit on their fat butts.

Watching TV fulfills both needs

at the same time.

Wow. Interesting.

Oome on, kids. Family time there,

in front of the TV. Got your snack food?

Buy a vowel. Buy a vowel!

Buy a "Y". Please buy a "Y".

- I can't find the remote.

- Hey, Spikey, race ya!

- Has anybody seen the remote?

- Dad, chill.

I could do a little TV.

Today's the day we find out

if the baby is gifted

or if Saxon is really an alien.

Like Khan in Star Trek II!

The Genesis Project

was in the hands of the Enterprise,

but Khan had his plan

to steal the invention!

- Well, that was specific.

- I saw it on TNT, a retrospective.

- Gummi Worm, anybody?

- Let me have one.

Bucky, pass this to Lou.

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Len Blum

Leonard Solomon "Len" Blum (born 1951) is an award-winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer. more…

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