Well of course he didn’t, this is a kid’s film with good morals, family values and good humour, so the finale is how he goes back to rescue his friends, get the bear captured and Gladys and the exterminator taken away by police. The bear points out RJ’s caged friends being loaded onto the exterminator’s truck and congratulates RJ on being as bad as he is. Selfishly, RJ sets about his plan to steal the food and it is nearly perfectly executed until a final need for Spuddies crisps means the foraging animals are caught by the exterminator, while RJ himself escapes with the food to meet Vincent. With one day left before Vincent arrives and splits in the ranks, as most of the group side with him against Verne after the destruction of the food, RJ is left with the decision of whether to go against his new “family” and just use them to steal back the food for the bear from Gladys Sharp’s house, leaving them with nothing for themselves. Sensing his group is in danger, Verne sets out to return the food they have stolen already to try and get things back to normal, the day before RJ was due to steal the food to give to Vincent, and Verne and RJ argue while the food is destroyed again, this time by a neighbourhood dog. Only Verne is concerned but the rest are seduced by the cheesy orange wonders of nacho chips and agree to stealing from the humans which goes well until they encounter Home Owner’s Association president, Gladys Sharp (Allison Janney), who calls in an over-zealous exterminator (Thomas Hayden Church) and gets lots of traps in the garden to catch the unwary animals. However, he quickly warms to the group, convincing them about the "wonders" of human kind Over the Hedge and the ease of stealing and gathering food from them. At this point they meet RJ who explains about the hedge and the forest and offers to help them gather food, reckoning that he will steal it from them at the end of the week to pay back his debt to Vincent. They discover that their forest has almost all gone while they were sleeping as it was cut down for the new housing development and all they have left is a tiny patch of trees surrounded by a big hedge, which they mistake for a monster and call it Steve because “that’s a good monster name” (sorry boss). With no time to enjoy the spring weather, they start to look for food for the next winter, as they were “only nine berries away” from running out this year. Led by the tentative turtle Verne (Garry Shandling), the animals include the hyperactive squirrel Hammy (Steve Carell), the sassy skunk Stella (Wanda Sykes), the porcupines Penny and Lou (Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy), along with their triplet sons, Spike, Bucky and Quillo (Shane Baumel, Sami Kirkpatrick and Madison Davenport), and the possum Ozzie (William Shatner) and his daughter Heather (Avril Lavigne). Meanwhile, a group of foraging animals wake up from their hibernation.
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