The best of a poor mix available at the cinema this weekend (well, after I eliminated everything I'd already seen).
I was actually pleasantly surprised. It was genuinely funny at times and kept my attention. Not too many jokes for the adults, but I still guffawaed through it.
Some odd voice casting though. Bruce Willis as the racoon I could understand, but William Shatner as the possum? And Avril Lavagne as his daughter?!?
Basic plot is given away in the trailer. A bunch of animals wake up from hibernation to find half their forest has been developed into suberbia. As usual, there's a subplot I won't go into, but the scene with the dog and the gas tank is comedy genius. And the hyper-active squirrel is hillarious.
There's possibly a message about wasteful humans and their eating habits in there, but it's unlikely the kids will pick up on this.
Only spoilt slightly by hearing that Bruce Willis was a bit of a jerk on the Radio 1 show interviewing him about it this morning. Still, it was 3am, so maybe he was entitled.
OQs:
"CORK?!?"
"Muhahaha!- Did I say that out loud?"
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