This cast is filled with comedy pros, from Shandling and Steve Carell (whose hyperactive
squirrel Hammy steals the movie) to the dynamic duo of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (think Frances McDormand and her three - cent stamp husband from «Fargo»), and damned if they're given anything to work with.
Garry Shandling barely registers as displaced leader Verne the turtle, but support comes from Steve Carell (hilariously zippy as
squirrel Hammy), Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as porcupines, Wanda Sykes as a skunk, and William Shatner as a possum who's an expert at playing dead (get it?).
The dynamics between the varied characters are wonderful, from the father possum teaching his daughter how to play dead to the irrepressibly energetic
squirrel Hammy (voiced almost unrecognisably by Steve Carell of The 40 Year Old Virgin fame).
Not exact matches
There is a scene in DreamWorks Animation's Over the Hedge when
Hammy (voiced by Steve Carell), an already - hyperactive
squirrel, chugs a can of the most caffeinated cola on the market.
These animals once ate leaves and roots and things, but all that has changed since
Hammy the
squirrel (Steve Carell) discovered nacho chips.
And so he talks a group of forest creatures, including a turtle, a skunk and a
squirrel named
Hammy to join him in going «over the hedge» and into a new neighborhood of homes so they can get some human food.