Pun Salad

I really like the old Liberty Meadows comic Frank Cho did a few years back. Set at a wildlife sanctuary, the talking animals have all sorts of wild adventures, and there's a romantic subplot between nerdish vet Frank and the totally hot assistant Brandy. Lots of innocent double entendre, slapstick antics, and general good fun. It would make a great movie.

And I said all that to say this: someone should give Frank Cho a few hundred pounds of money, and team him up with the Over the Hedge filmmakers to make it happen.

And Over the Hedge is pretty good too. It took us a while to see it (it was released back in 2006). It concerns an up-to-no-good raccoon (RJ) who's been caught filching a load of food from the local homicidal bear (Vincent). RJ dupes a small army of woodland creatures into raiding the local suburban homes, displacing their putative, sensible, turtle leader (Verne). One obnoxious suburbanite calls in a wacky exterminator. Mayhem results.

Just the voice talent alone is pretty amazing: Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Steve Carell, William Shatner (who's particularly hilarious), Nick Nolte, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara…

And, yes, this really is the fourth animated movie we watched in a row. I think that's it for the next few months, though…

Oh, wait. Cars 2.