Movies like Over the Hedge
If Over the Hedge's mix of suburbian idyll, garbage and entrapment stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Over the Hedge's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Zootopia 2
2025 · Directed by Jared Bush · 108 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: animals, playful, 3d animation · Also animation and adventure
After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside…
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005 · Directed by Steve Box · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: garden, villain, 3d animation · Also adventure and animation · From the same decade (2000s)
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair…
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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Directed by Simon J. Smith · 92 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: villain, animals, 3d animation · Also family and animation
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
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Ice Age
2002 · Directed by Chris Wedge · 81 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: squirrel, villain, 3d animation · Also animation and comedy · From the same decade (2000s)
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
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The Secret Life of Pets 2
2019 · Directed by Chris Renaud · 86 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: villain, 3d animation · Also animation and comedy
Max the terrier must cope with some major life changes when his owner gets married and has a baby. When the family takes a trip to the countryside, nervous Max has numerous run-ins with canine-intolerant cows, hostile…
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 · Directed by Carlos Saldanha · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: villain, 3d animation · Also animation and comedy · From the same decade (2000s)
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty…
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Trouble
2019 · Directed by Kevin Johnson · 88 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: squirrel, 3d animation · Also animation and adventure
A pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children and must learn how to survive on the big-city streets.
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The Revenant
2015 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: grizzly bear, forest, animals
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Ooops! Noah Is Gone...
2015 · Directed by Toby Genkel · 85 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: animals, 3d animation · Also animation and adventure
It's the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, Nestrians aren't allowed.
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The Secret Life of Pets
2016 · Directed by Chris Renaud · 86 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: animals, 3d animation · Also animation and comedy
The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.
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WALL·E
2008 · Directed by Andrew Stanton · 98 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: garbage, 3d animation · Also animation and family · From the same decade (2000s)
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.
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Swapped
2026 · Directed by Nathan Greno · 102 min8.9
Why you'll like itShares: 3d animation · Also adventure and animation
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back.