![]() ![]() Human activity is generally presented as a boon to the animals, that while suburban sprawl is destroying their forest home, the junk food that people consume and discard in copious amounts is a glorious trade-off. RJ: This is an SUV, which humans use because they are slowly losing their ability to walk. ![]() Although the movie, based on a comic strip, is about a gang of woodland creatures trying to survive in an expanding suburban landscape, any pro-environmental messages in the film are limited to harmless jabs, like this one: But of course global warming activists are thrilled by it, while opponents have been busy viciously condemning it.įinally, on the milder side comes Over the Hedge, which yes I have actually seen. OVER THE HEDGE SQUIRREL MOVIEThe film seemed harmless enough, but some critics took to calling the kids in the movie “terrorists” (you can run a Google search to see who said it).īut the film really inflaming the global warming wars is Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, which I also haven’t seen and so can’t comment on the movie’s POV. The first film to cause a mini-brouhaha was the kids film Hoot, which I haven’t seen but it’s about a couple of teenagers trying to protect endangered owls from being killed by greedy land developers. Environmental concerns keep popping up in the movies this year, a topic that usually inspires rabid discussion from both sides of the aisle. ![]()
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