Over The Hedge (film) - Cast

Cast

• Bruce Willis as RJ, a common raccoon who is very devious and deceptive. Despite his hard outer shell, he is revealed to have a softer personality, developing feelings of guilt over using his new-found companions to his own ends.
• Garry Shandling as Verne, a naturally tentative ornate box turtle who is the leader of the foragers. He has his own ways of doing the daily tasks, but his world is turned upside-down when RJ introduces his chaotic lifestyle into the mix. Verne genuinely cares for his "family" and will do anything to protect them. A couple of running gags throughout the movie are everyone calling him an amphibian and him correcting them with reptile (though Dwayne already knew he was a reptile, but first mistook him as an amphibian), as well as his shell constantly falling off.
• Steve Carell as Hammy, a hyperactive American red squirrel, whose mouth moves as fast as his feet. He is naive and very childish in nature, with an extremely short attention span. The double entendre of Hammy's constantly trying to find his nuts is a third running gag in the film.
• Wanda Sykes as Stella, a short-tempered, sassy striped skunk who is constantly being told by the other foragers that she needs a man in her life.
• William Shatner and Avril Lavigne as Ozzie and Heather, a Virginia opossum father and daughter who see the world from different points of view; Ozzie often embarrasses Heather when he feigns death to get away from danger. This is Avril Lavigne's first movie voice role.
• Eugene Levy as Lou, a North American porcupine father and family patriarch with an overly talkative and optimistic attitude.
• Catherine O'Hara as Penny, the porcupine family matriarch and optimistic mother; she serves as a ground between their family and the other animals.
• Shane Baumel, Sami Kirkpatrick, and Madison Davenport as Spike, Bucky and Quillo, Lou and Penny's three identical sons. They're big on video games and are the most enthusiastic about exploring the world beyond the hedge.
• Omid Djalili as Tiger, a Persian cat whose sense of smell has faded to nothing after years of his "beautiful" evolution; his Persian name is "Prince Tigerius Mahmoud Shaboz." He falls in love with Stella and comes to live with her at the end of the movie.
• Allison Janney as Gladys Sharp, a human and president of the Camelot Estates Home Owners Association. She is disgusted by animals and is very strict on H.O.A. rules; in the end, she's arrested for using illegal animal traps.
• Nick Nolte as Vincent, a massive American black bear whose ruthless behavior intimidates RJ and later, the other animals.
• Thomas Haden Church as Dwayne LaFontant, an overweight, over-zealous human pest exterminator hired by Gladys Sharp. He's often fooled by plastic garden flamingos, but has an innate sense of the animals surrounding him by sniffing. Through this, he can detect the species and even the sex of any animal that has recently been in the area.
• Brian Stepanek as Nugent, a playful Rottweiler whose only intelligible word is "Play!", other than something that sounds like barking.

Two minor human characters, appearing during the dog chase scene, were voiced by Lee Bienstock and Sean Yazbeck, two participants on The Apprentice 5 as part of a reward for winning a task.