Dreamworks Animation stealing from SEGA?

[christhegamer]

It may have just been me, but I could've swore that DW's new movie, Over the Hedge, had stolen it's title idea from sega. I've provided some picture below for you to decide (they are'nt very good; see the commercial for a better understanding):

DreamWork's Over the Hedge:

http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/over_the_hedge.jpg

SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002SVNY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
(may need a better pic.)

Did Dreamworks steal the idea? and if so, Will SEGA get off their lazy butts to stop it?

[Pantechnicon]

:image:

We don't get to use this one enough around here.

[Roi]

http://www.impawards.com/2006/thumbs/imp_over_the_hedge.jpg

You mean the name 'HEDGE'.. ?

[anagrama]

:image:

We don't get to use this one enough around here.

Cutting & pasting the url works. But I still don't see the reference unless it's just the fact that they both feature hedgehogs :?

[mydjsobad]

Same here, I thought he might have meant the text formatting and font before I actually saw the picture, but upon it's loading, I realized that they're not even similar.

[n8littlefield]

I don't know - a slick racoon and a cowardly turtle working together sounds like Sly Cooper more than Sonic!

[Sniderman]

*sigh*

Over the Hedge is based on the comic strip of the same name. Here ya go:

http://www.hedgeweb.com/

[Kitsune Sniper]

*sigh*

Over the Hedge is based on the comic strip of the same name. Here ya go:

http://www.hedgeweb.com/

Wait a sec, I've actually read this strip once or twice and found it cute... but make it an animated feature? Worse, an animated feature I knew nothing about until LAST WEEKEND when I saw these characters in Wal-Mart ads?

Methinks it'll bomb. Badly. :(

[roushimsx]

I know, I know.. hotlinking is more fun than actually taking 5 seconds to upload the image to some website like Imageshack or Photobucket (especially when they make it so painful to transfer the image over, what with firefox plugins and everything that automatically handle it).

So yea, I'm curious how they're ripping off of Sega other than both images seem to have a lot of black in them.

[crazyjackcsa]

I'm with ya Chris! It makes sense to me! See Sega made a game involving a blue HEDGEhog that runs really quick and has to see his home world from an evil Doctor guy. Dreamworks made a movie about a bunch of animals none of which are hedgehogs (at least in the poster) that travel over the HEDGE to explore the world of the humans. Come on people its the same exact thing! I smell a lawsuit!

[jajaja]

Isnt the animal with the binoculars the hedgehog?

I dont see any simularity with this movie and Sonic tho.

[Darren870]

Looks like a porcupine to me...but it could be...i guess.

SUE!

[Daltone]

The "Over The Hedge" font looks like something out of a Sonic game? I don't know.. I'm clutching at straws here..

I even watched the trailer, and I'm still not sure what you mean exactly. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/overthehedge/hd/)

[crazyjackcsa]

The creature with the binoculars is a Porcupine. The text is a different font as well, take a gander at the "E" in particular. Sonic is just regular text, the Over the hedge seems to have a style to it.

Strange that the thread starter hasen't been back yet to clear up what he meant.

[ice1605]

Of course it isn't, but it wouldn't have surprised me, as Dreamworks supposedly steals from Disney.