In this latest offering from Dreamworks Animation, they’re making quite an effort at stealing the thunder from Pixar. Actually, they probably couldn’t do quite as good a job if Pixar’s latest effort (the less-than-stellar Cars) wasn’t as poor an outing. Nonetheless, this is quite good.

This is the tale of RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis), a scavenging raccoon who decides to raid a bear’s stash and ends up waking him up in the process. The bear doesn’t like this too much, and the food gets smashed by a truck, so RJ ends up having to replace all the food – in less than week – so he runs to the only source available: The tract homes springing up nearby, and the animals that are being displaced and have just woken up from their own hibernation to help him get the job done.

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Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) doesn’t have too many friends. He lives alone in an apartment filled with all sorts of collectible dolls and comic books and video games and all the sorts of things you might have if you lived on your own until you were 40. He tries to pass himself off as one of the guys, but they all suspect something just isn’t right, and they just can’t put their finger on it. They suspect he is gay or a serial killer. But it’s something much worse.

You see, Andy is a virgin. So the guys at the store make a pact to try and take care of Andy’s little “problem”. In fact, everyone tries to take care of Andy’s problem.

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