I think many people can agree that Shark Tale is likely the worst of DreamWorks’ animated movies. When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. 2/23 4K ULTRA HD™, BLU-RAY™ & DVD. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Between some startlingly bad racial caricatures (Doug E. Doug and Ziggy Marley play dreadlocked, gap-toothed jelly fish enforcers) and ugly, overly busy animation (and keep in mind this was released a year afterFinding Nemo) that turns stars like Renee Zellweger and Angelina Jolie into bizarre underwater mutants, Shark Tale was one of the few hits (it was even nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar) that Katzenberg chose not to exploit in any other arena (no sequels, television shows or spin-offs ever materialized). Settle in. Covers it for Russian Cartoons (December 4, 2017). Here are a few examples of ways you can filter the charts: The Best 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies; The Top 10 Worst 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies; The Top 20 Worst 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies It would come close a few times, but DreamWorks Animation has also had a famously rocky history and was recently purchased, wholly, by Universal (one of three different studios who have distributed DreamWorks Animation features over the years). The franchise went on to release four films, a spin-off film in Puss in Boots, three TV specials, 14 video games, and a Broadway musical production. The pacing is off too and takes way too long to get going. In 2012, DreamWorks Animation purchased Classic Media, a kind of holding tank for a number of properties, including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Lassie, George of the Jungle, and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Shark Tale can be conceived as DreamWorks’ much-too-obvious copy of Disney Pixar’s Finding Nemo, which came out the year before its 2004 release. Many who grew up watching DreamWorks Animation’s early films may be surprised to see critics’ negative reception to this enchanting, naturalistic 2D animated family/adventure, as a vast margin is set between the user score of 8.1 and the “Metascore” of 52. Writer/producer/star Jerry Seinfeld has said repeatedly that idea for Bee Movie was a pun that he shared with Katzenberg and never expected it to actually become a movie. Pixar Movies vs DreamWorks Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards. Antzwasn’t just a movie; for Pixar principals like John Lasseter and Steve Jobs, it was an affront. While the movie was nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar (it lost to genuine classic Spirited Away), it wasn’t a huge success for the animation studio, although in 2017 it inspired a computer-animated Netflix series called Spirit Riding Free that acted as a follow-up of sorts to the movie, which was dramatically remodeled into a kind of Old West My Little Pony. Over the past 25 years, DreamWorks Animation has had a huge impact on feature animation, for both good and ill, and have created a house style as easily identifiable (and marketable) as Disney or Pixar. Combine all of those complications with a largely limp, simplistic story (which borrows heavily from Pixar’s Up), uninspired characters designs, and a shopworn concept (it was the third bigfoot-themed animated feature to be released in the United States in a year) and you’ve got a labor of love that wasn’t worth the effort. In a 1991 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Alec Baldwin called Jeffrey Katzenberg “a short, bald, uppity, greedy megalomaniac” and vowed to never work with him again. Originally envisioned as an underwater noir called Sharkslayer (which makes me immediately think of the short-lived John Ritter animated series Fish City), it eventually evolved into the broadest of broad comedies. At the time of Monsters vs. Aliens’ production, Katzenberg was very heavy on 3D (he told Vanity Fair, and countless others, that “3-D is the next great revolution for film”). Beyond the extreme disinterest in historical accuracy or ethnic sensitivity (the natives are a Hispanic hodgepodge of cultures and identities) and general sloppiness of the story (credited to Aladdinscreenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio), The Road to El Dorado is just excessively dull. Chicken Run was DreamWorks Animation’s fourth production. Covers it for Girls Cartoons (November 14, 2017). (A dream sequence where Shrek’s swampy home is flooded with ogre children is scarier than any horror movie … particularly the button where Donkey has the head of a baby ogre.) How has the animation studio fared over the past 25 years? Meanwhile, Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) looks to exact revenge on the kingdom, alongside some fairy tale villains. Being a direct challenger to Disney Pixar, they have released many films that have had huge amounts of success and often take a … The animation studio finally eclipsed the best of all possible premises for one of these animated flicks by dressing a baby in a suit and putting him in a managerial position—truly innovation at its finest. I've seen them all and I might add them so stop asking me. Here’s a list of the best and the worst productions of DreamWorks Animation Studio. Despite all the content that’s branched from the first Shrek, nothing can quite beat the original. BEST MOVIES #1. He’s also written for TheGamer, Study Breaks, Uloop News and Blog Shark Tank. Nonetheless, many of the reviews on Metacritic contributing to the downfall of this cinematic journey to find the Goddess of Choas is the bland performances by voice actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Brad Pitt. Posted by Miles Ndukwe October 25, 2020 February 20, 2021 Posted in Movie Marathon Rankings Tags: dreamworks, dreamworks ranked, movie, movie marathon, movie ranking. Jim Parsons, as an annoying alien outcast and Rihanna as his human sidekick, give it their all, but the movie is too noisy, cluttered, and cutesy (hello, flying car powered by a Slurpee machine!) Snooze. And for featuring what is essentially just an animated Richard Jenkins (as the owner of a rundown hobby store). Instead, the studio chose to emphasize the sweetness over the satire (hey, first time for everything) and bet hard on the timelessness of dub step. Considering how much of the film takes place on a ship, you can feel the franchise literally treading water. (Bug’s Life remains rudimentary but gorgeous -- and that movie is similarly cursed with a Kevin Spacey performance.) For Captain Underpants: The Epic First Movie, they followed a similar formula: they developed and storyboarded the movie in house but then farmed out the animation to Mikros Image and Technicolor Animation Productions, bringing the movie in for a fraction of the normal cost. Excuses, excuses. The jaw-dropping, mostly traditionally animated movie, completed by a murderer’s row of the industry’s best (including James Baxter and future Inside Out co-director Ronnie del Carmen) is unfortunately saddled with some horrendous Bryan Adams songs and a chintzy Hans Zimmer score (seriously, the use of what can only be described as “shopping mall synths” is really something), which become even more problematic when you start to wonder, is this whole thing a metaphor for slavery? RELATED: The 10 Best DreamWorks Animated Movies From The 2000s (According To Metacritic). Katzenberg later explained that genre parodies like Shark Tale don’t travel well internationally. I believe God would protect me from that – just like I wouldn’t get AIDS.” Um, the point is that he ended up working with Katzenberg numerous times on the DreamWorks Animation side of things. Rob Minkoff, returning to animation for the first time since directing The Lion King, tries to embrace the hip, off-the-cuff DreamWorks Animation feel (there are references to “planking” and, for some reason, George W. Bush’s assertion that John Kerry was a “flip flopper”) while also paying tribute to the exaggerated art style of original creator Jay Ward. Fart jokes ahead. RELATED: 10 Animated Movies The Whole Family Can Enjoy On Valentine’s Day. The Toy Story gang has a 4th movie coming out in 2017. Most of these titles have been exploited for television and streaming series, but not Mr. Peabody and Sherman, based on the “Peabody’s Improbable History” segments of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Brad Pitt is no exception. From there it makes several jarring left turns, first when Barry bumps into a human woman (played by Renee Zellwegger) and falls in love with her and later, in a true test of the audience’s patience, when the movie transforms into a prolonged legal drama, with Barry suing the human race for their exploitation of bees. Needlessly complicated, shoddily animated, and sort of racist (the two Hispanic characters are, of course, the owners of a taco stand), Turbo represents the very worst that DreamWorks Animation has to offer: high-concept, low-IQ, loaded with pop culture references (who told Katzenberg about memes?) Ty Burr of The Boston Globe sums the film up quite nicely as he writes, “Pitt and Pfieffer? Your email address will not be published. But it did. As a result, its box-office performance was fairly minimal, and DreamWorks rushed the musical comedy to streaming/DVD format. Writer/director Jill Culton was fired from the production, the film was retooled, and then Culton was hired back on, this time working alongside one of the filmmakers who had replaced her. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is the strangely meditative story of a wild stallion who, and this cannot be stressed enough, gets captured by the US Cavalry and forced to participate in the Indian Wars, doesn’t feature traditional dialogue (Matt Damon voices the lead horse’s inner thoughts like he’s auditioning for a Terrence Malick movie) but gets bogged down in tropes just the same. DreamWorks Animation would ultimately hit its stride thanks to its computer-animated films but with Antz, it was off to a rocky start. While audiences got to know him first as a rapper and then in the title role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith quickly became a major star on the big screen. The second chapter will most likely not reach the financial heights of its predecessor, and the franchise’s discontinuation after this chapter isn’t a very bold prediction. DreamWorks Animation has gone through its share of upheaval, with a few big successes (Shrek, Madagascar) and some notable failures. HOME. Astonishingly dull to listen to.” This opinion also applies to the film in its visual allure but lack of a further appeal. Edwin R. Leonard, CTO of DreamWorks Animation, won a special achievement award at the 2008 Annies for driving their innovative work with open-source software and Linux.. Academy Awards The plot is uninspired, the animation is rather ugly, and the characters are all pretty boring. (The animation is incredibly mechanical and unnatural.) You won't find any major movie star without some clunkers under their belt—even the best actors make mistakes. For a movie that stars Will Ferrell (in a role earmarked for Ben Stiller and later Robert Downey, Jr.), Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Tina Fey, it should be much, much better. I countdown my personal choices for the best and worst Dreamworks animation films! Bee Moviebegins as a sort of pseudo follow-up to Antz, with Seinfeld’s Barry dreaming of escaping the hive and his pre-assigned place in society. Nevertheless, critics seem to disfavor the franchise. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Nevertheless, Boss Baby did considerably well at the box office and beyond, with an approx. co-production with Pacific Data Images; DreamWorks' first computer animated feature film The Prince of Egypt: December 18, 1998: DreamWorks' first traditionally animated feature film In Dreams: January 15, 1999: co-production with Amblin Entertainment: Forces of Nature: March 19, 1999: The Love Letter: May 21, 1999: The Haunting: July 23, 1999: American Beauty BEST MOVIES #1. The movie would receive some additional attention in recent years as the subject of widespread memes, leading Seinfeld to publicly play with the idea of developing a sequel. And as wittily designed as the monster and alien characters are (Hugh Laurie’s Dr. Cockroach is a hoot), the human characters are grotesque caricatures that are painful to look at (Pixar cracked humans back with 2004’s The Incredibles). (At one point they even mock Obama’s iconic “Hope” poster, a gag that I’m sure really resonated with the children in the audience.) Abominable had a long and tortured production history, so much so that it’s a miracle it was released at all. Still, if you want an energetically animated, snappily written (by Forgetting Sarah Marshall vet Nicholas Stoller) and directed (by Turbo filmmaker David Soren) movie for the kiddies, you could do worse than Captain Underpants. How to Train Your Dragon 2 is unique from every other DreamWorks Animation film in that it is the only sequel that critics have ranked above its original. It’s confusing. If you're curious of my extended thoughts, I talked about it in Worst and Best Dreamworks movies." Originally envisioned as a more dramatic, PG-13-rated historical drama along the lines of The Prince of Egypt, it was heavily retooled several times during its five-year production, with at least two filmmakers (including Monsters, Inc. co-director David Silverman) leaving before production wrapped. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Jay Baruchel) returned to the silver screen a third time in 2019 in How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and was much beloved by viewers, but it lags slightly behind its preceding chapters in terms of both merit and financial success. 1 Worst 2 Best 3 Honorable Mentions (Best) 4 Dishonorable Mentions (Worst) 5 Trivia 5th time he covers the best and worst of something on the same video. Quite frankly, turning the intentionally flat stylization of the original series into three dimensions is an awkward fit, as Mr. Peabody (Ty Burell, who replaced Robert Downey Jr. late in production) and his adopted human child Sherman bumble around different, expensively rendered time periods. And as a spoof of superhero stories, it feels both late (after things like Mystery Man) and too early (just two years after Iron Man and The Dark Knight). This, coupled with the insistence on fish puns, pop culture references (“Baby Got Back” appears in an anthropomorphic fish universe … do fish even have butts? After a failed attempt to return to New York at the end of the first Madagascar, the gang returns for an adventure on the African continent in the awkwardly titled Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Nevertheless, Chicken Run is a much more generation-defining work of art in comparison to its, NEXT: Disney+: 10 Animated Shows You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching With The Kids, Next For this film, William Arnold wrote, “so devoid of the usual coarse Hollywood calculation that it plays like a breath of fresh air.”. The screenplay for Shrek the Third was co-written by Who Framed Roger Rabbit scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, although their cleverness is largely missing from the proceedings. Sadly this will be the last DreamWorks animated film until How to Train Your Dragon 3 in 2019. Critics Consensus: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is an improvement on the original, with more fleshed-out characters, crisper animation and more consistent humor. (He wishes he never rescued Fiona.) Director: Dean DeBlois | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron takes place in the unindustrialized American frontier, and audiences follow Spirit (Matt Damon), a Kiger mustang set on a hero’s journey, who in the process falls in love with Rain (Amanda Seyfried), an American Paint Horse. DreamWorks Animation Films Ranked from Worst to Best. This entry might as well be called It’s a Wonderful Shrek. Required fields are marked *. Actually maybe it's Kung Fu Panda all over again. It’s also notable for being the last film before the start of the long running The Penguins of Madagascar television series, which ran for a whopping 149 episodes on Nickelodeon. If you like it, that's great. Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Kimmel, and others will return for The Boss Baby: Family Business, which is set to release in September 2021. It inspired a 2018 Netflix series and a sequel, again with Baldwin, will open in 2021. The Worst of DreamWorks Animation” Other Scott says: March 27, 2018 at 10:23 am. And it’s just as forgettable. Willliam Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer also makes a good point while contributing to the majority of bad reviews levied at the film, writing how it seemed too much like a simple “merchandising scheme” rather than a movie. Why anyone thought that the one-note animated segments should be the basis for an entire animated feature is beyond me, although executives were probably delighted at the possibility of a story centered around time travel. Few films have been as heavily hyped and financially disappointing as Home. And for more critically panned films from a big star, check out The Worst Jennifer Aniston Movies of All Time, According to Critics. The vast glory that the movie garnered showered it with the first ever Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature Film. Here’s a list of the best and the worst productions of DreamWorks Animation Studio. And for another definitive list, check out our ranking of every Disney animated movie. Visually, the film was supposedly inspired by animation from the 1950s (as evidenced by the odd midcentury modern look of the family’s house), but Boss Baby is way too cluttered and busy to actually draw that connection. There you have it, a definitive list of Dreamworks movies from worst to the absolute best! Miscellaneous work. After Shrek (Mike Myers) grows annoyed at his rambunctious family, he wishes he could take it back, when leads Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohm), looking completely different than he did one movie ago (when he can be seen in the tavern), to offer up a devil’s bargain that winds up erasing Shrek’s entire life. Released during one of the studio’s more financially uncertain periods (it swapped release dates with Penguins of Madagascar at the 11th hour, which still didn’t matter much), it was buoyed by a full-court promotional campaign straight out of Katzenberg’s starriest playbook. And these gags aside, Monsters vs. Aliens is pretty fun. Now, Universal Pictures distributes DreamWorks’ movies. If DreamWorks had leaned into the strangeness of its source material (an illustrated novel by Adam Rex called The True Meaning of Smekday), Home probably would have hit harder. Not only did the strategy maximize profits but it also gave the movie a markedly different look than most DreamWorks Animation features. Home is needlessly convoluted (it takes place on an Earth where an invading alien race has harmlessly relocated the entire Earth’s population), with the same pat messages of inclusivity, transparency and forgiveness that wouldn’t be out of place on any Saturday morning cartoon. The Worst 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies Rank This Chart. Thus, the original shouldn’t warrant a sequel, but they move ahead anyway in hopes of similar box-office success, which comes despite the paying audience voicing displeasure afterward. New ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Featurette Plays Up the Buddy Action Comedy Aspect of the Disney+ Series, Every DreamWorks Animation Movie Ranked from Worst to Best, our ranking of every Disney animated movie, More The Top 50 Worst 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies; The Top 100 Worst 'DreamWorks SKG' Movies; The Best Horror Movies Of the 1980s; The Best Science Fiction Movies of 1977; The Best Comedy Movies Of the 2000s; The Most Recently Released Movies; The Most Recently Added Movies; Movies by Decade from this Chart. Critics credit the film’s spooky visual appeal, as well as its blending of deadpan humor and slapstick antics. (Lasseter claims that he clued Katzenberg into the studio’s sophomore feature when Katzenberg visited the edit bay of Toy Story.) Best | | He is also the author of “The Art of Onward” (Chronicle Books, 2020). Oriental DreamWorks (Pearl Studio) $145 million $521 million 87% 66 33 Trolls: … DreamWorks Animation’s Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas is one of their sharp 2D animated films that 90s-born fans should find amusingly familiar. Disney actually distributed DreamWorks’ products for a while. So, yeah. It will not surprise anyone to know that the production was a nightmare and the film was dramatically redone after a disastrous test screening. In Theaters September 17. Quite frankly not putting this on the list would have been weird. The secret life of bees, as told by Seinfeld, is a bore with a capital B.Read original story All 36 DreamWorks Animation Movies Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos) At TheWrap. At the time of its release, Antz was the second ever 3D animated film (Toy Story was the first) and the first of Dreamwork's animated movies. The sequel to the similarly un-lauded Trolls released in March 2020, just as COVID-19 began complicating operations for movie theatres. Characters Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit had first appeared in a series of animated shorts in 1989. About this list: I've purposely left out the 2D animated DreamWorks movies because they seem so different. For instance, a sequel to the middling Boss Baby is underway in 2021. And that film will be getting a theatrical follow-up in 2021. All that work didn’t add much to the film, which still very much sucks. Ferrell plays the titular extraterrestrial supervillain, who routinely faces off against an unrelentingly perfect superhero named Metro Man (Pitt). The Croods: A New Age. It also introduces Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas), a for-hire cutthroat who ultimately becomes a Shrek ally, probably the greatest character in the entire franchise. Plus, as an animated superhero romp, it pales in comparison next to things likeThe Incredibles and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. DreamWorks Animation’s first project was Antz in 1998, the tale of fun-loving colony-members voiced by notable names like Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, and Gene Hackman.From there, the animation studio went on to make 38 movies in the span of a little over two decades. The studio seems to have such a constant audience that they “can do what they want” with pictures of lesser quality, yet, at the same time, they produce incredible pictures that don’t get a second shot, as some may argue was the case for Flushed Away. Brandon is a film buff who recently graduated from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied English and Business Management. (In a 2004 interview, Katzenberg claimed to have directed Road to El Dorado himself.) The movie also bears a resemblance to two other racing ... direct-to-DVD animated movies that closely resemble Pixar and DreamWorks family films. The core concept of Madagascar is so undeniably catchy that you can almost forgive its general lousiness: a group of animals at the Central Park Zoo, including a self-centered lion (Ben Stiller), a lazy hippo (Jada Pinkett-Smith), a hypochondriac giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a restless zebra (Chris Rock), make a failed escape attempt and are shipped off to Africa (through a series of comic mishaps, they wind up on Madagascar but think it’s San Diego). Crafted as a loving homage to sci-fi and horror films of the 1950’s and ‘60s, everything from Godzilla to The Blob to a host of anonymous alien invasion movies that would play at drive-ins everywhere. Thankfully, that seemed to be idle chatter and we were spared the indignity of Bee Movie Too. Without a doubt, Bee Movie is the most bizarre movie DreamWorks Animation has ever produced. 5 Best & 5 Worst Dreamworks Animated Movies (According To Metacritic). The gritty approach to an aquatic animated flick was certainly not what critics had in mind. It’s all pretty much what you’d expect by this point, with many of the gags and side characters wearing thin (if we never again see that gingerbread man, who now is saddled with a tragic backstory, it’ll be too soon) and a subplot about Fiona’s pregnancy giving way to some truly nightmarish imagery. 19 Seven Years in Tibet (1997) The only thing worse than the attraction itself is how endlessly repurposed it has become. You have to wonder, if they could go back in time, would they have made the movie at all? DreamWorks Animation’s first project was Antz in 1998, the tale of fun-loving colony-members voiced by notable names like Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, and Gene Hackman. (Interestingly, Disney’s own animated South American epic Kingdom of the Sun, went through similar hardships and eventually made it to the screen as the overtly comic The Emperor’s New Groove.) Covers it for Irish Cartoons (April 26, 2017). The Wallace and Gromit short films always hopped between genres, from a Jules Verne … The uptick in approval may result from the sequel’s thrilling adventure and exciting pace, along with not having to character/world-build, which seems to be a majorly untapped general advantage for sequels. In this new alternate reality, Rumpelstiltskin has taken over Far, Far Away and led it into post-apocalyptic disrepair, overrun with witches and, for some reason, techno music. It is notable, however, for pre-dating the subsequent Shrek sequels and Katzenberg’s overzealous embrace of 3D theatrical exhibitions that would ultimately make both theme park attractions like this one and 3D movies in the theater obsolete and unappealing. 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The scale of Shrek is massive, reaching a size only a few franchises in the history of cinema has reached. It was released straight-to-video in Europe after a terrible US showing, and Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg publicly apologized for the film during a press conference at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The ending is pretty cute though. Ultimately, the movie lost its edge (at one point Rosie Perez’s character was even more scantily clad) wound up being a broad comedy about a pair of Spanish conmen (played by noted Spanish actors Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline) who find themselves in the legendary City of Gold, mistaken for Gods and marked for human sacrifice. Chicken Run was so highly praised it was nominated for Best Picture, but it lost to Gladiator. Of course, a good number of those are sequels, with the Madagascar, Shrek, and How To Train Your Dragon franchises, among many others, spawning plenty of subsequent films. Great to look at. This time around, the animation looks slightly better (but it’s worth noting that this came out the same year as Pixar’s ravishing WALL•E) but everything else is much, much worse: there’s a bunch of unnecessarily backstory for Ben Stiller’s Alex the lion (although Alec Baldwin does show up as the used car salesman version of Scar fromThe Lion King), a subplot featuring the old woman from the first movie, and some very questionable, racially tinged moments, including a sequence where the giraffe (David Schwimmer) is dressed like a traditional shaman, complete with a bone through his nose, and another sequence where Chris Rock’s zebra yells at Stiller for being unable to tell him apart from other zebras.
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