Dreamworks Animation and Blue Sky Studios

[D'oh Nuts]

This is a thread to discuss their films. I might re-watch them to do proper reviews.

[comeau]

The marketing for that new crappy Madagascar film is killing me. I used to think Chris Rock was funny, but those ads tell me otherwise.

[Mr. Krikt]

You mean this doesn't make you want to watch it?

[Tiny Sandford II]

Same here. I liked the first Madagascar, which was okay, the second one was really boring, and the third one really looks lame. I like very few of Dreamworks' films, such as the first Shrek film, and I thought Shark Tale was decent.

[D'oh Nuts]

I haven't watched these films in a long time, but once I re-watch them I'll change my scores.

Dreamworks Animation
Shrek- 4 or 4.5/5
Shrek 2- 3.5 or 4/5
Shark Tale- 2/5
Madagascar- 3/5
Over The Hedge- 3.5 or 4/5
Shrek 3- 2/5
Bee Movie- 2.5/5
Kung Fu Panda- 4.5 or 5/5
Madagascar 2- 3.5/5
Monsters Vs. Aliens- 2.5/5
Shrek 4- 3/5
How To Train Your Dragon- 4.5 or 5/5
Kung Fu Panda 2- 4.5 or 5/5

Blue Sky Studios
Ice Age- 3/5
Ice Age 2- 2 or 2.5/5
Robots- 2/5
Horton Hears A Who- 2.5/5
Rio- 2.5/5

[Jesse Pinkman]

i thought the third madagascar would be the last but now i hear they're planning a 4th? damn it.

anyway:

Ice Age- 3/5
Ice Age 2- 1/5

Shrek- 5/5
Shrek 2- 3/5
Shrek 4- 4/5
Over The Hedge- 4/5

[The Governor]

Shrek 1 & 4: 4/5
Shrek 2: 5/5
Shrek 3: 1/5

How to Train you Dragon: 4/5
Kung Fu Panda: 4/5
KFP2: 5/5 (favorite animated movie)

[TriforceBun]

I quite liked Dragon and both Kung Fu Panda movies. Shrek 1 was decent but is kinda charmless in retrospect, Shrek 2 moreso. Haven't bothered with most others, although I thought Madagascar was mediocre and Shark Tale was awful.

[zach]

i used to like Ice Age and Shrek way back when......but they don't hold up for me now. Bee Movie is probably the only one i like to re-watch (and it's mostly because of jerry's voice).

[leprechaun_dan]

Dreamworks:

Shrek - 5/5
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron - 4/5
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - 2.5/5
Shrek 2 - 4.5/5
Shark Tale - 4/5
Madagascar - 3.5/5
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit - 4.5/5
Over the Hedge - 4/5
Flushed Away - 4.5/5
Shrek the Third - 3/5
Bee Movie - 4/5
Kung Fu Panda - 3.5/5
Madagascar 2 - 2/5
Monsters vs Aliens - 3.5/5
How To Train Your Dragon - 5/5
Shrek 4 - 3.5/5
Megamind - 3.5/5
Kung Fu Panda 2 - 3.5/5
Puss in Boots - 3/5

Best: How to Train Your Dragon & Shrek
Worst: Madagascar 2

Blue Sky Studios:

Ice Age - 4.5/5
Robots - 3.5/5
Ice Age: The Meltdown - 4/5
Horton Hears a Who! - 4/5
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - 4/5
Rio - 3/5

Best: Ice Age
Worst: Rio

[D'oh Nuts]

I have a sudden urge to also review films from other animation studios. Should I change the name of the thread to "The Non-Pixar Animation General Disscussion"?

Sony Pictures Animation

Open Season- 1.5/5
Surf's Up- 3/5
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs- 4/5

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I like Dreamworks Live Action a little better.

[CMYK]

I don't really want to rate them, because I'm not really into Dreamworks.

I guess Antz, Shrek and Kung fu Panda have my attention as classics.

[leprechaun_dan]

Sony Pictures Animation:

Monster House - 4.5/5
Open Season - 2.5/5
Surf's Up - 3/5
The Smurfs - 1.5/5
Arthur Christmas - 4/5
The Pirates! - 4/5

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

What the hell is Antz.

[leprechaun_dan]

One of the best animated films of all time

Google it

[CMYK]

Antz was Dreamworks first CGI animation. Pretty much why Pixar and Dreamworks got off on a
bad foot. The whole who copied who scenario.








I guess if I had to pick I prefer Blue Skies Studios over DreamWorks.
Even though probably favour Shrek.




Wiki fun facts:

- (Antz) It features the voices of well-known actors such as Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez,
Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, and Danny Glover.

( I think thats a good cast! )


- The movie was released a little more than a month before Pixar's A Bug's Life.


- As of today DreamWorks have released up to 23 feature length films, Pixar with only 12
films and little Blue Sky studios with just 6 feature length films.

[zach]

huh...i always thought Antz just ripped off A Bug's Life. either way A Bug's Life is a million times better then Antz.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

I actually saw Antz in the movies when I would have been 9 or 10 I guess...didn't care for it. To be fair though I haven't watched it since so who knows, maybe I'd enjoy it more...though I doubt it.

[D'oh Nuts]

I've read that there was apparently an Ice Age CHRISTMAS SPECIAL with SANTA CLAUS.

[Homer Defined]

huh...i always thought Antz just ripped off A Bug's Life. either way A Bug's Life is a million times better then Antz.

I disagree. For me Antz was better, but I did like A Bug's Life also.

[D'oh Nuts]

After re-watching the first Madagascar and Ice Age 2 I would have to say that they are slightly worse than I remember. Both get a 2/5.

[lovebug]

You mean this doesn't make you want to watch it?

It makes me want to watch it nine times in a row.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I sincerely hope the people involved over at Dreamworks know the internet buzz over this "song" is ironic.

[Dark Homer]

huh...i always thought Antz just ripped off A Bug's Life.

it did, in a way

the head of dreamworks literally hears what pixar is working on, quickly produces a movie on the same topic, and gets it out before pixar's movie, just to be a jerk

[D'oh Nuts]

To anyone who went to see Ice Age 4 for the Maggie short or the film, did Ice Age 4 suck?