I enjoyed Madagascar a lot. (I even bought the DVD) Others like Shark Tale just made want to throw popcorn at the screen and leave the theater. What I dislike the most about Dreamworks is when they finally make a good movie they have to make 4 sequels. They should maybe make one sequel and move on.
I also liked Antz. I love Woody Allen, I had to see it. About ABL, I’m a massive Kurosawa fan so I really HAD to see it. I like them both.
The only other Dreamworks films I like are Shrek 1 and Ice Age 1 (I’m a prehistoric geek xD). Someone tell Dreamworks sequels don’t work and aren’t good and aren’t original please 
, it looks like they don’t know it.
Luke- Yeah, Woody Allen’s great!
Actually, Ice Age (and its sequels) was made by Blue Sky Studios I think. Still a very good film, though. And yup, the original Shrek was good too, but now there are so many sequels of it, it’s almost tainted the first one.
Was Ice Age by Blue Sky Studios? I’ve got such a bad memory
Antz, I really don’t know what to think of it. Yes, it was more adult, that’s fine. But it was really marketed towards the same age group as Pixar films, as all Dreamworks pictures are, and then add all the adult stuff. Many of their jokes are quite rather tasteless (for example, the part in Shrek 3 where Puss starts talking about "when a man loves a woman…etc.).
FigmentJedi, that’s the funniest thing ever!! I’m still laughing at it!! Or, with it, I mean… whatever. It was FUNNY!! 
Please tell me where you found it!
Yes, Ice Age was made by Blue Sky Studios. As for Shrek sequels… there is a 4th and a 5th one. 
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FigmentJedi - Puh-ha!! That’s great…
– Mitch
FigmentJedi: Dude, that is funny to the extreme there my friend.
Lol. It’s so true. But Dreamworks didn’t start it. The ‘edgey’ look with variations as far as the ‘smart-alecky’ look even to an outright jackass -it’s not new. I got sick of it in the 90’s with several Disney movies, such as Aladdin in 1992 and Dreamwork’s Prince of Egypt(first wrote this as a Disney film, but it’s DW). It’s an attempt to appeal to adults who don’t buy in to the fairy tale nature of many of these stories and kids who didn’t respect their teachers. Another way to describe it is: “hey I’m a sharp cat, and cast a skeptical eye at what’s going on here. I’m so cool…”
After so many movies with this look, you can get worn down.
Dude, that’s so funny, FigmentJedi! I never noticed that smirk/smart alek smile before!
Where did you find it?
FigmentJedi: I found that image today too and almost posted it! I found it highly amusing!
That’s silly. I can easily assemble a bunch of pictures of Pixar characters that present a similar smart-alack pose too.
Don’t get me wrong, I prefer Pixar over Dreamworks any day, but I have better reasons for not liking most of what Dreamworks makes than just picking out things that shouldn’t matter in the first place.
If you’re not gonna like Dreamworks films, you should at least have some good reasons for not liking them, than just picking the most random hairs of the bunch.
ROFL!
THAT MADE MY DAY!
Yes, in my opinion Pixar is much more creative than Dreamworks…
I don’t know if anyone has metioned this but… Reese Witherspoon is in Monsters vs. Aliens, and The Bear and the Bow. Maybe Pixar is ripping off?
NOO!!! When Pixar announced that Reese Witherspoon would be in The Bear and the bow Dreamworks tried to beat Pixar into using Witherspoon first. Muh ha ha ha ha!!!
I don’t find that random at all, actually. The smug faces, I believe, reflect towards the movies - the characters, mainly the protagonists, (IMHO) act as “smug twerps”, something akin to someone “up oneself”, and that quite distracts me from the film. Not more of Shrek, but more Sharks Tale (greatest example) and Kung Fu Panda.
DW actually created this “smug”-esque look on purpose - it’s deliberate so they can pull out the adults who are hesitant to watch because it’s a kids’ movie into watching, because when adults look at those faces, they don’t see a kids film, they see slapstick comedy, which pulls in families. And Pixar doesn’t do that because they do that already without the smugness - it’s called a good storyline & dialouge!
And, yes, Disney_Guy, you could say you can make the same thing with Pixar. I’m not denying that. But the DW one has Promotional Material with the smug faces (which grinds my gears, because that backs up the fact that they’ve made the smugness deliberate, and this smugness just wrecks the whole film!). If you would want to create the same thing with Pixar characters, you’d need to use screencaps, because you’d find the smug faces only relate to the storyline, not the character.
And you’ve completely ignored the cartoon, the smug faces is only to emphasize that DW has no creativity, not so much the smug faces.
Awesome point Phileas!
Edited. There’s no need to quote the entire post. – Mitch
For some weird reason, I thought Madagascar 2 ripped off Lion King. [spoil]In both movies, Mufasa and Zuba are pride leaders, Simba and Alex are separated from their homelands, Simba and Alex end up back in their homelands, and Simba and Alex must do something courageous in order to become leaders. [/spoil]
That Makunga guy and Scar looked alike in a way.
Altho this is a DW ‘ripoff’ thread, it’s interesting that you should mention Lion King, which itself admittedly (watch the film-making part of the dvd) heavily borrows from Joseph in the Bible and Hamlet. That was the admitted part, the real firestorm back then was over the shocking, and heavily news media covered, similarities to the great Japanese cartoon ‘Kimba, the White Lion’ with its wise simian and messenger avian (bird), Simba vs Kimba, dead parents, etc…
I was so pissed I refused to put down $7 for the movie, and only recently finally saw the entire 2-dvd set for a lousy 80 cent 5-day rental.
Actually, a reversed version already exists. Just don’t have it on me.
After all, not all MS Paint comics from /co/ manage to find their way onto the rest of the internets.