Dreamworks Animation

[Lauren]

I'm really looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2. The first movie is one of my favorite DW movies and I loved it so much. For any fans of the movie, you have to watch Dragons: Riders of Berk in order to follow the continuation from where the end of HTTYD1 left off, but before HTTYD2. I read that the movies are going to be a trilogy.

[MooLion]

Not a big DreamWorks fan. What I've seen has mainly been nothing special and mostly 'quantity over quality' as Sadiki said.

Shrek 2 and Spirit... are my preferred. Kung Fu Panda was okay, actually. Only seen it once but remember it seeming more like the kind of moral-y story-based vibe of animated films I grew up with. 'Shrek 2' was the right type of amusing; helped, in my eyes, by the British cast. 'Spirit' isn't amazing, yet it is the best of the 2D lot and marginally better than most of the 3D stuff.

What's particularly bad and what annoys me about DW can await another day when I'm not soon to go to bed!

[Regulus]

I find it odd that I've read so many complaints about movies with predictable plots on a Lion King forum. TLK's story of growing up and taking your place in life is easily the most predictable and most overdone of them all.

I mean, doesn't anyone realize that there's basically no more than 20 or so different plotlines that actually work, which have been recycled throughout human history?

What makes a movie unique is the way the story is portrayed, not the core of the story itself. That being said, my opinion of most Dreamworks movies is 'meh.' All of them (from what I've seen) have been rather amusing, but not necessarily spectacular. Only HTTYD goes beyond that, in my opinion. And, again, that's not because of the story, but because of the way the story was told.

I want a freaking dragon, dammit!

[Sigurd]

^I have to disagree with you, there's many other movies than HTTYD that are spectular. For example Prince of Egypt, The road to El Dorado, Megamind and Antz, who all have great animation, great songs and interesting plots that is told in a spectacular way. But I agree with you about the importance about how the story is being told. That's definitely true with Disney, where almost every movie is an adaption of some sort but they are still great anyway. Dreamworks movies are in an lesser extent movie adaptions of famous stories, which is why I like them.

[mamaprince]

From DreamWorks I liked
Spirit
Puss and boots
Madagascar
Kung Fu Panda

Turbo looks like it's going to be horrible...