Remember when we all thought Puss In Boots 2 was going to be the start of a new golden age for DreamWorks? Now it feels like we're getting a Universal version of the dark timeline where Circle 7 took over for Pixar. Shrek 5 being crapped out by Illumination now feels like a very real possibility.
???? dreamworks hasnt done anything bad why tf is everyone all of a sudden saying they've fallen off when they just released one movie that people dont find amazing or isnt that good
apparently Stephanie Ma Stine (the co director for kung fu panda 4) said that there were supposed more story elements than what we were shown in the movie. she said that if they were to bring back tai lung there would have to be a reason for it. the reason is shifu he was supposed to have an arc in this movie regarding tai lung but the dreamworks executives kept trying to cut costs, this also explains why the furious five did not show up in the movie
The director also felt that a comedic movie was more impt and had control of all creative decisions. Whenever she suggested something, to him or the writers, it was thrown out. Apparently the writers also refused any constructive criticism from anyone, and the original character designer left DW a week into working on the movie. I feel bad for them. DreamWorks had a recipe for success and squandered it.
They weren't back. Puss in Boots was a reshuffle of existing media and The Bad Guys had every predictable trope. Those movies were overhyped. Dreamworks Animation died when Illumination bought it. It fell with Voltron.
@@cupcakKe_expresskung fu panda was just fun I think the over expectation of the last movies made people think it was bad when in reality it was just good/ok
Every Dreamworks movie and what I personally say Antz: Ok The Prince of Egypt: a Masterpiece The Road to El Dorado: Pretty Good Chicken Run: Good Shrek: Really Good Spirit: Really Good Sinbad: Ok Shrek 2: a Masterpiece Shark Tale: So Bad it’s Bad Madagascar: Fun Were Rabbit: Pretty Good Over the Hedge: Good Flushed Away: Good Shrek the 3rd: The Bee Movie: Fun Kung Fu Panda: Really Good Madagascar 2: Fun Monsters Vs Aliens: Ok How to Train your Dragon: a Masterpiece Shrek Forever After: Really Good Megamind: Really Good Kung Fu Panda 2: a Masterpiece Puss in Boots: Fun Madagascar 3: Fun Rise of the Guardians: Really Good The Croods: Fun Turbo: Mr Peabody & Sherman: Pretty Good How to Train your Dragon 2: Really Good Penguins of Madagascar: Good Home: Fun Kung Fu Panda 3: Pretty Good Trolls: ok Boss baby: ok Captain Underpants: Pretty Good How to Train your Dragon 3: a Masterpiece Trolls World Tour: Not Good Croods 2: Not Good The Bad Guys: Pretty Good Puss in Boots the Last Wish: a Masterpiece Ruby Gillman: Nice Trolls 3: Good Just realizing Dreamworks has never had a Renaissance yet
I don’t remember the last time an animation studio Kneecaped two of its most revered IPs in such a short timespan. The true Megamind and Po will not be forgotten.
Megamind 2 wasn’t made by DreamWorks… kind of. It was a tv movie that acts as a pilot to the Megamind tv series. It’s not made by DreamWorks’ animation studio but rather the tv animation studio. DREAMWORKS HAS A STUDIO THAT MAKES SHOWS!
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios But Dreamworks Animation Television isn’t a studio of their own. They’re a production company that contracts out to countless animation studios. That’s why Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness was pretty good, why Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts was great, and why Megamind Rules is garbage. Kung Fu Panda LoA was animated by Paprikaas and Oktobor, Kipo was animated by Studio Mir, and Megamind Rules is animated by 88 pictures. This is the inconsistency that outsourcing brings. There’ll be some high highs, but the lows are infuriatingly low…
according to a leak Kung Fu Panda 5 and a Furious 5 movie are in production - According to many sources the next installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise is currently in development slated for a 2028 release. Dreamworks has fully acknowledged the disappointment from fans when it came to Kung Fu Panda 4 and is attempting to fix their mistakes with this film. The current suspected director for this is Jenifer Yuh Nelson who also directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3. Mike Mitchell who directed Kung Fu Panda 4 is suspected to not return to this franchise any time soon. The film is currently in it's early planning stages, and animation is slated to begin sometime in mid to late 2025. That is not all the news for the Kung Fu Panda franchise however, as a Furious Five stand alone film is planned for release in 2027. This movie takes place during the events of Kung Fu Panda Four, and viewers will get insight as to what ''mission" the Five were on during the events of the film. It is expected for there to be massive recasts for all of the Furious Five, however the only VA who is currently confirmed not to return is Jackie Chan for ''Master Monkey'' This film will be much more serious in nature when compared to the previous four Kung Fu Panda films. Dreamworks is aiming at a tone that is slightly darker than Kung Fu Panda 2. This film is being directed by Joel Crawford, who also directed Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Croods 2.
I think it might have started earlier, with the Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans movie. They replaced the original team of writers and outsourced the animation to at least three different studios. And all of that showed, that movie was a disaster in every way. DreamWorks has shown they're still capable of doing great movies, it's a shame Universal doesn't care about them anymore.
Makes me wonder why Guillermo Del toro was credited as one of the writers of that disaster piece of a film/ train wreck of a finale. Like seriously if Star vs finale wasn’t worse I would have considered rise of the titans to be the worst finale to an animated series I have ever seen. Instead it’s a runner up.
I don’t have a problem with the movies being outsourced. Quality animation can be seen in all types of artworks, from “Lackadaisy” to “Digital Circus” to “Autodale”. It’s not what we see that draws people to movies, but the story and plot. I feel like THAT is the problem.
You ain't wrong. But the issue with movies being outsourced is that these smaller animation Studios are non-unionized, which is a massive issue because that means more American animators would probably be left job-less. Not to mention the fact that American studios and animation Studios in other countries don't really have the best solutions when it comes to communication.
that’s not really comparable at all - dreamworks is not a Lackadaisy-size company. they have a huge amount of money and influence. outsourcing doesn’t just mean that someone else is making the animation, it means that someone else with less bargaining power & less creative investments in the project are making it. Dreamworks isn’t an animation studio after this, they’re just a wrapping paper around a rube goldberg money-making scheme.
I do. Problem is that the intent for outsourcing isn't to expand and reach out to talent in other countries and gain other perspectives. It's the benefit from the american company and abuse already lower cost of living countries even worse with sweatshop salaries for skilled labor. They want to have their American audience cake and eat it without paying the already abysmal american wages. Something needs to come down.
once again, as I repeat to many other people, Dreamwork's brand is literally making a great movie then make a bad movie for the next few years until a good movie arives
Usually. But tthis time it sounds lile the animation studio disolving into micro attempts avroad, nothing big and focused anymore. Sounds like they are giving up on bigger or better movies for good.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin. One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on. And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2. What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate. Also last note. I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss. That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
Remember when everyone thought Last Wish would usher in a new golden age for DreamWorks? Hoo boy did it, an age of golden nuggets if you know what I'm saying. Maybe it was less of a sign of a new beginning and more like a last hurrah...
Nah, Dreamworks was never entering a golden age, but they aren’t falling apart or going downhill either. They’ve always been a hit or miss studio and experiment with all kinds of things to see what works.
@@SuperAbdul19 After Last Wish maybe all of these latest and greatest flops are just what we needed to remind us of how DreamWorks, well, works. Definitely a crapshoot but one worth taking on occasions.
I'd say people got caught into the hype train pretty badly. I mean, Last Wish was an excellent movie and was much better received than Disney's recent animation films, and since people were getting angry at Disney and at the same time mocking them for some of their recent failures, people thought that DW would have taken the chance and surpass them
@@pablocasas5906 Considering that all of these movies, Last Wish and all the flops, were obviously being made at the same time I doubt they were ever intending on "surpassing" Disney. It was all just people making up shit in their heads.
Historically DW has been inconsistent. They’ve produced amazing movies and then duds. The only reason to think it would be a last hurray is due to the fact they’ve 1) learned all the wrong lessons from the success of those movies. And 2) cuz they’ve laid off 50% off their staff after their string of failures after they stopped giving a shit.
I have a feeling there are a lot of teams working on a lot of projects- it's just that only team "A" so to speak, is producing anything that works. The puss in boots team
According to many sources the next installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise is currently in development slated for a 2028 release. Dreamworks has fully acknowledged the disappointment from fans when it came to Kung Fu Panda 4 and is attempting to fix their mistakes with this film. The current suspected director for this is Jenifer Yuh Nelson who also directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3. Mike Mitchell who directed Kung Fu Panda 4 is suspected to not return to this franchise any time soon. The film is currently in it's early planning stages, and animation is slated to begin sometime in mid to late 2025. That is not all the news for the Kung Fu Panda franchise however, as a Furious Five stand alone film is planned for release in 2027. This movie takes place during the events of Kung Fu Panda Four, and viewers will get insight as to what ''mission" the Five were on during the events of the film. It is expected for there to be massive recasts for all of the Furious Five, however the only VA who is currently confirmed not to return is Jackie Chan for ''Master Monkey'' This film will be much more serious in nature when compared to the previous four Kung Fu Panda films. Dreamworks is aiming at a tone that is slightly darker than Kung Fu Panda 2. This film is being directed by Joel Crawford, who also directed Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Croods 2.
I read that Mike Mitchell wants Kung Fu Panda 5 to have the Furious 5 "front and centre" for the next instalment. He also said that he wants to explore the oceanic animals for this movie because the armour of Master Dolphin exists. We haven't seen aquatic animals, really. Finally, he mentioned that he'd also like to see insect characters like Mantis appear. He isn't sure what kind of direction the movie will take, but if he ends up being a major part of it, this is possibly how the 5th film may happen.
I am BEGGING that the wild robot one is good, because it looks so beautiful and I'd genuinely love to see it. The design looks simple, but still mildly ominous. The forest and lighting looks great, not to mention the reflection in the robot's "eyes" looking STUNNING, I have high hopes for it.
Darn Im also disappointed Captain Underpants was not actually made by Dreamworks animators, it was such a fun movie that it reminded me as a kid watching Emperor New Groove and reading the og books
Yeah. You thought some innovation was happening and that the people there did something great, only to learn youve been praising the wrong guys the whole time for something they didnt do.
DreamWorks Animation and Illumination the sister animation studios to Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar both owned by Universal Pictures while Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios are owned by the Walt Disney Company, actually unlike Disney Animation and Pixar collaborated with other movie companies to make feature films, from 2012 to 2018 Illumination (After Dr. Seuss Enterprises collaborated with Blue Sky Studios to produce Horton Hears a Who! In 2008) collaborated with Dr. Seuss enterprises to co produce and distribute four adaptations of Dr. Seuss books, and their animated television special adaptations, The Lorax in 2012, How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 2018, The Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You’ll Go!, however creative differences lead to Illumination producing the adaptations of The Lorax, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Or The Grinch their own ways, sorta making them drift away from the source material from the books and specials making them lighter and softer removing all the dark material the original books had and flanderizing some of the characters beyond belief and the mixed to negative reviews of The Grinch and The Lorax lead to Dr. Seuss Enterprises realizing that Illumination was bad at adapting Dr. Seuss books due to the aforementioned creative differences and terminated their collaboration with Illumination cancelling their adaptations of The Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You’ll Go! Were cancelled and Dr. Seuss Enterprises would form a new collaboration and contract with the Warner Animation Group to produce The Cat in the Hat, its spin-off focusing on Thing 1 and Thing 2, The Sneetches, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh the Places You’ll Go that were more positively reviewed than The Grinch and The Lorax, and deemed huge improvements over those films, Illumination would later collaborate with the video game company Nintendo in 2019 and 2020 to distribute and co-produce The Super Mario Bros. Movie a computer-animated feature film based on the Super Mario Bros. video games from Nintendo already in pre production, and the movie was released in April 2023 to critical and commercial success leading to Nintendo and Illumination extending their collaboration and contract with no creative differences this time around (And since Illumination is much better at adapting Nintendo video games than they are at Dr. Seuss book.) to produce more computer animated movies based on Nintendo video games including Kirby, Nintendo Land, Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser’s Fury, Super Mario 3D World, Yoshi, Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, The Legend of Zelda, Galaga, Pac-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog and sequels to The Super Mario Bros. Movie and films starring Wario and Waluigi make a Nintendo Cinematic Universe. As for DreamWorks Animation, the other animation studio initially in 1997 collaborated with Aardman, the british stop-motion animation studio to distribute and co-produce Chicken Run, a stop-motion animated feature film already in pre production which was released in 2000 to critical and commercial success, leading to DWA and Aardman extending their collaboration for five more movies produced in the next twelve years even after DWA retired producing traditionally animated feature films in favor of producing computer-animated ones after the release of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in 2003, with DWA and Aardman producing and releasing the stop-motion animated feature film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005 and Flushed Away in 2006, the latter being Aardman’s first fully computer-animated feature film, but after the release of Flushed Away, Aardman and DWA would end their collaboration short due to creative differences, with Aardman collaborating with Sony Pictures Animation next and Aardman and DWA producing one of the films in their collaboration, a movie about paleolithic humans separately after the termination, Aardman produced Early Man in 2018, plus a sequel to Chicken Run, Dawn of the Nugget in 2023, and DWA produced The Croods in 2013 and a sequel, The Croods: A New Age in 2020. DWA would later collaborate with Scholastic to coproduce and distribute Captain UnderPants: The First Epic Movie in 2017 based on the Captain UnderPants books by Dav Pilkey and The Bad Guys in 2022, based on The Bad Guys books by Aaron Bladley and they would both be followed by a sequel to The Bad Guys, The Bad Guys 2 on 2025 and a sequel Captain UnderPants television series, the Epic Tales of Captain UnderPants plus a spin-off based on the Dog Man graphic novels also by Dav Pilkey in 2025.
While Pixar has never produced any movies based on books, literature or any video games before aside from A Bug’s Life being loosely based on the Ant and the Grasshopper and Brave being in a fairy tale genre, and its ambiguous if it will ever do so in the future due to their obsession with producing all original stories, and extreme creative differences, Walt Disney Animation Studios has done so multiple times in the past as part of its history, golden ages and legacy, but never collaborated with any other animation studios to produce movies before just like Pixar except indirectly with Marvel for Big Hero 6 and its also unknown if Disney Animation will being doing so anytime in the near future.
Indeed. It may be the one exception they go all hands on since it's the golden goose, but I can just as easily see it being the Minions of the franchise. Super successful but it completely removes the soul of what made Shrek Shrek. Now he just funny AI orgre making fart jokes.
@@SammEater Yes even though the 4th one was supposed to be the final one. They even said so themselves. Shrek 5 is the most unnecessary, useless, lazy, disgusting, greedy, idiotic, stupid ass, shitty, soulless cash grabs ever made right now.
Maybe this'll teach "animation fans" a lesson about using an animation studio to bash another. DreamWorks has always gone through this cycle yet everyone went mob mentality on another studio after The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots 2 came out. Well the shoe is now on the other foot.
It was deeper than that. They used DreamWorks to bash Halle Bailey as Ariel specifically. Hiding their bigotry behind their hate for a company. Disney is trying to change, it's going through a hiccup like it did in the 50s.
Yeah, I'd say that most animation fans don't know exactly how companies work, whether we like it or not making movies is still a business and the quality of the creative are in studios can vary a lot depending on the project. Just because a studio manage to made a hit it doesn't mean all of their movies will be successes.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin. One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on. And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2. What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate. Also last note. I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss. That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
Puss in Boots 2 really was just a one and done goldmine for Dreamworks. Also hey I see you with the Danganronpa music in the beginning there that game has an amazing soundtrack!
It took one good movie for people to think Dreamworks was going to oust Pixar and Disney as the new best animation studio. Those people forgot the number 1 thing about dreamworks, inconsistency.
@@kerryli9830 we can say that but their movies are rated higher than stuff like home. Also people do watch their movies. Plus I heard the bird movie was actually not bad
hay Dazz, a lot of other background things may be going on. As in DreamWorks is just unable to produce mega hits like they used too. Thus, they are unable to compete with other companies production. A lot of these is just the cost of production (and somewhat marketing) going way up and the returns just are not there anymore. Remember, they may report how much it cost to actually make a animated movie, but they DO NOT repost how much the movie theaters take and usually dose the total spent on marketing.
DreamWorks building up all that goodwill they had after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, only to flush it all down the toilet in the past month feels like the most DreamWorks thing ever
Kung Fu Panda 4 was not something I needed, but a welcome addition with funny quips I was very satisfied with. Megamind 2 + The show on the other hand...
Exactly!! Honestly KFP4 is not a bad film. It's a good movie, that falls on the weaker side of the franchise (just like KFP3). But to say it's as bad as something like Shrek the Third is outright wrong.
"Kfp4 is not a bad film" you can keep lying to yourself all u want, but that wont change the movie is terrible, if u aint a movie reviewer dont talk@@martinaguiluz4063
@@martinaguiluz4063 I actually took my cousins(Both over 10) to see it and we had a blast. Sure, it wasn't as good as the original, but it was still a good movie. I do hope that there isn't a Kung Fu Panda 5 because Po passing on the title of Dragon Warrior should be treated as the ending it should be. It's not the very best of Kung Fu Panda, but none of the Kung Fu Panda movies have actually been bad.
As much as these greedy sob execs in suits try to corporately meddle with things, it was Dreamworks' HUGE hits that filled their pockets. This move doesn't seem so bad tbh. Sony and Columbia did make "Mitchells vs The Machines" after all, and that looked and felt really good to watch!
Watch people acknowledge the biggest trait about DreamWorks with consistency of Ws and Ls and then forget about it again if The Wild Robot turns out amazing.
I still remember seeing spirit in theatres with my mom. It’s one of the last memories I have with her before she pulled away and stopped spending time with me when I was young. She let me have whatever I wanted from concession and I had a big bag of cotton candy. It’s one of my favourite memories. The movie was incredible and being with my mom was awesome.
Remember when DreamWorks first came out with the Prince of Egypt even people who didn’t believe in Christianity love this movie. The soundtrack, the imagery, the VOICE ACTING. Everything about that story just felt like it moved you. But Lord knows what is really in peoples hearts. These corporations don’t care about their staff nor what comes out as a result, all they care for is money which will get them nothing in the long run.
Yeah, what a masterpiece that movie was. Even with it being a fairly basic retelling you could still see back then that the creators and artists were allowed time to hone their inspiration to make it properly enjoyable. Now just like their easiest demographic, the current youth; the animation companies have no patience and attention span. The only results being the half-baked and forgettable.
Me at Dreamworks when they made The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: ''Wow! Great job, guys! Looks like we're getting a Golden Age of Dreamworks after all.'' Me at Dreamworks when they made Kung Fu Panda 4, Megamind 2, and Trolls 3: ''... WHAT HAPPENED!?'' Dreamworks: ''... Weeell, at least The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots The Last Wish were great first attempts, right?''
Don't forget their other flops like Teenage Kraken, Orion, Megamind Rules, The Bad Guys Christmas Special, the rest of their awful shows, the rest of their awful shorts, the rest of their awful specials, and etc. And before that, in the past few years, there's their garbage like Abominable, the shitty Spirit remake in 2021, and etc.
5:40 It wasn't a DreamWorks movie, but I remember going to see Harry Potter 3: The Prisoner of Askiban, and the theater gave out little legos that you could build the bus from that same movie. Me and my family spent some time before the movie building the bus before we went to watch the movie. It was nice
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin. One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on. And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2. What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate. Also last note. I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss. That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
More journalistic updates on the animation industry including interviews with people working on the projects would be fascinating, at the very least keeping everyone abreast of developments like this is important!
People should Stop Seeing a Few Good movies as a Golden age or some bad ones as a downfall at this point it seems random Who knows maybe Disney releases a really good movie soon
Yeah. And you don’t see the Disney fans using clips from Encanto to mock the DreamWorks fans with their two films that came out that same year which by the way were TERRIBLE.
For every dreamworks masterpiece you get 2 maybe 3 medicore or bad movies. It was always like that with them and even considering their big titles (cough shrek 3). Sure its sad they decided to just milk Kung fu Panda with a movie thst feels like a longer episode of a spinoff cartoon but this isnt anything out of normal for them
If any company would have the ability to pony up the cash to buy DreamWorks, it would be their sister studio Illumination. Which is already under the same Universal Studios/Comcast corporate umbrella, making the point kinda moot. No in the future it'll be more likely that Illumination and all the money it keeps bringing in, will allow Universal to buy out Disney like they wanted to in 2006.
dreamworks is going to outsource animation to animation companies outside of the country for 2 reasons, to save money and just in case another strike happens because people believe another strike will happen this year
Honestly, in my personal opinion ever since Dreamworks was brought by Universal Pictures in 2016, they been making more mediocre products than good nowadays. Back in their early years despite being a mixed bag they were a lot more risk taking, unlike now while they still do pull out occasional bangers, they feel a lot more safe, and stale ever since they were brought by Universal. You have stuff like Boss Baby and Troll which make it seem like Universal is turning Dreamworks into the new Illumination and you have others film such as Orion and the dark and The Bad Guys which as based on books. Universal doesn't even seem to put them in much faith nowadays considering the fact some of their films were barely advertise only known due to word of mouth. Say what you want to say, but while I do think that Dreamworks is way more successful in Films than Disney both critically and Financially that doesn't mean the gap is that large. They ironically became what their original owners were against.
DreamWorks sucked since 2011.Animated movies since 2011 lost soul honestly.Even the good ones were souless,only Zootopia,Shaun the sheep,rango and wreck it ralph had soul,They are much better movie than these ones from 2011_now,but those are souless like coco,inside out,spider verse,moana...Just souless stuff that tries hard to be emotional but they feel just forced
Yes, France is a massive tax / money haven for animation production companies. 💸 - Wages are way lower. - Healthcare is free* (meaning you don't factor it in salaries). - There is a special kind of unemployment insurance scheme that gets abused to hire/fire crews ad-nauseam. - Grants from the government to help the arts and animation still apply to AAA brands (e.g Universal) projects. And so is Canada. (For reasons similar to the ones listed above) *You still pay for a third of your care and most medicine, but it's not 500$ for an xRay.
Kung Fu Panda inspired me to start martial arts. I am still doing martial arts, after more than 3 years of first seeing that movie. That series is really close to my heart, and seeing the 4th one be more like a TV show movie makes me sad.
It would be interesting if all of these animators got together and created their own animation studio. Probably make a parody of their old job with a green guy as the protagonist or something. IDK
That's how UPA was founded in the 50s and look at the incredible things they produced. I keep wondering why more animators just don't do something like that, nobody needs the studio system anymore.
I have to say i am so sick of remakes and sequels that even when I see one i would have probably normally been interested in I have no interest in it as it just feels like they are milking these popular IP's for all they are worth, and its kind of sad. Could we at least get a spin off of something at this point? that would atleast be sightly new.
People need to watch movies that are actually good instead of eating up whatever "entertainment" is sat in front of them. I dont understand why studios dump resources into something that isnt going to work... maybe the tap has run dry?
Back when I graduated art school, it was pertty standard practice for France and Canada to be bastions of animation because they have a lot of government subsidies and programs that encourage artists to actually pursue their craft; they have tons of grants and other ways you can get money to fund an animation studio, especially if you can hire a few other people and offer employment through that subsidy or grant - so a lot of animation studios operated there and did like small commercial work while also working on a larger feature film that would be going for the festival circuit later on. Basically they work there not because it's 'cheap' for animators to work there, but because they can actually get paid living wages between the Government helping them and them getting paid crap money as per industry standard - combined it's like, better. Doesn't make it ideal though.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin. One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on. And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2. What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate.
@@movielover7565 please you are delusional don't cap they made lots of great movies. Dreamworks always has been a hit or miss studio you guys should stop calling it golden age when they hit and downfall and bad when they miss, if Dreamworks goes from good to bad and such Disney has been from bad to worse since few years now.
@@AmicusAdastra It's you who is delusional. You're the same blind DreamWorks stan cultist who thinks Trolls 3 is great. DreamWorks went from bad to worse. They've ruined a lot of phenomenal franchises. Meanwhile, Disney is finally making a comeback with things like Percy Jackson, Self, Iwaju, The Bad Batch Season 3, X-Men '97, and etc. And that's just this year so far. DreamWorks, meanwhile, just has one good thing it is a sea of bad that just keeps getting worse throughout the years. Please stop meatriding DreamWorks, kid.
Oh no, I didn't know all of this. I've been wanting to work at Dreamworks for years, this is so disappointing!!! My favourite moment was all of How To Train Your Dragon. Such beautiful movies. They really shaped me as a person
Kung Fu Panda 4's problems with villain's motivation not making sense and so much more could have been fixed had it not been for voice actors changing literally millions of dollars for apparently 20 SECONDS OF DIALOG if what was said about Viper's VA is true. And if so, and odds are it's also a James Wood Hades "You can't have anyone else voice this character" moment, no wonder they shelved them and it fell apart.
If Ruby Gillman never failed at the box-office,DreamWorks would've never given up animating movies in-house and started outsourcing to other studios. What a dark day we live in now,since Walt Disney Animation Studios,Pixar,Sony Pictures Animation ,and Illumination will be the only animation studios in Hollywood animating their movies in-house now,while DreamWorks,Paramount,Warner Bros.,and Netflix will now outsource their animation to other studios. We need another animation studio created and opened in Hollywood,a fifth one that would animate it's movies in-house now for a major studio to fill the void that DreamWorks own' former in-house animation department left now.
No dude, they've been in troubles for a while, their box office has been barely able to make profits ever since they got acquired by Universal. Ruby Gillman just accelerated things.
Honestly as a Disney adult myself, this slightly makes me feel just a little better. Even though both studios are currently low at this point, nothing could make me feel more relaxed if the DreamWorks fanboys started to suffer a lot more than us.
@@JeremyMasterson938 I'm neutral towards both, but damn does the fandom drama make it hard for me to just relax and enjoy stuff I like without having to deal with some dick being like "lol Puss in Boots is chad, Turning Red is virgin".
As a french animator who has worked on TV shows for some american studios (like dreamworks), sadly we're still too expensive for greedy producers. We're currently experiencing a massive hole in employment because they keep wanting to cut corners, so a lot of productions are being moved elsewhere with even cheaper workforce, AND many productions are on hold until they figure out just how much of the pipeline they can simplify via AI rather than create with expensive human workforce. It's a mess for all of us
Thanks for not chalking this up to "Dreamworks is failing because of their recent movies" 😭 I dislike when people online come to conclusions like "Disney is dying" bc they made some mediocre movies recently lol
Don’t call Megamind Vs.The Doom Syndicate effortless. The people who worked on it tried but, they weren’t given the time nor the budget to make the vision that they wanted to make.
I have really high hopes gor the wild robot it has that puss in boots the last wish/spiderman into the spiderverse art style and it gives me massive the last bastion vibes and that is my favorit animated short.
Disney not making 1 billion dollars for the first time in years, rumors that Dreamworks are slicing production costs in half, I'm wondering if these are signs that the times are changing and these cinematic juggernauts are reaching the end of their eras. Not that I'd want them to topple, but things have not been looking pretty as of late, hopefully they can get their game on before a plucky newbie company can strike gold and actually rival them.
we need the competition. it's actually a good thing that the income return for big companies are lessening, since their budget margins are way overblown anyway and are definitely being squandered.
@@willropa4226 It bled into 2023. You DreamWorks stans keep considering Puss in boots 2 to be last year too even though it released in 2022 too and went into 2023. And Avatar 2 released in a lot theaters elsewhere in 2023. It didn't all release in 2022. It released in a lot of other countries in 2023. And many people like Sean Chandler consider that it's more of a 2023 movie for reasons like it was mainly being a box office success in 2023 even though it technically was released in 2022.
Im not surprised puss in boots 2 and how to train your dragon 3 are the only dreamworks movies in the last 5 years that have actually been worth watching and that didn't feel like shameless cash grabs and also the marketing for most dreamworks is terrible too, they always show the worst jokes from the movie and make the movie look like some harmless forgettable kids movie and make the movie look less interesting than it may actually be.
I remember having the Prince of Egypt on VHS growing up, and while I didn't watch as much as The Great Mouse Detective, I still enjoyed it every time I watched it. Some other movies that I loved by the studio include Shrek, Rise of the Guardians, How to Train your Dragon movies, Pus & Boots movie, and the King Fu Panda movies
I think DreamWorks really stretched themselves thin this year if you look on the website and look at the years when the movies came out there at least two movies within a year except 2010 because they released three movies which include how to train your Dragon Shrek four and Megamind but this year they put out three movies soon to be five. What’s the next two entries enter which will include a movie called Boo which is supposed to release this year also the most already known the wild robot and the movie we already got our Orion and the dark Megamind doom syndicate. Yes, I have to include it since it technically counts as a movie, even if both of those movies didn’t get theatrical release we still have to count them and kung fu panda four. Five movies that came from DreamWorks three are already out two are in progress. I really think they stretch themselves Thin with all these movies
So in keeping things positive, what are some of your most cherished DreamWorks-related memories?
Good Vid
Shrek busting out of his hut
Megamind 1
Memories won't fix this.
Ruby Gillman :3
Remember when we all thought Puss In Boots 2 was going to be the start of a new golden age for DreamWorks? Now it feels like we're getting a Universal version of the dark timeline where Circle 7 took over for Pixar. Shrek 5 being crapped out by Illumination now feels like a very real possibility.
Yes
???? dreamworks hasnt done anything bad why tf is everyone all of a sudden saying they've fallen off when they just released one movie that people dont find amazing or isnt that good
@@Kevin-fj3ffpeople know what’s awesome and what’s not awesome, I guess 😂
@@Kevin-fj3ff Because don't like those movies. You might but others don't
Because it was two movies and an entire TV show @@Kevin-fj3ff
apparently Stephanie Ma Stine (the co director for kung fu panda 4) said that there were supposed more story elements than what we were shown in the movie. she said that if they were to bring back tai lung there would have to be a reason for it. the reason is shifu he was supposed to have an arc in this movie regarding tai lung but the dreamworks executives kept trying to cut costs, this also explains why the furious five did not show up in the movie
Oh so it’s what it normally always is. The executives wanting as much money as possible regardless of the quality of the product.
@@joshuaconnall4237 And to think DreamWorks was created to be the antithesis to Disney’s greed…
The director also felt that a comedic movie was more impt and had control of all creative decisions. Whenever she suggested something, to him or the writers, it was thrown out. Apparently the writers also refused any constructive criticism from anyone, and the original character designer left DW a week into working on the movie.
I feel bad for them. DreamWorks had a recipe for success and squandered it.
I'll Say we've Never wanted a Kung Fu Panda Sequel 💀
Seems like universal wants a second illumination
Just when you thought they were back after “The Bad Guys“ and “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish“. Talk about a major false alarm.
It's DreamWorks. They're not above making any of these films with various quality.
A false comeback, if you will.
@@unofficialmeme5972 yeah, let’s go with that
They weren't back. Puss in Boots was a reshuffle of existing media and The Bad Guys had every predictable trope. Those movies were overhyped. Dreamworks Animation died when Illumination bought it. It fell with Voltron.
@@demo2823 Meh. Voltron wasn't anything special.
Dreamworks has always been like this. They have huge hits and massive misses.
GOD I READ THIS WRONG
I get that but having 2 beloved franchises get bad sequels is a massive let down
i had to read through twice because i misread it 😭
LMAOOO@@R0TT3NSTR4BB3RRY
Hopefully The Wild Robot will be a huge hit. I love how the animation in it looks like the PiB2 one
Dreamworks movies fall into any 1 of 3 categories:
-Really good
-Just fun
-Oops
That was back then
@@serily4524now they're just plain bad
@@cupcakKe_expresskung fu panda was just fun I think the over expectation of the last movies made people think it was bad when in reality it was just good/ok
Megamind 2 was a real OOPSY DAISY
Every Dreamworks movie and what I personally say
Antz: Ok
The Prince of Egypt: a Masterpiece
The Road to El Dorado: Pretty Good
Chicken Run: Good
Shrek: Really Good
Spirit: Really Good
Sinbad: Ok
Shrek 2: a Masterpiece
Shark Tale: So Bad it’s Bad
Madagascar: Fun
Were Rabbit: Pretty Good
Over the Hedge: Good
Flushed Away: Good
Shrek the 3rd:
The Bee Movie: Fun
Kung Fu Panda: Really Good
Madagascar 2: Fun
Monsters Vs Aliens: Ok
How to Train your Dragon: a Masterpiece
Shrek Forever After: Really Good
Megamind: Really Good
Kung Fu Panda 2: a Masterpiece
Puss in Boots: Fun
Madagascar 3: Fun
Rise of the Guardians: Really Good
The Croods: Fun
Turbo:
Mr Peabody & Sherman: Pretty Good
How to Train your Dragon 2: Really Good
Penguins of Madagascar: Good
Home: Fun
Kung Fu Panda 3: Pretty Good
Trolls: ok
Boss baby: ok
Captain Underpants: Pretty Good
How to Train your Dragon 3: a Masterpiece
Trolls World Tour: Not Good
Croods 2: Not Good
The Bad Guys: Pretty Good
Puss in Boots the Last Wish: a Masterpiece
Ruby Gillman: Nice
Trolls 3: Good
Just realizing Dreamworks has never had a Renaissance yet
I don’t remember the last time an animation studio Kneecaped two of its most revered IPs in such a short timespan.
The true Megamind and Po will not be forgotten.
Megamind 2 wasn’t made by DreamWorks… kind of. It was a tv movie that acts as a pilot to the Megamind tv series. It’s not made by DreamWorks’ animation studio but rather the tv animation studio.
DREAMWORKS HAS A STUDIO THAT MAKES SHOWS!
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios But Dreamworks Animation Television isn’t a studio of their own. They’re a production company that contracts out to countless animation studios. That’s why Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness was pretty good, why Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts was great, and why Megamind Rules is garbage.
Kung Fu Panda LoA was animated by Paprikaas and Oktobor, Kipo was animated by Studio Mir, and Megamind Rules is animated by 88 pictures.
This is the inconsistency that outsourcing brings. There’ll be some high highs, but the lows are infuriatingly low…
How did we get 2 bad sequels in less then a month 💀💀😭😭
KFP wasn't bad
according to a leak Kung Fu Panda 5 and a Furious 5 movie are in production -
According to many sources the next installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise is currently in development slated for a 2028 release. Dreamworks has fully acknowledged the disappointment from fans when it came to Kung Fu Panda 4 and is attempting to fix their mistakes with this film. The current suspected director for this is Jenifer Yuh Nelson who also directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3. Mike Mitchell who directed Kung Fu Panda 4 is suspected to not return to this franchise any time soon. The film is currently in it's early planning stages, and animation is slated to begin sometime in mid to late 2025.
That is not all the news for the Kung Fu Panda franchise however, as a Furious Five stand alone film is planned for release in 2027. This movie takes place during the events of Kung Fu Panda Four, and viewers will get insight as to what ''mission" the Five were on during the events of the film. It is expected for there to be massive recasts for all of the Furious Five, however the only VA who is currently confirmed not to return is Jackie Chan for ''Master Monkey'' This film will be much more serious in nature when compared to the previous four Kung Fu Panda films. Dreamworks is aiming at a tone that is slightly darker than Kung Fu Panda 2. This film is being directed by Joel Crawford, who also directed Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Croods 2.
Atleast KFP4 is way better than MvDS
@@jayandjlps8022Source?
@@ClickbaitThumbnailVillager Wow
I think it might have started earlier, with the Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans movie. They replaced the original team of writers and outsourced the animation to at least three different studios. And all of that showed, that movie was a disaster in every way. DreamWorks has shown they're still capable of doing great movies, it's a shame Universal doesn't care about them anymore.
Well, if that's the case, I think A24 should probably purchase DreamWorks.
Makes me wonder why Guillermo Del toro was credited as one of the writers of that disaster piece of a film/ train wreck of a finale. Like seriously if Star vs finale wasn’t worse I would have considered rise of the titans to be the worst finale to an animated series I have ever seen. Instead it’s a runner up.
That movie was such an insane disappointment thanks for reminding me lol 🙃
Hop off peak, man
What Trollhunters movie? /s
I don’t have a problem with the movies being outsourced. Quality animation can be seen in all types of artworks, from “Lackadaisy” to “Digital Circus” to “Autodale”.
It’s not what we see that draws people to movies, but the story and plot. I feel like THAT is the problem.
About Autodale, the creator of that series is currently making a new series called Sauria. Y'all should check it out.
You ain't wrong. But the issue with movies being outsourced is that these smaller animation Studios are non-unionized, which is a massive issue because that means more American animators would probably be left job-less. Not to mention the fact that American studios and animation Studios in other countries don't really have the best solutions when it comes to communication.
Except literally all of those were created by passionate, small teams. Not by a company.
that’s not really comparable at all - dreamworks is not a Lackadaisy-size company. they have a huge amount of money and influence. outsourcing doesn’t just mean that someone else is making the animation, it means that someone else with less bargaining power & less creative investments in the project are making it. Dreamworks isn’t an animation studio after this, they’re just a wrapping paper around a rube goldberg money-making scheme.
I do. Problem is that the intent for outsourcing isn't to expand and reach out to talent in other countries and gain other perspectives. It's the benefit from the american company and abuse already lower cost of living countries even worse with sweatshop salaries for skilled labor.
They want to have their American audience cake and eat it without paying the already abysmal american wages. Something needs to come down.
It's crazy after Last Wish, they've been fumbling back to back.
The Bad Guys was an excellent film too. Two absolute banger films in one year and now they’ve fallen off so hard. Sad.
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The bad guys is mid at best. It's generic.
once again, as I repeat to many other people, Dreamwork's brand is literally making a great movie then make a bad movie for the next few years until a good movie arives
Maybe but IDK about this, it sounds like serious trouble behind the scenes.
Usually. But tthis time it sounds lile the animation studio disolving into micro attempts avroad, nothing big and focused anymore. Sounds like they are giving up on bigger or better movies for good.
Not sure I want a second Monsters vs Aliens movie as much now after seeing and hearing about Megamind 2.
I want new IPs, please.
You haven't seen the MvA television series, have you?
Tbf they were definitely going to milk MVA but I believe thst movie didn't make good money
@@MistyLose It made decent amount of money, just that the profit margin was low due to the high budget.
@@dwaynewood2424 Theres a MvA series??
I forgot dreamworks made rise of the guardians
From an amazing puss and boots movie to megamind falling apart 😭😭
i mean Dreamworks has always been inconsistent with their movies
@@floraosc compared to disney, but that’s a whole another story…
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin.
One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on.
And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2.
What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate.
Also last note.
I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss.
That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
Remember when everyone thought Last Wish would usher in a new golden age for DreamWorks?
Hoo boy did it, an age of golden nuggets if you know what I'm saying.
Maybe it was less of a sign of a new beginning and more like a last hurrah...
Nah, Dreamworks was never entering a golden age, but they aren’t falling apart or going downhill either. They’ve always been a hit or miss studio and experiment with all kinds of things to see what works.
@@SuperAbdul19 After Last Wish maybe all of these latest and greatest flops are just what we needed to remind us of how DreamWorks, well, works.
Definitely a crapshoot but one worth taking on occasions.
I'd say people got caught into the hype train pretty badly. I mean, Last Wish was an excellent movie and was much better received than Disney's recent animation films, and since people were getting angry at Disney and at the same time mocking them for some of their recent failures, people thought that DW would have taken the chance and surpass them
@@pablocasas5906 Considering that all of these movies, Last Wish and all the flops, were obviously being made at the same time I doubt they were ever intending on "surpassing" Disney.
It was all just people making up shit in their heads.
Historically DW has been inconsistent. They’ve produced amazing movies and then duds. The only reason to think it would be a last hurray is due to the fact they’ve 1) learned all the wrong lessons from the success of those movies. And 2) cuz they’ve laid off 50% off their staff after their string of failures after they stopped giving a shit.
I have a feeling there are a lot of teams working on a lot of projects- it's just that only team "A" so to speak, is producing anything that works. The puss in boots team
There was actually a leak that showed Kung Fu Panda 5 and a Furious Five film are in production, I'll post the leak in my replies if I can find it
According to many sources the next installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise is currently in development slated for a 2028 release. Dreamworks has fully acknowledged the disappointment from fans when it came to Kung Fu Panda 4 and is attempting to fix their mistakes with this film. The current suspected director for this is Jenifer Yuh Nelson who also directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3. Mike Mitchell who directed Kung Fu Panda 4 is suspected to not return to this franchise any time soon. The film is currently in it's early planning stages, and animation is slated to begin sometime in mid to late 2025.
That is not all the news for the Kung Fu Panda franchise however, as a Furious Five stand alone film is planned for release in 2027. This movie takes place during the events of Kung Fu Panda Four, and viewers will get insight as to what ''mission" the Five were on during the events of the film. It is expected for there to be massive recasts for all of the Furious Five, however the only VA who is currently confirmed not to return is Jackie Chan for ''Master Monkey'' This film will be much more serious in nature when compared to the previous four Kung Fu Panda films. Dreamworks is aiming at a tone that is slightly darker than Kung Fu Panda 2. This film is being directed by Joel Crawford, who also directed Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Croods 2.
I'd love to see it if you do
I read that Mike Mitchell wants Kung Fu Panda 5 to have the Furious 5 "front and centre" for the next instalment. He also said that he wants to explore the oceanic animals for this movie because the armour of Master Dolphin exists. We haven't seen aquatic animals, really. Finally, he mentioned that he'd also like to see insect characters like Mantis appear. He isn't sure what kind of direction the movie will take, but if he ends up being a major part of it, this is possibly how the 5th film may happen.
@jayandjlps8022 Wow, DreamWorks want to improve, and they listened to the fans... this is why I love DreamWorks
@@jayandjlps8022wow 2028. Pretty short time to release another movie in the franchise. But man 4 years all of us are going to be older
I am BEGGING that the wild robot one is good, because it looks so beautiful and I'd genuinely love to see it. The design looks simple, but still mildly ominous. The forest and lighting looks great, not to mention the reflection in the robot's "eyes" looking STUNNING, I have high hopes for it.
Darn Im also disappointed Captain Underpants was not actually made by Dreamworks animators, it was such a fun movie that it reminded me as a kid watching Emperor New Groove and reading the og books
Why were you disappointed Captain Underpants wasn't done by DreamWorks's Glendale Studio?
@@spaceboyctstudios2934 just thought DreamWorks was getting more experimental
Yeah. You thought some innovation was happening and that the people there did something great, only to learn youve been praising the wrong guys the whole time for something they didnt do.
DreamWorks Animation and Illumination the sister animation studios to Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar both owned by Universal Pictures while Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios are owned by the Walt Disney Company, actually unlike Disney Animation and Pixar collaborated with other movie companies to make feature films, from 2012 to 2018 Illumination (After Dr. Seuss Enterprises collaborated with Blue Sky Studios to produce Horton Hears a Who! In 2008) collaborated with Dr. Seuss enterprises to co produce and distribute four adaptations of Dr. Seuss books, and their animated television special adaptations, The Lorax in 2012, How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 2018, The Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You’ll Go!, however creative differences lead to Illumination producing the adaptations of The Lorax, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Or The Grinch their own ways, sorta making them drift away from the source material from the books and specials making them lighter and softer removing all the dark material the original books had and flanderizing some of the characters beyond belief and the mixed to negative reviews of The Grinch and The Lorax lead to Dr. Seuss Enterprises realizing that Illumination was bad at adapting Dr. Seuss books due to the aforementioned creative differences and terminated their collaboration with Illumination cancelling their adaptations of The Cat in the Hat and Oh the Places You’ll Go! Were cancelled and Dr. Seuss Enterprises would form a new collaboration and contract with the Warner Animation Group to produce The Cat in the Hat, its spin-off focusing on Thing 1 and Thing 2, The Sneetches, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh the Places You’ll Go that were more positively reviewed than The Grinch and The Lorax, and deemed huge improvements over those films, Illumination would later collaborate with the video game company Nintendo in 2019 and 2020 to distribute and co-produce The Super Mario Bros. Movie a computer-animated feature film based on the Super Mario Bros. video games from Nintendo already in pre production, and the movie was released in April 2023 to critical and commercial success leading to Nintendo and Illumination extending their collaboration and contract with no creative differences this time around (And since Illumination is much better at adapting Nintendo video games than they are at Dr. Seuss book.) to produce more computer animated movies based on Nintendo video games including Kirby, Nintendo Land, Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser’s Fury, Super Mario 3D World, Yoshi, Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, The Legend of Zelda, Galaga, Pac-Man and Sonic the Hedgehog and sequels to The Super Mario Bros. Movie and films starring Wario and Waluigi make a Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
As for DreamWorks Animation, the other animation studio initially in 1997 collaborated with Aardman, the british stop-motion animation studio to distribute and co-produce Chicken Run, a stop-motion animated feature film already in pre production which was released in 2000 to critical and commercial success, leading to DWA and Aardman extending their collaboration for five more movies produced in the next twelve years even after DWA retired producing traditionally animated feature films in favor of producing computer-animated ones after the release of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in 2003, with DWA and Aardman producing and releasing the stop-motion animated feature film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005 and Flushed Away in 2006, the latter being Aardman’s first fully computer-animated feature film, but after the release of Flushed Away, Aardman and DWA would end their collaboration short due to creative differences, with Aardman collaborating with Sony Pictures Animation next and Aardman and DWA producing one of the films in their collaboration, a movie about paleolithic humans separately after the termination, Aardman produced Early Man in 2018, plus a sequel to Chicken Run, Dawn of the Nugget in 2023, and DWA produced The Croods in 2013 and a sequel, The Croods: A New Age in 2020.
DWA would later collaborate with Scholastic to coproduce and distribute Captain UnderPants: The First Epic Movie in 2017 based on the Captain UnderPants books by Dav Pilkey and The Bad Guys in 2022, based on The Bad Guys books by Aaron Bladley and they would both be followed by a sequel to The Bad Guys, The Bad Guys 2 on 2025 and a sequel Captain UnderPants television series, the Epic Tales of Captain UnderPants plus a spin-off based on the Dog Man graphic novels also by Dav Pilkey in 2025.
While Pixar has never produced any movies based on books, literature or any video games before aside from A Bug’s Life being loosely based on the Ant and the Grasshopper and Brave being in a fairy tale genre, and its ambiguous if it will ever do so in the future due to their obsession with producing all original stories, and extreme creative differences, Walt Disney Animation Studios has done so multiple times in the past as part of its history, golden ages and legacy, but never collaborated with any other animation studios to produce movies before just like Pixar except indirectly with Marvel for Big Hero 6 and its also unknown if Disney Animation will being doing so anytime in the near future.
Makes you worried for Shrek 5
Agreed.
Indeed. It may be the one exception they go all hands on since it's the golden goose, but I can just as easily see it being the Minions of the franchise. Super successful but it completely removes the soul of what made Shrek Shrek. Now he just funny AI orgre making fart jokes.
Shrek 5? I thought they were gonna reboot the series, now they are actually planning a sequel to the OG?
@@SammEater
Yes even though the 4th one was supposed to be the final one. They even said so themselves. Shrek 5 is the most unnecessary, useless, lazy, disgusting, greedy, idiotic, stupid ass, shitty, soulless cash grabs ever made right now.
Maybe this'll teach "animation fans" a lesson about using an animation studio to bash another. DreamWorks has always gone through this cycle yet everyone went mob mentality on another studio after The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots 2 came out. Well the shoe is now on the other foot.
It was deeper than that. They used DreamWorks to bash Halle Bailey as Ariel specifically. Hiding their bigotry behind their hate for a company. Disney is trying to change, it's going through a hiccup like it did in the 50s.
Yeah, I'd say that most animation fans don't know exactly how companies work, whether we like it or not making movies is still a business and the quality of the creative are in studios can vary a lot depending on the project. Just because a studio manage to made a hit it doesn't mean all of their movies will be successes.
THIS
Man I feel bad for animators they just want to create art and in the end they just get screwed over by big companies
Dreamworks can make good movies or trash movies. People forgot this after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin.
One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on.
And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2.
What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate.
Also last note.
I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss.
That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
Disney: "First time?"
Puss 2 is GOAT
Panda 4 and Megamind destroys my childhood
WHAT HAPPENED!?
Puss in Boots 2 really was just a one and done goldmine for Dreamworks.
Also hey I see you with the Danganronpa music in the beginning there that game has an amazing soundtrack!
The funny part is it technically didn't make a profit. It technically isn't a box office success.
It took one good movie for people to think Dreamworks was going to oust Pixar and Disney as the new best animation studio.
Those people forgot the number 1 thing about dreamworks, inconsistency.
I think that is one thing with illumination most of time they are consistently fine
@@lightdarksoul2097 consistently bad, more like it. They have 2 good movies, Despicable Me and The Super Mario movie
@@kerryli9830 we can say that but their movies are rated higher than stuff like home. Also people do watch their movies. Plus I heard the bird movie was actually not bad
Pretty much every company is inconcsistent.
@@kerryli9830
Yep. And The Mario Bros. is more like a Nintendo movie.
hay Dazz, a lot of other background things may be going on. As in DreamWorks is just unable to produce mega hits like they used too. Thus, they are unable to compete with other companies production. A lot of these is just the cost of production (and somewhat marketing) going way up and the returns just are not there anymore. Remember, they may report how much it cost to actually make a animated movie, but they DO NOT repost how much the movie theaters take and usually dose the total spent on marketing.
DreamWorks building up all that goodwill they had after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, only to flush it all down the toilet in the past month feels like the most DreamWorks thing ever
Kung Fu Panda 4 was not something I needed, but a welcome addition with funny quips I was very satisfied with. Megamind 2 + The show on the other hand...
Exactly!! Honestly KFP4 is not a bad film. It's a good movie, that falls on the weaker side of the franchise (just like KFP3). But to say it's as bad as something like Shrek the Third is outright wrong.
"Kfp4 is not a bad film" you can keep lying to yourself all u want, but that wont change the movie is terrible, if u aint a movie reviewer dont talk@@martinaguiluz4063
Cuevas, if u want a comedy movie; look for it somewhere else
@@serily4524 Yeah, like Freddy Got Fingered (Real movie btw, I dare you to watch it)
@@martinaguiluz4063 I actually took my cousins(Both over 10) to see it and we had a blast. Sure, it wasn't as good as the original, but it was still a good movie. I do hope that there isn't a Kung Fu Panda 5 because Po passing on the title of Dragon Warrior should be treated as the ending it should be. It's not the very best of Kung Fu Panda, but none of the Kung Fu Panda movies have actually been bad.
As much as these greedy sob execs in suits try to corporately meddle with things, it was Dreamworks' HUGE hits that filled their pockets.
This move doesn't seem so bad tbh. Sony and Columbia did make "Mitchells vs The Machines" after all, and that looked and felt really good to watch!
They exhausted all of KFP and Megamind budget and talent on The last wish
So basically, Last Wish was their Avengers Endgame, all that talent burned out in one final project and now there is nothing left.
Watch people acknowledge the biggest trait about DreamWorks with consistency of Ws and Ls and then forget about it again if The Wild Robot turns out amazing.
All of you placed your trust in DreamWorks too early when they released one good film while the rest were mediocre.
I still remember seeing spirit in theatres with my mom. It’s one of the last memories I have with her before she pulled away and stopped spending time with me when I was young. She let me have whatever I wanted from concession and I had a big bag of cotton candy. It’s one of my favourite memories. The movie was incredible and being with my mom was awesome.
Remember when DreamWorks first came out with the Prince of Egypt even people who didn’t believe in Christianity love this movie. The soundtrack, the imagery, the VOICE ACTING. Everything about that story just felt like it moved you.
But Lord knows what is really in peoples hearts. These corporations don’t care about their staff nor what comes out as a result, all they care for is money which will get them nothing in the long run.
Yeah, what a masterpiece that movie was. Even with it being a fairly basic retelling you could still see back then that the creators and artists were allowed time to hone their inspiration to make it properly enjoyable. Now just like their easiest demographic, the current youth; the animation companies have no patience and attention span. The only results being the half-baked and forgettable.
Me at Dreamworks when they made The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: ''Wow! Great job, guys! Looks like we're getting a Golden Age of Dreamworks after all.''
Me at Dreamworks when they made Kung Fu Panda 4, Megamind 2, and Trolls 3: ''... WHAT HAPPENED!?''
Dreamworks: ''... Weeell, at least The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots The Last Wish were great first attempts, right?''
Don't forget their other flops like Teenage Kraken, Orion, Megamind Rules, The Bad Guys Christmas Special, the rest of their awful shows, the rest of their awful shorts, the rest of their awful specials, and etc. And before that, in the past few years, there's their garbage like Abominable, the shitty Spirit remake in 2021, and etc.
And the bad guys was mid at best. It's not good. It's a generic flop.
@@movielover7565 In your opinion.
trolls 3 was good stop capin
@@AmicusAdastra No, it wasn't DreamWorks Stan.
It would be funny if DreamWorks announced a Shark Tale 2 and it ended up being one of their best sequels
Even if it’s bad it’s more entertaining than every movie this decade( not including 2022)
I don’t really hear people talk about The Croods, but the first one was the first movie I ever went to see in a theater
Always love hopping in for one of these :3
remember that everyone thought, especially little boys that DreamWorks was gonna destroy and kill Disney with Puss in Boots 2?
If dreamworks fucks up with the wild robot I am gonna lose my shit. Tbh I have a high feeling they will.
5:40 It wasn't a DreamWorks movie, but I remember going to see Harry Potter 3: The Prisoner of Askiban, and the theater gave out little legos that you could build the bus from that same movie. Me and my family spent some time before the movie building the bus before we went to watch the movie. It was nice
Glad I never hopped on the dreamworks hype train, saw something like this coming from a mile away.
Dreamworks is a bit frazzled eh
Same man.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin.
One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on.
And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2.
What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate.
Also last note.
I'm going to be honest in that front, peoples REALLY should STOP calling a studio god or golden age everytime they are making a hit movie or calling them bad and screaming about downfall when they make a miss movie, it's seriously annoying and well all know DW is the perfect example of Hit or Miss.
That's not because they made 1 or 2 good movies that the following ones will be absolute masterpieces, and that's not because they made 1 or 2 bad movies that all the following ones will be bad.
same
More journalistic updates on the animation industry including interviews with people working on the projects would be fascinating, at the very least keeping everyone abreast of developments like this is important!
only thing is, will he be asking cherry picked opinions or will he cover all his bases?
Never thought that DreamWorks will be making mid movies...
Are y’all surprised?
Bruh, they're always like this.
People should Stop Seeing a Few Good movies as a Golden age or some bad ones as a downfall
at this point it seems random
Who knows maybe Disney releases a really good movie soon
@@Ladyjuliet-uv5qt ok that’s not happening considered they’re riding on sequels
They are all over the place
*I guess Puss in Boots 2 taught them nothing* 🤷
hey...danganronpa music...a man of culture i see
EDIT: AND THEN SMASH MUSIC?! ...there is no higher hierarchy for you sir
Puss in Boots 2 is like the Encanto of Dreamworks.
Yeah. And you don’t see the Disney fans using clips from Encanto to mock the DreamWorks fans with their two films that came out that same year which by the way were TERRIBLE.
@@JeremyMasterson938
Orion is also terrible too.
@@JeremyMasterson938 ) indeed
Ruby Gillman bombing at the box office really hit them hard didn't it?
Ruby flopped SO HARD that they kept it only 18 days in US movie theaters...
@@rafaelcr44 It didn't even last 3 weeks in theaters?
For every dreamworks masterpiece you get 2 maybe 3 medicore or bad movies. It was always like that with them and even considering their big titles (cough shrek 3). Sure its sad they decided to just milk Kung fu Panda with a movie thst feels like a longer episode of a spinoff cartoon but this isnt anything out of normal for them
time for disney to pull out their checkbook
DreamWorks being owned by the very company it was created to destroy would be interesting.
Well Di$ney is on goverment life support now so they wouldnt be able to afford it anyway
@@googamp32 wouldnt be first time like Fox
@@racingraptor4758 Why did you censor Disney??? It’s a normal person’s last name not a Dictator
If any company would have the ability to pony up the cash to buy DreamWorks, it would be their sister studio Illumination. Which is already under the same Universal Studios/Comcast corporate umbrella, making the point kinda moot. No in the future it'll be more likely that Illumination and all the money it keeps bringing in, will allow Universal to buy out Disney like they wanted to in 2006.
DAMN, FIRST blue sky and NOW DreamWorks, what a bummer
dreamworks is going to outsource animation to animation companies outside of the country for 2 reasons, to save money and just in case another strike happens because people believe another strike will happen this year
i will never forget the day i saw HTTYD2 in 3D premiere week. absolutely incredible movie
Personally I liked httyd2 and Mr Peabody and Sherman really much. Coincidentally both from 2014. *Almost 10 f**#cking** years ago*
We live in a society where Illumination is loved while dreamworks is shamed.
Why can’t we have 2 cakes and have both be praised?
AGREED.
Honestly, in my personal opinion ever since Dreamworks was brought by Universal Pictures in 2016, they been making more mediocre products than good nowadays. Back in their early years despite being a mixed bag they were a lot more risk taking, unlike now while they still do pull out occasional bangers, they feel a lot more safe, and stale ever since they were brought by Universal. You have stuff like Boss Baby and Troll which make it seem like Universal is turning Dreamworks into the new Illumination and you have others film such as Orion and the dark and The Bad Guys which as based on books. Universal doesn't even seem to put them in much faith nowadays considering the fact some of their films were barely advertise only known due to word of mouth. Say what you want to say, but while I do think that Dreamworks is way more successful in Films than Disney both critically and Financially that doesn't mean the gap is that large. They ironically became what their original owners were against.
So Dreamworks may be heading to an Illumination 2.0 future? :(
DreamWorks sucked since 2011.Animated movies since 2011 lost soul honestly.Even the good ones were souless,only Zootopia,Shaun the sheep,rango and wreck it ralph had soul,They are much better movie than these ones from 2011_now,but those are souless like coco,inside out,spider verse,moana...Just souless stuff that tries hard to be emotional but they feel just forced
@@Anti2020sshut the hell up, I don’t get what you’re even saying
Dreamworks tried being original with Ruby Gillman. They can’t even make a proper sequel twice, I’m crying
Because Disney does ? Its not any better and the worst is tha they keep grinding on sequels i'm crying laughing right now.
RIP DreamWorks… looks like Illumination was the favorite child after all…
How did you ever doubt that
It’s Obvious that they’ve always been the favorite. Universal should just shut DreamWorks down for good.
Yes, France is a massive tax / money haven for animation production companies. 💸
- Wages are way lower.
- Healthcare is free* (meaning you don't factor it in salaries).
- There is a special kind of unemployment insurance scheme that gets abused to hire/fire crews ad-nauseam.
- Grants from the government to help the arts and animation still apply to AAA brands (e.g Universal) projects.
And so is Canada. (For reasons similar to the ones listed above)
*You still pay for a third of your care and most medicine, but it's not 500$ for an xRay.
Kung Fu Panda inspired me to start martial arts. I am still doing martial arts, after more than 3 years of first seeing that movie.
That series is really close to my heart, and seeing the 4th one be more like a TV show movie makes me sad.
It would be interesting if all of these animators got together and created their own animation studio. Probably make a parody of their old job with a green guy as the protagonist or something. IDK
I believe Locksmith Animation is sort of like that. Even if it was founded by former workers of Aardman Animations.
That's how UPA was founded in the 50s and look at the incredible things they produced. I keep wondering why more animators just don't do something like that, nobody needs the studio system anymore.
What’s ironic is that DreamWorks was founded by a spiteful former Disney employee, so that would be hideously ironic
Ignore that I said ironic twice by accident, this device won’t let me edit or delete comments
I have to say i am so sick of remakes and sequels that even when I see one i would have probably normally been interested in I have no interest in it as it just feels like they are milking these popular IP's for all they are worth, and its kind of sad. Could we at least get a spin off of something at this point? that would atleast be sightly new.
You say that but DreamWorks tried original with Ruby Gillman and no one cared. Original is great but if it doesn't sell then who cares
People need to watch movies that are actually good instead of eating up whatever "entertainment" is sat in front of them. I dont understand why studios dump resources into something that isnt going to work... maybe the tap has run dry?
Here's the problem with you said. How will they know what to think of a movie if they don't watch it?
Back when I graduated art school, it was pertty standard practice for France and Canada to be bastions of animation because they have a lot of government subsidies and programs that encourage artists to actually pursue their craft; they have tons of grants and other ways you can get money to fund an animation studio, especially if you can hire a few other people and offer employment through that subsidy or grant - so a lot of animation studios operated there and did like small commercial work while also working on a larger feature film that would be going for the festival circuit later on. Basically they work there not because it's 'cheap' for animators to work there, but because they can actually get paid living wages between the Government helping them and them getting paid crap money as per industry standard - combined it's like, better. Doesn't make it ideal though.
*Disney and DreamWorks went down in quality after making a great movie*
Sony Animation: *Nervously sweating with flashbacks from 2017*
How did they make two great moves in 2022 and then immediately went back into slump?
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish was perfection. Problem is, you can’t top perfection, so movies can only get worse.
Memories won't fix this.
I love Dreamworks more than Disney tbh but my problem with them is that they decide the quality of their movies by the flip of a coin.
One time it's a masterpiece, one time it's bad, and goes on.
And the fact that there are massive layoff and new directors and writters and all don't make it better especially when its their tv branch and Peacock who animated Megamind 2.
What worries me now is that they are the ones that will make The Bad Guys 2 and Shrek 5 and i'm worried about their fate.
I believe Wild Robot will put them back on track.
No it won't. And don't do that stupid shit again. One decent movie does not make a company great again.
@@movielover7565 please you are delusional don't cap they made lots of great movies. Dreamworks always has been a hit or miss studio you guys should stop calling it golden age when they hit and downfall and bad when they miss, if Dreamworks goes from good to bad and such Disney has been from bad to worse since few years now.
@@AmicusAdastra It's you who is delusional. You're the same blind DreamWorks stan cultist who thinks Trolls 3 is great. DreamWorks went from bad to worse. They've ruined a lot of phenomenal franchises. Meanwhile, Disney is finally making a comeback with things like Percy Jackson, Self, Iwaju, The Bad Batch Season 3, X-Men '97, and etc. And that's just this year so far. DreamWorks, meanwhile, just has one good thing it is a sea of bad that just keeps getting worse throughout the years. Please stop meatriding DreamWorks, kid.
@@AmicusAdastra Not only that, but you're a very biased DreamWorks cultist. You literally can't even be talking.
Universal really need a second illumination don't they?
They would much prefer that to DreamWorks. One makes way more money
@@lightdarksoul2097 that's exactly what i was talking about. Changing DreamWorks to a second illumination
@@KperaOfficial I think they want all DreamWorks films to make that illumination money
Oh no, I didn't know all of this. I've been wanting to work at Dreamworks for years, this is so disappointing!!!
My favourite moment was all of How To Train Your Dragon. Such beautiful movies. They really shaped me as a person
Jeez can the entirety of media stop falling apart please!?
5 years later there’ll be a video called ‘The Fall of Dreamworks’ with 5.73 million views 1 day after the upload of it…
It's like cel animation getting outsourced to Korea and Japan all over again, god I hate executives.
Shut up. You're annoying
Kung Fu Panda 4's problems with villain's motivation not making sense and so much more could have been fixed had it not been for voice actors changing literally millions of dollars for apparently 20 SECONDS OF DIALOG if what was said about Viper's VA is true. And if so, and odds are it's also a James Wood Hades "You can't have anyone else voice this character" moment, no wonder they shelved them and it fell apart.
The last movie I saw in the theaters was puss in boot last wish on my birthday, before it exploded in popularity...
God, I’m so worried for Shrek 5 now. 😢
I hope shrek 5 is better than megamind 2.
You mean that unnecessary soulless cash grab? The 4th one was supposed to be the final one.
It's only gonna make a lot of money because it's Shrek (Same with Toy Story 5)
"No one is getting fired! they're just not gonna work for us anymore!"
Of course it is
If Ruby Gillman never failed at the box-office,DreamWorks would've never given up animating movies in-house and started outsourcing to other studios. What a dark day we live in now,since Walt Disney Animation Studios,Pixar,Sony Pictures Animation ,and Illumination will be the only animation studios in Hollywood animating their movies in-house now,while DreamWorks,Paramount,Warner Bros.,and Netflix will now outsource their animation to other studios. We need another animation studio created and opened in Hollywood,a fifth one that would animate it's movies in-house now for a major studio to fill the void that DreamWorks own' former in-house animation department left now.
No dude, they've been in troubles for a while, their box office has been barely able to make profits ever since they got acquired by Universal. Ruby Gillman just accelerated things.
To Disney adults, this must be karma to them for getting their asses verbally assaulted by Dreamworks fanboys.
As a Disney adult, you're not wrong. The Schadenfreude IS quite enjoyable.
Disney is also failing
@@skootergirl22 Everyone loses! Hahaha!
Honestly as a Disney adult myself, this slightly makes me feel just a little better. Even though both studios are currently low at this point, nothing could make me feel more relaxed if the DreamWorks fanboys started to suffer a lot more than us.
@@JeremyMasterson938 I'm neutral towards both, but damn does the fandom drama make it hard for me to just relax and enjoy stuff I like without having to deal with some dick being like "lol Puss in Boots is chad, Turning Red is virgin".
As a french animator who has worked on TV shows for some american studios (like dreamworks), sadly we're still too expensive for greedy producers.
We're currently experiencing a massive hole in employment because they keep wanting to cut corners, so a lot of productions are being moved elsewhere with even cheaper workforce, AND many productions are on hold until they figure out just how much of the pipeline they can simplify via AI rather than create with expensive human workforce. It's a mess for all of us
Fun fact the studio that made Arcane are based in France. They definitely have something going there
Thanks for not chalking this up to "Dreamworks is failing because of their recent movies" 😭
I dislike when people online come to conclusions like "Disney is dying" bc they made some mediocre movies recently lol
I dunno about recently with Disney lol.
@@bighand1530 They have their ups and downs, just like every company
Disney for the last 5+ years has made only bad animation movies yet dreamworks has released their best animation movie ever 2 years ago
It happens. Not every single movie can be a masterpiece.
@@digitalzealot7026This sure is a long miserable down that has no signs of going up anytime soon…
I just want a second Captain Underpants film man :/
It’s so sad to see the current state of DreamWorks & Pixar which just sucks for all animation in general!
Don’t call Megamind Vs.The Doom Syndicate effortless. The people who worked on it tried but, they weren’t given the time nor the budget to make the vision that they wanted to make.
Did they?... Just in the trailer alone you could see many animation principles broken. Even if they were, they were def set up to fail regardless.
@@boop004 The thing is they didn’t have the budget and they didn’t have the time. They wanted the show to be as cinematic as the movie.
@@boop004 I believe that there could have also been some studio meddling.
@@boop004they had a $500,000 budget from what i've heard somewhere. im surprised it looks as good as it does tbh
You lost the rights to have an opinion
I have really high hopes gor the wild robot it has that puss in boots the last wish/spiderman into the spiderverse art style and it gives me massive the last bastion vibes and that is my favorit animated short.
Disney not making 1 billion dollars for the first time in years, rumors that Dreamworks are slicing production costs in half, I'm wondering if these are signs that the times are changing and these cinematic juggernauts are reaching the end of their eras. Not that I'd want them to topple, but things have not been looking pretty as of late, hopefully they can get their game on before a plucky newbie company can strike gold and actually rival them.
we need the competition. it's actually a good thing that the income return for big companies are lessening, since their budget margins are way overblown anyway and are definitely being squandered.
I hope that newbie companies can strike gold - - we need more animation in the world.
Avatar 2 made them over a billion last year. Tf are you on?
@@movielover7565 Avatar way of water was a 2022 movie, Disney failed to make a 1 billion dollar movie in 2023, tf are You on?
@@willropa4226 It bled into 2023. You DreamWorks stans keep considering Puss in boots 2 to be last year too even though it released in 2022 too and went into 2023. And Avatar 2 released in a lot theaters elsewhere in 2023. It didn't all release in 2022. It released in a lot of other countries in 2023. And many people like Sean Chandler consider that it's more of a 2023 movie for reasons like it was mainly being a box office success in 2023 even though it technically was released in 2022.
Im not surprised puss in boots 2 and how to train your dragon 3 are the only dreamworks movies in the last 5 years that have actually been worth watching and that didn't feel like shameless cash grabs and also the marketing for most dreamworks is terrible too, they always show the worst jokes from the movie and make the movie look like some harmless forgettable kids movie and make the movie look less interesting than it may actually be.
I feel like you don't release something like Megamind 2 if your company is doing remotely well behind the scenes.
“Behind”?
Brother, this shit is falling apart from the scenes they literally show us
Outsourcing is being overused in the animation industry. This gotta stop.
I remember having the Prince of Egypt on VHS growing up, and while I didn't watch as much as The Great Mouse Detective, I still enjoyed it every time I watched it. Some other movies that I loved by the studio include Shrek, Rise of the Guardians, How to Train your Dragon movies, Pus & Boots movie, and the King Fu Panda movies
Shortest gold age ever
I think DreamWorks really stretched themselves thin this year if you look on the website and look at the years when the movies came out there at least two movies within a year except 2010 because they released three movies which include how to train your Dragon Shrek four and Megamind but this year they put out three movies soon to be five. What’s the next two entries enter which will include a movie called Boo which is supposed to release this year also the most already known the wild robot and the movie we already got our Orion and the dark Megamind doom syndicate. Yes, I have to include it since it technically counts as a movie, even if both of those movies didn’t get theatrical release we still have to count them and kung fu panda four. Five movies that came from DreamWorks three are already out two are in progress. I really think they stretch themselves Thin with all these movies