DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation (or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast though its wholly owned subsidiary of NBCUniversal. It is based in Glendale, California and produces animated films, television programs and online virtual games. The studio has currently released a total of 42 feature films.

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 * 1) Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
 * 2) Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)

Why They Are A Dream

 * 1) They're probably best known for creating computer animated films that have become franchises such as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Trolls.
 * 2) Great animation and voice acting in most of their films.
 * 3) Their films have some hilarious, groundbreaking and/or heartwarming moments.
 * 4) They did a great job creating Antz, which was DreamWorks' first feature film, as well as the third fully-CGI animated film ever made (after Toy Story and Cassiopeia). It was then followed by The Prince of Egypt.
 * 5) Not only have they created computer animated films, they've also created traditionally animated films and stop-motion co-productions with Aardman Animations.
 * 6) While their first logo was the same as their parent company DreamWorks Pictures SKG, it later gained their first official logo in Shrek 2 featuring a boy holding some balloons and being lifted to the moon, which was beautiful.
 * 7) They've spawned many television shows based on their films as well as some fantastic original shows such as Dinotrux, Harvey Street Kids/Harvey Girls Forever!, the Tales of Arcadia franchise, Voltron: Legendary Defender, She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
 * 8) It has terrifically awesome music scores from great composers such as Hans Zimmer.
 * 9) They have many easter eggs for every movies.
 * 10) Just like Pixar, they are have plenty of cool and unexpected premises for all of their movies. They are also known for their unique, interesting and creative concepts, such as making each films based on the perspective of such as: ogres (Shrek), zoo animals (Madagascar), pandas (Kung Fu Panda), dragons (How to Train Your Dragon), trolls (Trolls), babies (The Boss Baby), caveman (The Croods), snails (Turbo), aliens (Home), yetis (Abominable) & others.
 * 11) Most of the heroes are beloved, entertaining and memorable, such as Shrek, Alex the Lion, Po, Hiccup, Grug Crood, and Princess Poppy.
 * 12) Most of the villains are really awesome, entertaining and fun.
 * 13) Many of them spawned video games based on their films that are really good, if not decent (such as Chicken Run on PS1, Shrek 2, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Monsters vs. Aliens).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While most of their films are very good, only far of them are either mediocre or hit-or-miss, with only just being mh:awfulmovies:Shark Tale, mh:awfulmovies:Shrek the Third, mh:awfulmovies:Bee Movie, Home, mh:awfulmovies:The Boss Baby, mh:awfulmovies:Spirit Untamed, and mh:awfulmovies:The Boss Baby: Family Business.
 * 2) Some of their films have bombed at the box office especially throughout most of the 2010s.
 * 3) * The box-office bomb of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as other various films around 2003-04, nearly bankrupted not only the animation studio, but the entire company as a whole. As a result, they abandoned 2D animation but would come back to it in the 2010s.
 * 4) * The box-office bombs of Mr. Peabody and Sherman and Penguins of Madagascar lead to a restructuring plan that closed PDI, causing 500 layoffs.

Trivia

 * The animation studio was distributed by the main studio, DreamWorks Pictures from 1998 to 2005, Paramount Pictures from 2006 to 2012, 20th Century Fox from 2013 to 2017, and Universal Pictures since 2017.
 * Jeffrey Katzenberg worked for Walt Disney Studios as a chairman before he became the co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks.
 * Most of DreamWorks' films tend to cost between $125-165 million, but Monsters vs. Aliens is the studio's most expensive film to date, with a budget of $175 million.
 * Time Warner Inc. considered acquiring DreamWorks Animation but it went nowhere.
 * Famed YouTuber Schaffrillas Productions has rehabilitated people's views on DreamWorks, as Schaff really cares for DreamWorks, as well as Shrek 2, The Prince of Egypt, Megamind, Shark Tale (In a "So Bad, it's Good" kind of way), and so on and so forth.''

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