In our current movie climate, the automatic response to a movie doing well financially is for the studio to immediately begin work on a sequel, whether or not there’s any creative reason to do so. For god’s sake, a Spring Breakers sequel is in development right now, and even the original’s biggest star rallying against … Continue reading Movie Review – HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Oh DreamWorks Animation, what will we do with you? It’s clear that you’re trying so hard to reinvent yourselves, to take that genuine affection people have for How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda and recreate it in your other films. In some ways you’re getting REALLY close, but you just can’t stop … Continue reading Movie Review – Mr. Peabody & Sherman
In the past, I’ve briefly touched on my theory that nearly every year since 2008* DreamWorks Animation has had a pretty consistent streak of one good movie and one bad movie. 2008 had Kung Fu Panda and then it had Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 2010 had How to Train Your Dragon and then there was … Continue reading Movie Review – Turbo
DreamWorks Animation and I have a long, complicated relationship. I’ve always been a dyed-in-the-wool Disney fan and an ardent supporter of Pixar, and I’ve generally felt that DreamWorks makes a somewhat second-rate product compared to Pixar. I enjoyed Shrek just like everyone else did, but after four sequels and a spin-off of diminishing returns I … Continue reading Movie Review – The Croods
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