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The first thing audiences will notice is that the team of Aardman Features and Dreamworks Animation carry on with their unique visual style of stop - motion animation popularized by Chicken Run and last year's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit.

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ung Fu Panda 2» is far and away the best film DreamWorks Animation has released to date.

In the game, players race as their favorite DreamWorks Animation characters as they speed, jump, power - up and boost through wacky, wild and wondrous kart courses and compete to be the first to cross the finish line.

If you like action... if you like Clooney... if you like Kidman, you'll really like this new movie from DreamWorks!

Down to the tiny bits of fur on the Three Blind Mice to the individual strands of hair in Merlin's beard and Fiona's hair, DreamWorks Animation advanced already advanced systems to push the envelope and bring alive what started as pencil sketches.

While DreamWorks may not be the best or most reliable animation studio out there and some of their methods are questionable, they are good enough not to dismiss or avoid.

While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when studios have been comfortable doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar studio).

DreamWorks» take on the subject isn't much better than Lionsgate's, but it will survive the cribbing by «Happily» for a couple of reasons.

Perhaps DreamWorks wanted to secure a broad spectrum of viewers with their first outing, but they missed a chance to be more daring.

Related Reviews: DreamWorks Animation: Shrek the Halls • Bee Movie • Kung Fu Panda • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Ratatouille • Meet the Robinsons • Surf's Up • TMNT • Monsters, Inc. • Chicken Little • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Summer Blockbusters: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer • Evan Almighty • Transformers • Knocked Up Fairy Tales: The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition • Sleeping Beauty • Pinocchio • Cinderella Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams The Voice Cast of Shrek the Third: Norbit • The Haunted Mansion • Mulan • Dreamgirls • Valiant • Mr. Toad's Wild Ride The Love Guru • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement • License to Wed • Blades of Glory Part 3s: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

The Shrek that DreamWorks designed is a much more benign figure.

«The Chronicles of Narnia» and the «Harry Potter» series have discovered their own kind of wonder, but the gang at DreamWorks assumes that its audience lives in an unillusioned media world.

From Fiona and her fellow princess» togs right up to all the aforementioned «ooh» and «ahh» business, Dreamworks Animation once again affirms itself as Pixar's worthiest CG «toon competitor in terms of striving for artful photo - realism.

This time the Dreamworks animators have made an attempt to render their characters more lifelike, which brings them closer to that soulless, creepy look of The Polar Express.

DreamWorks Animation's quest to chase down Pixar calls to mind gadget makers» pursuit of Apple.

Directed by Shawn Levy; written by John Gatins, based on a story by Dan Gilroy and Jeremy Leven and the short story «Steel,» by Richard Matheson; director of photography, Mauro Fiore; edited by Dean Zimmerman; music by Danny Elfman; production design by Tom Meyer; costumes by Marlene Stewart; produced by Mr. Levy, Don Murphy and Susan Montford; released by DreamWorks Pictures.

One thing the DreamWorks / PDI team has to its advantage is that their animation continues to improve and in the swiftly, rapidly changing world of CG, keeping your stable of successful characters looking better and better is half the battle won.

Walt Disney with his early shorts of singing and dancing bunnies or skeletons; Tim Burton with his Jack Skellington and Sally in «The Nightmare Before Christmas»; Nick Park with his man - and - dog team in «Wallace and Gromit» and his prisoner - fowl in «Chicken Run»; Chuck Jones with just about anything — there's a long and varied list of individuals who have imbued cartoon characters with bottomless expressiveness without the help of anything as sophisticated as DreamWorks» Express - o - matic (or whatever it's called).

All, that is, apart from DreamWorks Animation — until now.

«The Peacemaker,» the first film from Dreamworks Pictures, is a crackling suspense - thriller that never lets up, and that's a problem.

The set - up of DreamWorks» latest comedy animation is the best thing in it: two alien superbeings fall to earth, one lands on his feet at a happy family hearth, the other fetches up in prison where he learns some very artful dodges.

Michael Jackson's «Bad,» blasted near the end of «Megamind,» the witty 3 - D animated deconstruction of superhero movies from DreamWorks Animation, encapsulates the paradoxes of a story in which evil morphs into good and vice versa.

With an origin story borrowed from Superman, an elaborate lair borrowed from Batman, and a skin complexion borrowed from a robin's egg, Megamind - the title character of DreamWorks Animation's smart, snappy superhero send - up - is a villain to love.

Desmond was also seen in TAKEN, the Emmy - winning Dreamworks mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg and as a series regular on LA DRAGNET with Ed O'Neil on ABC.

Within DreamWorks» 21 - film canon, I'd rank Megamind in the upper portion, although the studio's output is so generally and reliably middling, that it's tough to establish a really clear range of high and low points.

Produced by Aardman Studios and DreamWorks, the characters have the same look as the stop - motion clay animals in «Wallace & Gromit,» except this time they're nowhere near as cool, because the visuals are done with software.

You can tell the grownup boys behind DreamWorks are having a lot of fun with their pot shots.

It's no fault of the actors, but if you want to analyse the differences between DreamWorks and Pixar, here's where to start.

DreamWorks famously committed to releasing a record three films in 2010 and has gone on to do so with mixed results.

According to the press materials, «Shrek» avails itself of a DreamWorks «proprietary» facial animation system (first used in «Antz») that uses a layering process to build the image of a character's face, starting with the skull and then gradually adding computer re-creations of muscles and skin.

As many people pointed out at the time, the figure of Farquaad, who was stumpy and egotistical, may have been a swipe at Michael Eisner, who was then Disney's chairman and the former boss of Jeffrey Katzenberg, a DreamWorks partner.

The characters in the «Shrek» series may resemble rubber bathtub toys, but DreamWorks» computer - generated imagery, with its three - dimensional look, gives them shadows and weight as they fling themselves hither and yon into distant castle - strewn perspectives.

Having seen nearly every computer - animated film made, I would rank Shrek and Shrek 2 near the top of the second tier, just below the fine films of Pixar and on par with DreamWorks» other successes (like Antz, Over the Hedge).

Pixar has mastered the concept, now DreamWorks successfully follows suit.

Hugh Jackman stars as a former boxer who gets into the popular sport of robot boxing in this DreamWorks tale from director Shawn Levy.

Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill lend their voices to this DreamWorks Animation hit about heroes and villains in Metro City.

Typical of DreamWorks Animation toons, «Megamind» is crammed with pop culture references and jokes invented to show how up - to - the - minute it is in its slang and encyclopedic comic - book know - how.

We speak with star Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy on the Detroit set of this DreamWorks adventure about the intriguing world of robot boxing.

Aardman Productions and DreamWorks the same folks who gave us Wallace and Gromit movies seem to have perfected the clay animation techniques and incorporated a lot more CGI.

DreamWorks isn't giving up on November just yet; though the much - anticipated Kung Fu Panda 2 is opening on the more historically proven Memorial Day weekend, the Shrek spin - off Puss in Boots is slated to hit theaters on November 4th.

Given that The Peacemaker is the first ever movie from the newly formed DreamWorks movie studio, the brainchild of Steven Spielberg, it comes as a certain surprise that the plot is one of the most basic action movie plots - catching the terrorist who stole several weapons of mass destruction and intends to use them.

Whatever DreamWorks comes up with to pad out the next couple of movies, they're going to have to lift their game.

It crystallises a dilemma that DreamWorks Animation has always had — a policy of loading the voice cast with A-listers ultimately burdens the script and the story.

Dreamworks Home Entertainment DVD's go the distance in terms of audio selection.

The DreamWorks Animation movie hopes to have the «Largest Gathering of Superheroes» ever assembled in one place on October 2.

Paramount / DreamWorks needs to use the higher formats more often.

Megamind Starring: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt Director: Tom McGrath Writers: Alan J. Schoolcraft & Brent Simons Studio: Dreamworks Rated PG Time: 96 minutes

(The pop - cultural references and canny music selections, meanwhile, mark «Flushed Away» as an all - American DreamWorks animation product.)

Somewhat surprisingly, Harry Gregson - Williams \» score for Dreamworks \» Shrek the Third is a step up from his work for the first sequel.