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The movie can not be the best Dreamworks movie, but the game is really funny.

Not exact matches

Much like NBCUniversal's $ 200 - million investment in Vox Media, and a similarly - sized investment in BuzzFeed, the DreamWorks acquisition provides the company with content it can not only shove down the pipe that it owns into people's homes, but can distribute in other ways as well, especially online and through streaming services.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

The acquisition will give NBCUniversal access to highly valuable entertainment properties, which also include «Madagascar» and «How to Train Your Dragon,» as well as DreamWorks Animation's supply of TV programming.

The only thing that could prevent the DreamWorks» cavemen family from a good weekend is the poor box - office performance of the year so far.

But all wasn't well for DreamWorks this weekend.

A younger, less well - read me would have bought DreamWorks with no hesitation.

Anthony also appeared in the DreamWorks» blockbuster Transformers, directed by Michael Bay; as well as in Martin Scorsese's Oscar ® winning feature, The Departed.

Diego Costa as PUSS IN BOOTS: Former teenage footballer Antonio Banderas played the voice - over in the animated Dreamworks version so who better to portray the deceit and trickery of the cat than a fellow Spaniard who knows a thing or two about winding up the opposition.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

While DreamWorks» latest, Megamind, claims to redefine the superhero movie, in reality it's the Zune of motion pictures: a spiffy, well - designed product that's also unmistakably an off - brand imitation.

2010 is supposed to bring both Shrek Goes Fourth and the feature - length spin - off Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer, while DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has claimed that a fifth and final film is in the works as well.

If the writing for «Shrek the Third» is the best they could do, it's time for DreamWorks to take the series about a gentle green ogre to Saturday - morning TV.

«Megamind» is a dispiriting return to the tired, star - driven, pop - culture - ridden formula that DreamWorks Animation ran into the ground before its best feature in years, this spring's «How to Train Your Dragon.»

The jokes are good and its very entertaining, its a hugely underated film and my favorite made by Dreamworks joint with Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron which the film reminded me of, due to its serious message and hatred for human kind.

This second edition of DreamWorks's Oscar - winning ogre opus may not match the original for, well, originality, but it honors the prime injunction governing sequels: To thine own characters be true.

DreamWorks» sequel has been lavished with everything it takes to make it bigger and arguably better, and it does not disappoint in the awesomeness.

The folks at DreamWorks Animation are obviously counting on the audience bringing good feelings about Po and company into the theater with them, so they've taken the risk of lowering the comedy quotient and emphasizing new characters and plot elements.

Having met Eric Darnell, known for directing Dreamwork's Madagascar films, and seeing him ecstatic about the creation of this Rainbow Crow series, you can't help but feel delighted as well when you put on an Oculus headset and see what they've built thus far.

Is it DreamWorks» best to date?

Comparitively, Home does not stack up to the great films of Pixar or Disney, but I think it's easiest one of Dreamworks» better films in the past couple of years (with the exception of How to Train Your Dragon 2).

Then they had a financial breakthrough with Shrek, and it seems DreamWorks has a formula for success of their own: inject some contemporary language, potty humor and mild innuendo to entertain the kiddies as well as the adults.

Director Mimi Leder made the step up from television for her first big feature (she had directed numerous episodes of ER, starring Clooney and executive produced by Dreamworks's Steven Spielberg) and it received reasonable notices, though I can't really think why (it was nowhere near as good as the other big, dumb action movie of that year, Air Force One).

THE VOICE Jackman voiced characters in two animated films that were both released in November 2006, «Flushed Away» (for DreamWorks and Aardman) and Warner Bros.» «Happy Feet», which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar.

A spokeswoman for DreamWorks Studios says Spielberg will direct Bradley Cooper in an adaptation of the best - selling book American Sniper.

Now that they have a script in the works from Buffy writer Marti Noxon, DreamWorks appears to have finally settled on a director as well.

Ride a magical «DreamWorks Tours» London bus, and enjoy 10 fairy - tale themed shows with a good dose of Donkey's cheekiness, amazing animation and captivating storytelling from DreamWorks Animation's producers of Shrek.

It's a combination that seems ideal for 10 - year - old boys who adore violence, and could well be the cornerstone of the next DreamWorks franchise.

While you can't slight a film because it's not cutting edge, I feel that Dreamworks could have done a better job with the film's look.

I'm hearing (not altogether surprising) rumblings that Robert Downey Jr.'s role in Joe Wright's «The Soloist» is larger than Jamie Foxx's homeless violinist Nathaniel Ayers and that he'll be pushed as a leading actor contender by the good folks at Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG.

Thanks in no small part to Pixar, DreamWorks & Illumination holding down the fort across the pond as well as the utterly charming Aardman Studios on this side of the Atlantic, animation is now no longer a playground just for kids; true, the target audience is still primarily child - like in both age & size but the best and most successful animated features now possess whip - smart humour that's definitely targeted to adults.

With most UK schools not breaking up for the Easter holidays until Thursday, DreamWorks Animation and distribution partner Fox can look forward to at least 17 days of great business for Kung Fu Panda 3, beginning on Good Friday.

Interestingly though, Dreamworks has had very good luck getting their animated sequels in; Shrek 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2 all made the cut.

Best Animated Special Production Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Voyager Pictures LLC Dawn of the Dragon Racers, DreamWorks Animation How Murray Saved Christmas, Universal Television Polariffic, Bent Image Lab Toy Story That Time Forgot, Pixar Animation Studios

Clearly intended for adult viewers, these promos contain good - natured ribs at the expense of DreamWorks, animation clichés, and the movie industry.

THE DVDs Released on DVD a few years back by DreamWorks in an «Awards Edition» now bundled as part of Paramount's «Best Picture: Academy Award Winners Collection,» American Beauty is crying out for a fresh run through the telecine (there's a hair in a couple of frames), its 2.37:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer conspicuously struck back in the nascence of the format.

The pieces fit together well enough for a cohesive single narrative, but the odd shifts of interest lead one to imagine that DreamWorks split their resources into four groups and each were responsible for making an entertaining quarter - film.

In 2006, Flushed Away, Aardman's third feature overall and first in computer animation, got good critical marks but flopped in US theaters (though still outgrossing Were - Rabbit) and led Aardman and partner DreamWorks Animation to part ways.

Dreamworks Animation did the same thing for Shrek who sequels just weren't as good as the original.

While «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» held on to the top spot on the British box office chart for the third straight week, the real champion last weekend was the riotously enjoyable DreamWorks animated...

DreamWorks Pictures has officially detailed the Blu - ray releases of director Steven Speilberg's Lincoln, starring Academy Award - winning Best Actor Daniel Day Lewis and Oscar - nominated actors Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.

Despite Shrek Forever After seeming to put a cap on the ogre's fairy tale - spoofing stories, you knew DreamWorks Animation would one day return to the well for a new film.

• DreamWorks Animation's «How to Train Your Dragon» received the Best Animated Feature award, while Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives» — a runner - up for Best Picture — was named Best Foreign - Language Film.

Contrary to the fact the ambitious animation studio is consistently held to a higher standard than the likes of DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Fox and Warner Bros. (to name a few), such an impressive track record has... Continue reading The Good Dinosaur