Puzzling it out with Dreamworks
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 3:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Aardman, Chicken Run, Dreamworks, How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Wallace & Gromit, animated films, swag

by Nathaniel R

During quarantine my roommate and I spent hours doing this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle from Dreamworks. Part of some swag box for their anniversary I believe...

It proved exceptionally hard to do since a) some of the characters were microscopic b) a lot of the animation styles and color palettes are very uniform from film to film and c) some of the characters are downright hideous and thus hard to look at for lengthy periods of time -- *cough*  entire Shrek franchise. It occurred to us while doing it that we dont have a ton of affection for the company's output. Well, apart from deep devotion to Wallace and Gromit though we give the credit to Aardman Animations fully. Nevertheless let's do a list.

Best Dreamworks Animated Releases


 

  1. Chicken Run (2000)
  2. Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
  3. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
    (top three are classics!)
  4. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
  5. The Boss Baby (2017)
  6. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
  7. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
  8. Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
  9. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
  10. Abominable (2019)

 

Do you share our semi-indifference? Or are you secretly harboring Shrek or Bee Movie or Madagascar fandom? 

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