Every Dreamworks Animation Movie Ranked
18. Over the Hedge (2006)
Budget: $80million
Worldwide Box Office: $336million
Starring: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney, Eugene Levy, Avril Lavigne, Omid Djalili
Over the Hedge never delved as deep into theories on the worldwide population crisis, feeding the hungry and solving world peace like its source material did, and the finished product suffered a little from its less deep and meaningful subject matters of suburban monstrosities such as the SUV. However, it did manage to grab a great deal of investment in its characters – voiced by the likes of Bruce Willis, Steve Carell and Nick Nolte – and thus was able to amp up its impressive action sequences, placing it very close to the middle of this list.
17. The Croods (2013)
Budget: $135million
Worldwide Box Office: $587.2million
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman
The Croods is one of the most beautiful of Dreamworks’ animated movies and that works to prop up an otherwise run-of-the-mill outing from the studio. Choosing to animate human characters as opposed to animals, mythical creatures, monsters or aliens, didn’t help this movie stand out from the rest of the pack, but that doesn’t mean that it should be overlooked as the sweet (and financially successful) outing that it was.
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16. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Budget: $145million
Worldwide Box Office: $275.7million
Starring: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Ariel Winter, Allison Janney, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann
Dreamworks were so determined to make their version of the Mr. Peabody & Sherman property successful that they threw the same amount of money at it as they gave to Shrek 2 and Kung Fu Panda 3, both of which were made with the profits from their predecessors.
There remains, however, no doubt that this film has one heck of a heart and is one of the better recent releases from the financially tumultuous company, with the central story being entirely worthy of investment but many of the side-elements being a little too mushy to push this film into our red-hot top fifteen.
15. Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Budget: $145million
Worldwide Box Office: $521.2million
Starring: Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, JK Simmons, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, Kate Hudson
“Kung Fu Panda 3 might actually be the best of the series” read many a review of the franchise’s third instalment, proving that sequels needn’t be devoid of quality.
In this film, every voice is given noteworthy moments and every scene is as beautiful as the movie’s predecessors. In fact, the only reason this picture ranks lower than its predecessors is because of the historical importance of 1 & 2 (of which there is more to come…)
Whilst I think The Road to El Dorado and Spirit should have been ranked higher (because those films are genius) I’m so glad The Prince of Egypt was ranked as number one! :)
Yeah man! Road to Eldorado deserves better than 28th!@
So under appreciated… 😞
Surely the cult status shoukd have boosted its ranking. Prince of Egypt does deserve top place tho
Definitely, Prince of Egypt has it all. And I’d agree, I always see posts and references to El Dorado online, particularly Tumblr :)
El Dorado is popular on Tumblr and with people our ages because we were conditioned to like it as kids (because of cheap VHS/DVD releases following how massively it bombed at the box office). The reality is that it wasn’t nearly as good as our nostalgia leads us to believe and it remains the only film in the studio’s history that LOST money.
Not to disrespect all the classics on here, but Dreamworls hasn’t half produced a load of shite
I actually disagree. I think a lot of these movies were fun. Apart from a few of the movies at the very bottom of the list, everything here is at least entertaining which is more than can be said for 9/10s of live-action films.
Jesus, i forgot Dustin Hoffman was in Kung-fu Panda 😂
I never even realised that Antz was the first feature length film. does this mean I’m older than Dreamworks??
Yeah it does! How crazy is that?! It’s a company that has lived fast and lived well, it would seem. Thanks for commenting!
Turbo needs to be higher. Malarkey