DreamWorks Animation used to have some real ambition as a studio, or, at least, the promise of ambition. If the radically different tones and aesthetics of their first two films (
Antz and
The Prince Of Egypt) suggested a studio that could create a wide variety of animated motion pictures, well, they've been inconsistent in fulfilling that promise over the course of the next two decades. For every
Shrek (only the first two!),
How To Train Your Dragon or Kung Fu Panda that showed real imagination and artistic promise, you also had stuff like
The Road To El Dorado, Bee Movie and
Trolls that had them chasing other popular animated family movies for quick and easy profits. When it comes to creating worthwhile cinema, ya win some, ya lose some in the world of DreamWorks Animation.
