The dream works cycle WERE SO BACK! -> tf was that? -> ok… -> it’s so over -> WERE SO BACK!

Megamind 2 is geniunely one of the worst and most disrespectful movies I have ever seen, it's like Belle's Magical world, but Belle's magical world at least had the OG voice cast, meanwhile this doesn't even have that going for it, the animation looks like it was done in the early 2000's and the little girl is such an annoying self insert

People seriously need to stop viewing DreamWorks as the second coming because of just one really good movie last year. They're no different to Disney and we all know that more than we want to admit it.

It will always be funny to me how dreamworks released puss in boots 2 and people thought they were in a Renaissance.

It’s funny how 2 years ago when The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish many people on the internet were saying DreamWorks was making a comeback after having a string of average animated films like the Trolls films, The Boss Baby films and Spirit: Untamed and using it as an excuse to hate on Disney and Pixar’s then-recent animated films at the time like Turning Red and Strange World. And now, I kid you not, there’s a video released in hindsight of Kung Fu Panda 4’s release discussing how DreamWorks is now “going downhill”. It really sure shows how many narrow-minded people on the internet will just automatically jump to the conclusion that a studio is returning back to its successful heights as in the old years from just 2 frigging films without considering the overall possible critical and financial outcome of the films following after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

Ruby Gillman was more of a Turning Red parody than of The Little Mermaid parody

The difference between Disney and DreamWorks is that people just straight up hate Disney today because they refuse to change, while people have a love hate relationship with DreamWorks because one day they’re making masterpieces the next day they’re making absolute crap.

Dreamworks doesn’t have a problem. They’ve operated on inconsistency since day one. Hell, just look at their first few moves. They started off with Antz, which was a spite project, then The Prince Of Egypt, then Spirit, Then The Road To El Dorado, then Shrek, then Shark Tale (I missed a few but you get the point).

I always wished DW made more epic musicals like "The Prince of Egypt" or fairy tale parodies like "Shrek." As a disappointed Disney fan, I kinda need that RN.

We all know the reason Trolls 3 trended in popularity was because of Velvet and Veneer

If they say they used all their creativity up making Last Wish... I'd accept it, that movie slaps

I don’t think people realize Dreamworks has always been like this. They’ll release ONE amazing film after a string or row of mediocre films. The only time that wasn’t really the case was with How To Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2, and Megamind in the span of 1-2 years. Now, what I will say is that that ONE film they release can be something incredible and can be on par and can even surpass some of Disney’s best stuff. This cycle is indeed a problem tho, as Dreamworks could put all the work and talent into other films besides another Boss Baby or Trolls sequel…

I feel like Dreamworks is THE unreliable studio, the one company you can bank on having a mixed output at any point in time

I thought Mega Mind was gonna have a kid with Roxane and learn about fatherhood, responsibility, and aging. But that was wishful thinking.

It also doesn’t help that Universal not only rushed Kung Fu Panda 4 (with the power of studio meddling and bad main director), but they’re also rushing The Wild Robot 3-5 weeks before their current TAG contract expires, in addition to laying off 40-50% of their employees to force DreamWorks to outsource all their future works. All in an effort to avoid having to pay for Animation Unions. (Oh how petty and greedy) We really thought Universal’s involvement was gonna end at lowering their budgets since 2020 (which was ultimately in their favor in 2022), but it sadly didn’t.

Kung Fu Panda 4 has a deep rabbit hole involving the co-director's concept and it's sad it didn't get accepted because a joke-y plot is better said the director of the film

Well we no longer have to worry about "their" animation problem as they're nuking their in-house animating staff for the most part after The Wild Robot. So now it's being worried about the animation they outsource to xd.

Dreamworks also seems to be pretty bad with marketing lately. Like with Puss In Boots 2, I never even saw a trailer for that. The first time I ever heard of it was when it was already out and people were talking about how good it was.

I think they, much like other studios, needs a leader who can encourage creativity while also keeping things on track. I don't quite want to say they should maintain the status quo (not on the creative end of things anyway), but these studios should have better standards than they do.

so funny to see all the youtubers go from "Dreramworks can do no wrong, step it up animation industry" to this. This is exactly why you don't put your stakes into something after one good thing happens.

It's not that Dreamworks doesn't have great movies (Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run, Curse of the Were Rabbit, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, How to Train your Dragon, Megamind and the Captain Underpants Movie)- its more that they lack any sort of style with their movies, you cant just look at a film and tell its made by Dreamworks - Disney has an easily recognisable style while Dreamworks films look like they could have come from any studio. It doesn't help that almost all of their films post 2010, excluding the Kung Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon films have been pretty terrible.

The Last Wish really did just gaslight everyone into thinking DW was going to make an animation renaissance.

People in 2022 making videos: “Dreamworks is the leading animated studio now. Fuck Disney. Dreamworks is overtaking them.” People in 2024 making videos: “Oh wow we fuck up.” Don’t give me I’m not saying not saying Disney is having problems with both it’s animation studio and Pixar right now. But calling Dreamworks the new leading animated studio or Dreamworks overtaking them is so bizarre especially as someone who witnessed that content back in 2022. I mostly watch and thinking are they really overtaking Disney don’t give me Bad Guys and Puss in boots 2 are great animated movies as well as having new animation style. But still two years later this same studio who claim is overtaking Disney have produce Kung Fu Panda 4 and Megamind 2!

As a long time dreamworks fan I can confirm they produce movies that either hit or miss and although they miss most of the time when they hit they hit hard

inconsistency is their motto, i cant belive that shrek 3 was made by the same guys that did shrek 2

Yeah remember all those “Disney Bad, Dreamworks good” short videos that came after puss n boots 2. I wonder what happened to those?

Dreamworks is experimental in nature, so yeah they may animate different styles. The Wild Robot, an upcoming movie, uses the same style (children's illustration) as Puss In Boots The Last Wish

The new Megamind is made by Dreamworks Animation Television, an entirely different thing from Dreamworks Animation.

Not everything is going to be good as The last wish but Megamind 2 is a disgrace to our society

Cartoonshi said it best: “dreamworks’ best quality is of being inconsistent”

Honestly this is kind of just how dream works always has been. They release great films and okay films whenever they feel like it. It’s just how they operate.

I know that Trolls movies aren't that popular, the first being entertaining but lacking a strong message, and the second having a strong message that had potential but was poorly executed and overshadowed by forced comedy. But I have to admit, I was suprised when I saw Trolls Band Together and thought it was actually good. In this movie they managed to balance both the message, which was much more grounded and relatable, and the comedy. The amount of adult jokes in this movie is HILARIOUS! The villians too, also hilarious! Of course it has its flaws, like its pacing and the need for more development for the new characters (no where near Puss in Boots TLW), but I still think that this was a small high for DreamWorks in this slump. I recommend it to someone who is looking for a comfort movie😄.

What we thought Dreamworks was going to do: Make movies with deep messages like the last wish with funny jokes What Dreamworks did: Make a Bad Unnecessary Kung fu panda movie Make the worst sequel for Megamind 15 years later but it has animtion that was made in 3 hours and finally layoff many animators to save money and became the New Disney

Dreamworks operates differently from Disney/Pixar. Dreamworks never promise for a "A movie hit one after one" and play safely, they take risks in making movies. However, the current state of DW in making movies (Megamind 2 and KFP 4) is very similar to how Disney view sequels as Cash Grab. Which is VERY worrying tbh.

I can't believe I'm saying this. But I miss Jeffrey Katzenberg. Sure, he made mistakes and alot of questionable decisions, but Dreamworks' quality control was much better when he was the CEO of the company.

This is why in 2022, when everybody was shting on Disney and saying Dreamworks was going back to its golden era because of The Last Wish, I wasn't buying it. Just cause one Dreamworks movie turned out great, doesn't mean it was gonna be the trend and a year and a half later, I was right. The Last Wish was a fluke.

Hopefully this is not the end and dream Works Comes back with another good one.😌

not taking the trolls band together slander

WERE BACK! It's over! WE'RE SO BACK! ITS SO OVER!

And this is why I don't side with any studios at all, especially DreamWorks. Because no doubt they've been making some lackluster products at this time. They've made the mediocre Teenage Kraken, the even more mediocre Trolls Band Together, the atrocious Megamind 2, and the massively disappointing Kung Fu Panda 4. But they can still do good if they used their resources properly, like with the decent Orion And The Dark, and the already fantastic looking Wild Robot

And that's why DreamWorks Animation (Their Movie Branch) could have done Megamind 2 (A much Better one than whatever the fudge that cheap trippy sequel was) and Also better marketing and a delay for Ruby Gilman

This video came out right after I heard about massive Dreamworks layoffs. Not just a ton of employees lost their jobs, but they didn't get severance packages. It’s really sad to see. IMO It’s usually the heads in control that cause these issues, and the ppl who are cut off are just in response to their own string of failures. DW is too inconsistent. I hope for some improvement cus they’re totally capable of doing amazing things

DreamWorks is best described as two studios: One who produces masterpiece after masterpiece, putting perfection in their craft, and then the one that vomits on a Docs file and sends it out.

I have an idea for a video about “once in a blue moon” animated films that each animation studios had

Lol the switch up is crazy. People were glazing DreamWorks because of Puss in Boots, but now DreamWorks has a problem. It's funny ngl.

the hype train for the DreamWorks movies for the last two years was CRAZY everyone was saying that Disney and Pixar never released anything good in the last 5 years so they just forgot Soul existed? one of my favorites from Pixar and the fucking shows?😂 everybody focuses on the movies when DreamWorks literally make the most mid shows ever meanwhile Disney has The Owl House, Amphibia, Molly McGee, Duck Tales etc

Megamind 2 is like Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2. It had the same writers, but said writers had absolutely no idea how to continue it, so they had to throw something else into Flint’s backstory so they could continue it. It had the same, generic “evil vs. hero!1!1!” plot. The only thing different is that Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 had the same voice actors and animation, while Megamind 2 has lost a majority of its voice actors and a much lower quality animation team.

Dreamworks is a very overrated studio, and it does have great movies like Kung Fu Panda 2, Megamind, Sherk, but what people forget is that those movies are already more than 10 years old, whereas the entire last decade was almost pure mid movies. With some exceptions, let's be honest, people only sided with Dreamworks because they were angry with Disney, and yet I dare to say that in all its years Disney has not released a movie as bad as Megamind 2.

The worst part of Kung Fu panda 4 is that it wasn't Dreamworks' fault as well.

It's never been surprising. DreamWorks has always been hit or miss since the start. Their quality has always been a mixed bag where sometimes it's fantastic and other times it's crap.

So I'm not the only one who has problems with animation studios that aren't under the Disney umbrella LOL

Watch out for "The Wild Robot." The tables could turn

I wouldn’t be surprised if people soon start saying that Disney is better than Dreamworks, if they put out another banger soon that is.

What you need to understand is that dreamworks makes billions from merch of these IPs. They only care about selling merchandise. That’s where the money is . Even if the box office does badly as long as they can milk tf out of it . Think about the movies as advertisements to sell toys , blankets, cups ETC. They dint care if kung fu panda was a good movie because they will make over a billion from Kung fu panda merch this year

You know I kinda wish the themes or message of Kung Fu Panda 4 was redemption or forgiveness because of the returning villains and cut scenes I thought it'll work but that's just idea I would think about the movie

Don’t forget the layoffs that is happening

Yeah, suddenly the shoe's on the other foot for this animation studio.

"Alright, lets make a movie franchise about how you can do anything despite what people think, and how you look." "awesome! Now lets make the fourth villain entirely undermine that message, and make kids think they cant do things because of their physical appearance" "You genius bastard" -Two Dreamworks executives

megamind in the 2nd move looks like he was made in sims 4

This happens all the time. It was the same with Marvel and DC post hiring ln James Gunn. Before any of his projects were under way, fans got super excited due to Suicide Squads excellence and began championing him, only for the final slog of DCEU projects to hit with terrible and mediocre reception. Meanwhile, Marvel put out a slate of trash and mid films but were "redeemed" by Gunns final entry with the Guardians. Its just a situation of people over exaggerating the power some artists haad during the pandemic.

I already had my fears when I heard Kung Fu Panda was getting a fourth movie and Megamind was getting a sequel. I was hoping my fears were just me being paranoid, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. Kung Fu Panda 4 was basically another Toy Story 4 incident. The movie wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t good, it was just mid and overall unnecessary. That’s the biggest problem with film companies today. Continuing medium that doesn’t need to be continued and breaking trilogies that should’ve just stayed trilogies in the first place. And Megamind 2 was obviously just a streaming service cashing in on a very popular past medium in hopes to make a quick buck! The absolute shallowness a great company like DreamWorks can have sometimes is heartbreaking. They know they can make masterpieces they just choose to take the safe route sometimes.

That thumbnail was crazy for me to see lol. The masterpiece that is The Last Wish, surrounded by movies that were received a lot less well. Trolls 3 was fun imo though

I still believe in DreamWorks, I am sure that The Wild Robot will cover up for my beliefs

This is exactly why I kept saying that we shouldn't get excited just because Dreamwork released 1 good movie. Yes, it was really good, but people were talking as if the company were about to only produce movies with the same quality. I kinda expected this to happen, so I can't even be disappointed.

the problem isn't about the movies, it's about the quality of them.

Did anyone know that the bad guys was a book

I loved Ruby Gillman, I am completely aware it is a technically lackluster film in a general sense. but given how generally poor received it was, one thing that was overlooked was the scene compositions, they did exceedingly well with the visuals, balancing dynamics and feeling with the different camera angles and such. Scenes meant to convey size really knocked it out of the park, while the atmosphere around each storybeat felt perfectly in place.

"Only focusing on theatrical releases" .... Proceeds to moan about megamind 2

I know this is just my opinion but I really enjoyed Trolls 3 out of their recent releases after the Last Wish. It's fun, vibrant, and was able to tell a solid message about family while balancing it out with comedy and music. Yes, I don't think it's more deep or personal as the Last Wish, but I don't think it's a mediocre movie.

We have the wild robot coming soon

To me Ruby Gillman did had the potential to actually be a good movie in terms of story like say make Ruby and Chelsea actually good friends but Chelsea was over pressured by her mother as the queen to get the staff that she wanted to be genuine friends with Ruby but stuck in a toxic relationship with her mother..however what made it is on what it is about is there lack of marketing budget that Universal spent so much on Super Mario Bros and Oppenheimer with there marketing budgets that DreamWorks gets the short end of the stick for Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken

We live in a world where Lord Shen isn't the most dangerous peacock to DreamWorks

I just can’t fandom how badly they ruined MegaMind, it still makes me wanna cry to this day.🥺🤧

I have some fears for dreamworks, to think that the wild robot will be the last movie produced by the studios itself...

Honestly, as much as I really enjoy sequels to some great films. Studios really need to know when to say where the end is. I mean the only real reason to make a continuation, is because there is more to the story to tell. I mean HTTYD is a great example, the first movie is about training a dragon, and making peace with them, the second movie is about someone using them as war machines, and is a continuation of Hiccup's arc, and the third movie is about someone who is essentially the opposite of Hiccup in philosophy, and completes Hiccup's arc and shows the contrast from star to finish for the series.

mfs will think this studio is making a comeback after one good movie

Weird it’s like Dreamworks only makes good movies that are released on November only.🤔

Honestly I wished excepting kung fu panda 4 to be as good or better than first 3 kung fu panda movie and way it took 8 years to make it would have been worthwhile and anticipating wished would have been as great as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish whom sequel that surpassed original puss in boots movie something the fourth movie could follow the same path then again studios that made got too carried away with success of previous movies they tended to next installment just for moneys rather than art storytelling and entertainment value or had time or efforts to make worthwhile movie or sequel to justify it existence

People need to stop idolizing these animation companies. They aren’t run by artists, they are run by businessmen who only care about profit.

I honestly enjoyed Trolls 3 a lot more than the other two movies because it focused more on my favorite character, Branch, but opinion handled

I’d say they need to go in a reorganization effort that Sony Pictures Animation went through shortly before The Emoji Movie was released, where the studios output starting with ITSV became at least decent throughout. Dreamworks is starting to go into a two - three film per calendar year output again and that’s going to do more harm than good in the long run.

Trolls 3 was great, I don’t know what you’re talking about

After puss in Boots to The last wish everything became lame Ruby Gilman teenage kraken was promising to be the next shrek in making fun of Disney and their mistakes but it ended up as a copy of turning red and Luca then I have to skip trolls 3 band together I made a choice to get boring with wish instead of watching something childish and mediocre then we have orion and the dark it was a solid film but it was a better experience in theaters are weight for a sequel to Megamind ended up as a waste and Kung Fu Panda 4 wasn't as awsome as we expected hopefully we got our rise again with the wild robot

dreamworks on their way to completely fumble immediately after almost completely killing disney:

Peacock stole Megamind and tried to make Dreamworks worse😅

Trolls 3 is my absolute favorite movie that's come out in the last 5 years. I've watched it no less than 12 times since January. Please watch it. Give it a chance.

You hammer on a point here that a lot of reviewers are saying. The big studios, the mainstream reviewers, producers, advertisers are sooo out of touch with the modern audience that they don't know how to tell which movies audiences actually would like to see or how to market them. For both Disney and Dreamworks half of their most popular movie tanked at the box office through mismanagement and poor advertising, making back the failure later through demand for merch and and online views. And the movies that have been well advertised were so terrible they only did well in the first week and immediately crumbled!

It's crazy to think about how people we're hyping up dreamworks after puss in boots 2 released

Yes FINALLY someone made a vidéo that say that Dreamworks have actually problems

Mike Mitchell: Hello? This is your King. Stephanie Stine: (GASPS) Mike Mitchell: Oh Stephanie, thank goodness! Do you see what they've done to me? Stephanie Stine: Hmm, Well you do love mirrors. Mike Mitchell: That is not funny. Get me out of here at once. Stephanie Stine: No. Mike Mitchell: What? After everything for you, for Dreamworks? THIS IS THE THANKS I GET?! Stephanie Stine: This is the thanks you deserve. Hang it on the wall, in the dungeon. Mike Mitchell: Please, no! The dungeon smells really bad!

To be honest, Trolls 3 is overhated- but everything else you said was true.

They're putting out mediocre work. That's the problem. I remember when they use to give us Madagascar 😊

Dreamworks is so infuriatingly inconsistent.

Panda 4 isn’t okay…it’s bad

We ain't in the DreamWorks Renaissance like some were saying after PnBtLW?

I love Dreamworks and i don’t see a problem they’ve always been inconsistent especially with 4th sequels which is hard

DreamWorks is a studio that sadly became a victim of its own success

Good thing Will Ferrell didn't voice act, that would've been a career ender

it's like after puss in boots the last wish, dreamworks stopped trying

Bad Guys doesn't get enough love. Obviously The Last Wish was Magnum Opus tier but I'd still be watching Bad Guys if it didn't vanish off Netflix.