Waitress: Well, there’s shrek, sausage, panda and shrek. That’s not got much shrek in it.
Dreamworks has announced its slate of animation through 2012, and it reminds me of Monty Python’s classic spam bit. Except Shrek substituted for spam would taste even more canned and flavorless.
Comingsoon.net has the list:
- How to Train Your Dragon , a troubled teen adopts a… dragon.
- Shrek Forever After, the fourth installment of the Shrek series.
- Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom
- Puss in Boots, his origin story, before he met Shrek.
- Madagascar 3 the menagerie goes to Europe in a traveling circus.
- The Guardians unites Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman to fight evil-doers.
There’s this though: Oobermind (formerly Master Mind) with Robert Downey Jr. voicing “a supervillain who finds life a little dull after vanquishing good-guy rival Metro Man.” Tina Fey voices another character. Sounds promising, but can’t Dreamworks trust kids to pronounce Übermind?
Looking way ahead, to November 2012, just in time for the festive Mayan End of Days celebrations:
Katzenberg has staked out a third date that fall, Nov. 12, for an original feature, to be chosen from a trio of projects currently in development. The first option, caveman comedy The Croods, from directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, was once intended to be an Aardman collaboration. Another, Truckers, is derived from Terry Pratchett’s The Bromeliad Trilogy with Simon Beaufoy adapting a story of miniature creatures stuck living in a department store. Damaschke also cited a third option, tentatively titled Super Secret Ghost Project, that asks what ghosts think about humans.
Those actually all sound not half bad. Though maybe just because they’re so vague and far away.
12 Responses for "Dreamworks Animation, from now till doomsday"
Okay, the slate sounds less than enthusiastic, but “How to train your dragon” is being directed from the team that made “Lilo and Stitch”. So I hope they can utilize less pop culture material and more sassiness in the film. I remain optimistic about that one.
lol dreamworks is just pathetic, the guardian and oobermind are just copies of the incredibles, the rest are crappy sequels… how to train a dragon is so ‘easy’ that it doesn’t even need to get made
I wish they would make a feature length film focusing on just the penguins, the best part of the two Madagascar films.
…the thing is…does anyone want to risk throwing another penguin movie out there?
…the madagascar penguin movie would at least be better than Happy Feet.
hmm, I liked Happy Feet… surreal singing-and-dancing Antarctic creatures… there must be something wrong with me…
The last thing I want is another Shrek, and even worse – another Madagascar. The ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ book ruled, though, and Kung fu Panda was decent. I really don’t like dreamworks much though…
Oh come one folks. These are after all the people that made Prince of Egypt and Antz!
I personally can’t wait for The Bromeliad (big fan of Terry Pratchett), Madagascar 2 was actually better than the first, one of the best pure-entertainment-times I’ve had in the cinema, so why do you believe the third will be bad? I’m not sure about Kung-Fu Panda 2, but the first one was so earnest in its love for the genre, it was impossible to resist. As for Oobermind, how is this an Incredibles rip-off? I loved The Incredibles, but the story (and I’m pretty sure the tone) will be very different. Plus, Robbie can do no wrong.
Hmmm according to some cults, “scholars” and the Maya calendar, 2012 is either doomsday year or some major shift in the world as we know it…
.. so yes the title for this post is quite accurate!
Not interested in any of those, though The Guardians has me intrigued
T.
Mark your Mayan calendar for December 21, 2012, Tufas. The exact date. That’ll fuck with Oscar season inconveniently. Worse yet, it falls on a Saturday. Bad box-office news for any movie doomed to open that weekend.
The Maya hieroglyphs seem to indicate December 12, 2012 is the day Empress Palin of Alaskastan declares war on the infidels in the lower 48 states.
Hey Ryan, you want to know what’s really shitty about the day the world ends? It’s my Golden Birthday. Boy, does God hate me.
Cheap shot, Mr. Adams.
Although it was funny. But…..you’re wittier than that. I expect a lot more from you good sir.
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