5 Best DreamWorks Animated Movies of All Time

As the latest animated movie produced by DreamWorks, Rise of the Guardians has suffered unexpected waterloo in movie market. As the most expected DreamWorks animated movie of this year, Rise of the Guardians is released in the right time right place but without right result. As one of the most well-known movie producers in the world, DreamWorks have presented the world Oscar winning movies like Gladiator and American Beauty. However, DreamWorks is more well-known for excellent animated movies despite the fact that none of them are Oscar winners.

As the main competitor of Pixar Studio and Disneyland in animated movie market, DreamWorks can always bring new surprises to the world with DreamWorks animated movies. However, contrary to Pixar animated movies, not all animated movies of DreamWorks are profitable. In fact, some DreamWorks movies just do quite well in box office and some just do well in reputation. Only a few best DreamWorks animated movies can win in both box office performance and reputations. Therefore, this post will cover 5 best DreamWorks animated movies of all time.

1. Shrek movies

As the most favored animated movie of all time, Shrek series has gained great success in the movie market. In fact, all the four Shrek movies had won profits in box office and good names in reputation. Moreover, as the best DreamWorks animated movies, the four Shrek movies have gathered over 2.9 billion dollars in box office and help DreamWorks to gain over 1.26 billion dollars in profit.   

In Shrek, the monster tries to rescue Princess Fiona out of the prison guarded by the evil dragon. In Shrek 2, the hero tries to find a way to get along with Fiona's father after their marriage. In Shrek The Third, Shrek tries to find the legal heir to the kingdom so that he can spend his days in the wetland while Fiona needs to fight against Prince Charming. In Shrek Forever After, the org needs to find back the true love kiss of Fiona after he is fooled by the evil deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin.

2. Madagascar trilogy

As the best DreamWorks animated movie trilogy, Madagascar movies have gathered over 1.8 billion dollars in box office and helped DreamWorks to gain a profit of over 589 million dollars. Besides the good performance in box office, the DreamWorks Animated movies also win the hearts of audiences with its excellent plots. Audiences are thrilled by the adventure of the four friends, amused by their crazy behaviors and moved by their friendship. In Madagascar, Alex and his friends go through an unexpected journey from the central park to Madagascar; in Escape 2 Africa, the four mates manage a thrilling trip in Africa and in Europe's Most Wanted, the four friends try to go back to the zoo only to find they can't leave their new friends in the circus.    

3. Kung Fu Panda movies

Though there are only two Kung Fu Panda movies available in the market, those DreamWorks animated movies have earned around 1.3 billion dollars in box office. Therefore, both Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2 have been listed as best DreamWorks animated movies of all time. Moreover, those two DreamWorks animated movies have made the fatty, nimble and funny Panda Po a world famous celebrity. In Kung Fu Panda, Po gets the chance to learn Kung Fu from Shifu in accidentally. When the vengeful and treacherous Tai Lung escapes, Po bears the mission to beat the monster. In Kung Fu Panda 2, after Po becomes the new Kung Fu master, he decides to prevent the ambitious Lord Shen only to find his early memory comes back.

4. Puss in Boots

There are many reasons to list Puss in Boots as one of the best DreamWorks animated movies of all time. The excellent performance in box office, the funny plot, the amazing characters and the beautiful background music all lead to the success of this animated movie. The main character of the movie is the puss in Shrek movies while the main plot is totally irrelevant to that of Shrek movies. Puss in Boots mainly tells about the suffering of the puss before he meets Shrek including how he gets the boots and how he becomes an outlaw. In this DreamWorks animated movie, the hero Puss turns out to be a wanted man after his being fooled by his best friends. Later he finds that he needs to rely on this friend to find the legendary golden eggs.

5. How to Train Your Dragon

As one of the most successful 3D movies, How to Train Your Dragon has won over 494 million dollars in box office. Therefore, as an animated movie that brings profits and technological innovation to the company, How To Train Your Dragon worth the name as a best DreamWorks animated movie of all time. In this DreamWorks animated movie, Hiccup is a Viking who tries to catch and kill dragons with his inventions. By accidentally, he shoots a dragon and learns the skills to live in harmony with those creatures. When he wants to teach his village members about it, he is teased and cursed. However, with the efforts of the young boy, the people finally realize the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.

Top 3 Most Profitable Pixar Animated Movies

Without Steve Jobs, Apple may still be a company struggling to survive in the digital market. Jobs not only had changed the digital market with Apple products but also movie filed with Pixar Animation Studio. Though Pixar was sold to Walt Disney Company in 2006, no one would deny the great changes Jobs had brought to Pixar.

As a company focusing on creating animated feature films, Pixar Animation Studio has gained great success in animated movie field in the past two decades. As a low-yield company, Pixar only released a few animated movies in recent years. However, the profits those products had brought was tremendously amazing. It had gained 6.5 billion dollars with just 11 animated movies.

For all those reasons, the animated movies released by Pixar are always among the league of most anticipated movies of the year. Furthermore, another masterpiece of Pixar animated movie, Brave, is about to be released this week. It is said that the movie is attached with brand new animated effects.

Maybe Brave will become a new legend of Pixar animated movie. However, before that happens, Brave must beat a powerful enemy, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So let's expect Brave can surprise us again and perform outstanding in box office. Here this post will show you three most profitable Pixar animated movies.

1. Toy Story 3

As a movie released in 2010, Toy Story 3 had received over 895 million dollars in box office income. As the last member of Toy Story trilogy, the movie tells about the plot of how Woody leads his teammates to get out of day-care centre to find Andy.

The good reputation of its predecessors, the perfect adoption of 3D effects and wonderful plot had all contributed to the success of Toy Story 3. Furthermore, with its outstanding performance, Toy Story 3 had become the most profitable animated movie and a member of top five movies with highest box office revenues.

2. Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo tells about a story of how a clown fish named Marlin manages to find his abducted son Nemo back after going through various adventures. As a funny and relaxing movie, Finding Nemo had gained about 867 million dollars in box office.

Finding Nemo is not that kind of the movie you can easily forget after you have laughed. Interesting as it is, it can also arouse our thoughts on the value of family. It was said that Pixar made this movie to irony the relationship between Jobs and his daughter.

3. Up

In 2009, Pixar Animation Studio had released its first 3D movie Up which helped it to receive over 731 million dollars. The tenth Pixar animated movie mainly illustrates you the life of an old man named Carl including how he gets married with his wife, how he tries to travel to get to South America and how he saves the birds with a boy named Russell.

Actually, we all have our dreams in our childhood just like Carl but few of us can stick to them. Besides those fairy factors like flying house, big birds and thrilling adventures, Up also shows you what real life is. When Carl and Ellie are trying to save money for their dream in a little pot, they are forced to break it again and again.

Those are the best three Pixar animated movies. If you want to watch them with The new iPad, you may just convert the DVDs to mp4 files via DVD Ripper.