Everyone knows that films like Toy Story 3 and The Incredibles 2 were made as much for the generation who grew up with the originals as for kids today. Though often light-hearted, animated movies are still a serious business. It is notable when animated movies made by different studios release suspiciously similar movies at very similar times. It leads to questions of who got in first? Who wore it better? It would be very easy to tote out a list of B-movies that are blatant ripoffs of more famous ones.
Instead, we are interested in similarities between movies you might have actually seen. Your mileage may vary on some of these entries as, objectively, what you consider a better animated movie is down to personal taste and what you look for in a story.
When looked at through a lens of nostalgia, it is difficult to be objective. Antz was made faster and so skimped on animation quality but had plenty of gags and a cast of famous actors to paint over inadequacies with star power. During production, there was a public feud between DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and John Lasseter of Pixar over the controversial parallels.
It had moderate success but those who did see it applauded it for the sensitive portrayal of the subject, beautiful animation, and exceptional soundtrack. Of course, there is no harm in enjoying two Day of the Dead inspired animations, but it would be unfair to forget about The Book of Life just because Disney steamrolls across the same ground.
When DreamWorks release Over the Hedge in , it did not exactly change the way we see animated movies. However, it at least gave audiences a raucous comedy about a con-artist racoon, an energetic squirrel, and their furry friends finding out that suburbia is encroaching on their woodland lives.
Roll forward to and another film about a squirrel planning a heist of his human neighbours comes to the big screen. The Nut Job spent less time on characters and plot, and more time on bad puns about nuts. The Nut Job was received negatively by viewers. Of course, DreamWorks did not have exclusive rights to squirrel-related heists, but if you are going to re-tread such a similar story, at least make it funny. It was noticeable when fish-focused animated movies Finding Nemo and Shark Tale came out consecutively in and Comments were made on the similarity in theme and in interviews at the time DreamWorks Animation's CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, said: "any similarities are mere coincidence.
We've been open with the Pixar people so we don't step on each other's toes. Granted, the plotlines of both films are very different. Console or PC? PlayStation or Xbox? It's not enough to enjoy your hobby. You also have to ensure that everyone else knows that the specific parts of that hobby that you enjoy are the best ones. We don't make the rules; we just document them. Both groups have created good -- and bad -- projects. But adherents to both of these massive corporations make their allegiance known through unending battles in comment sections and forums.
Their weapons are the time-honored bullets and bombshells of the online world: image macros and memes. We've collected some of the shots the internet has fired in the ongoing conflict between their favorite studios. One of the recurring themes in the battle of these two companies for the hearts and minds of cartoon fans is the odd similarities between a lot of their films. The two have little in common other than being computer-generated, having main characters who are fish, and taking place in the ocean.
One was a critical and commercial success, while the other was Shark Tale. We think the homework-copying metaphor is really effective here because no teacher would believe that these were the same assignment.
This Venn diagram represents the single most convincing argument Dreamworks fans can use against their Disney and Pixar-loving counterparts. And no single element better represents the drop of quality in those films than their inclusion of comedian Larry the Cable Guy. In your faces, losers! Why do Disney always release their own movies the same year as their rival studio's own version of Disney films?
Remember Toy Story? The world's very first CGI movie about toys are alive when humans aren't looking? Well Small Soldiers decided to break the rules of being a toy,. Obviously both trailers have this tune.
That movie has a beautiful romance of two robots. But with Bee Movie Bees sues us humans for "stealing" honey? We all know Cars is my favorite Pixar movie, but do we have a DreamWorks answer to that? To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In.
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