The 10 Best DreamWorks Animated Movies From The 2000s (According To Metacritic)

The 10 Best DreamWorks Animated Movies From The 2000s (According To Metacritic)

DreamWorks Animation has produced a number of beloved movies but how did its first full decade of releases fare in the eyes of critics?

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DreamWorks Animation has developed into one of the few companies that can claim to rival Disney’s monopoly on the animated movie game and the company began to establish itself as such during an impressive run of movies released during the 2000s.

With so many great movies from that time period conjuring up so many memories for viewers, there’s no shortage of rankings of the best movies released by the studio in that decade but which are truly considered to be the best? Let’s look at the top 10 highest-rated according to scores accumulated by review aggregate site Metacritic to help paint a clearer picture.

10 Madagascar (2005) – 57

Though critics and audiences weren’t initially sure what to make of DreamWorks’ answer to the Toy Story formula of a secret world existing under the noses of humans in everyday life, Madagascar blossomed into becoming the studio’s defacto flagship franchise next to Shrek.

Following a close-knit group of New York zoo animals who are stranded on the titular island, the movie was one of the first to establish DreamWorks’ penchant for far stranger–and drier–humor than was typical for the medium but still coupled with zany animation.

9 Shrek the Third (2007) – 58

Though still a big hit at the box office, the third Shrek movie would prove substantially less successful with critics and audiences than the first two movies in the series.

A fourth Shrek movie would be released three years later but would fare similarly with critics and audiences, reinforcing the idea that the series was not the studios’ signature franchise, as it had appeared to be in the earlier half of the decade.

8 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) – 61

Elevating the Madagascar series to the forefront of DreamWorks Animations’ image, Escape 2 Africa fared better with critics and audiences at the box office than its predecessor and established the title as one with staying power.

With the animals now finding themselves in an African nature reserve, the sequel developed the main characters and their relationships whilst further establishing the studios’ own unique sense of humor that could bridge the gap between the tastes of small children and their parents.

7 Over the Hedge (2006) – 67

Though never given a sequel, Over the Hedge was a satisfying animal-based hit for the studio that was full of its own exciting sequences and star power in its voice cast.

Bruce Willis voices RJ, a raccoon who must con a group of naive woodland critters into helping him steal a stockpile of food from neighboring suburbia, and the story would perhaps prove to be equally entertaining and forgettable due to its more generic structural elements compared to most other releases from the studio in that decade.

6 Flushed Away (2006) – 74

The third and final movie released through a partnership between British stop motion animation studio Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation, Flushed Away was the least successful movie of the collaboration but is still ranked above most movies that the studio released in that decade.

Following a pampered rat (voiced by Hugh Jackman) that’s flung into a fish-out-of-water adventure in the sewer system beneath London, the movie was a disappointment at the box office in relation to its budget but remains one of Aardman’s most ambitious projects to date and it’s packed with its own unique witticisms and charm.

5 Kung Fu Panda (2008) – 74

Next to Shrek and Madagascar, the most well-known DreamWorks Animation franchise would have to be the Kung Fu Panda series which produced two sequels in the following decade as well as a TV show on Nickelodeon.

The titular panda, voiced by Jack Black, won over the hearts of fans with his enthusiastic spirit and ushered ina new era of successes for the studio that would seriously rival even Pixar’s offerings from the time period.

4 Shrek 2 (2004) – 75

Often called one of the best animated movie sequels ever made, Shrek 2 expanded its satirical fairytale world to great applause from critics and audiences who made it the highest-grossing movie of the year of its release and, at the time, the highest-grossing animated movie ever made.

Bringing back the main cast of voice actors from the original movie and their characters, the sequel introduced a number of other memorable characters including Antonio Banderas’ Puss in Boots, who would receive his own spinoff movie from DreamWorks 5 years later.

3 Shrek (2001) – 84

Lampooning tropes of the fantasy and fairytale genres that were so prevalent in animated movies up to that point, Shrek was the first real success of DreamWorks Animation and presented the studio as a real contender in the field against Disney.

With an immensely catchy soundtrack built around modern pop music, the movie revolutionized the animated movie game and produced a slew of imitators.

2 Chicken Run (2000) – 88

The first stop motion animated feature from Aardman Animations to be released in partnership with DreamWorks Animation, Chicken Run was actually the studios’ biggest success at the box office up to that point despite seeming like one of their more left-field projects.

Incorporating the distinctly British humor of Aardman with a more conventional prison break story involving a group of plucky birds, the movie created a long-lasting fanbase with a belated sequel still developing.

1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) – 87

The second feature to be released by Aardman Animations through their partnership with DreamWorks following the success of Chicken Run, Curse of the Were-Rabbit took Aardman’s titular mascots to the big screen and it became one of DreamWorks Animations biggest hits with critics yet.

Though one of the company’s more modest box office successes, the movie would go on to become DreamWorks’ second movie to win Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, also becoming the second non-American and non-computer-animated movie to do so.

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