DreamWorks Animation Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer

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DreamWorks Animation’s first movie was Antz, released two months before A Bug’s Life, and thus this studio was born into incessant comparison to Pixar’s output, molded by it, becoming the snarky and sarcastic foil to its competitor’s earnestness.

DreamWorks Animation would forge most of its identity and formula on the back of one giant, smelly, green ogre: Shrek, which has generated sequels, tie-ins, theme park rides, and billions of dollars, while ensuring Smash Mouth’s “All-Star” never leaving the pop culture’s ironic curriculum.

The studio’s other franchises include Kung Fu Panda, which introduced a whole new world of visual flair and surprising emotional depth to the DreamWorks movie canon, and Madagascar, which pulled off the mega-rare feat of each movie being higher-rated on the Tomatometer than the last. At least the mainline movies. (Penguins of Madagascar 73% is lower than the 79% Madagascar 3 has, but that’s a spin-off.)

Their releases across 2022 and 2023 comprised Trolls Band Together, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. And then in 2024, they are rolling in Po again with Kung Fu Panda 4, just as The Wild Robot is drawing the studio’s best reviews since the first How to Train Your Dragon! Now, we’re ranking all DreamWorks Animation movies by Tomatometer!