Dreamworks Best Children’s Films
Despite having competitors as big and strong as Disney or Pixar, Dreamworks Studios also has a series of children’s movies that were successful in their release.
Focusing on animated films, many of them became great classics for children. In addition, Dreamworks was the first animated film studio to win an Oscar for best animated film.
Can you guess which movie was awarded? Want to discover and discover children’s movies that you’ve seen with your kids hundreds of times and didn’t know belong to Dreamworks? Keep reading and we’ll tell you about them all!
Dreamworks Children’s Films
Shrek and Shrek 2
One of the classics within the world of children’s movies is undoubtedly Shrek . Breaking with all the stereotypes of a traditional story, its success is due to many perfectly connected points.
First of all, this is a film aimed at both adults and children, as both audiences will enjoy and enjoy it equally.
Secondly, and as we’ve mentioned before, this is a film that in its year of release, 18 years ago, was a great innovation in its plot.
It’s a story that takes place in a castle, where everything seems typical of a fairy tale and princesses. However, in this tale, nothing is as it seems, and it is the green ogre who saves the princess from the prince.
From then on, fun conversations and the humanization of all characters with daily problems will be the elements responsible for engaging the audience.
Such was the success of the film that, in 2002, it won the Oscar for best animated film. Furthermore, three more movies were released with the funniest ogre on the big screen as the protagonist.
How to Train Your Dragon
Dragons are one of the characters, both literary and cinematographic, most loved by children, mainly because of the fascination that these beings produce in them. For that reason, this movie, released in 2010, is another big hit within Dreamworks’ children’s films.
Despite being a children’s film, as it is recommended for ages six and over, and thus it is a film with a predictable story for older people, it will nevertheless engage the little ones throughout its duration.
Like most children’s movies, How to Train Your Dragon also has an important message among its adventures by referring to an aspect that is so important today, which is to always be yourself and not wanting to be like everyone else.
Again, Dreamworks knew how to take advantage of the success of the first part of the dragons film, launching, in 2014, the second part and, in 2019, the third.
More Dreamworks Children’s Movies
the escape of the chickens
A year before Shrek made his leap to the big screen, Dreamworks decided to release The Chicken Escape. Despite having been shown for the first time 19 years ago, it remains the stop-motion- created film that achieved the highest grossing of all time.
The plot of the story centers on a chicken coop in which some chickens come up with a plan to escape after they find out what will happen to them. A story whose objective is to amuse the whole family and also show the conditions in which animals can sometimes live.
Kung Fu Panda
Without a doubt children love children’s movies starring animals and that’s why Kung Fu Panda was such a hit.
Since its inception, this film has always wanted to show itself as a comedy, starring a series of animals, especially a panda, who worship the Furious Five, the most powerful warriors in kung fu, who are nothing less than that more animals.
Not only for its characters, Kung Fu Panda is one of the animation films that stands out more within the children’s scope, also for its graphic design and the strong colors used in all its scenes. Again, Dreamworks released in 2011 and 2016, respectively, the second and third parts of the saga.
