Awesome Dreamworks

Skadoosh! Sure, Kung Fu Panda was formulaic and filled with clichés and fat jokes, but it was still incredibly entertaining. Screen Junkies looks back at the star-studded flick, and how it managed to rise above the rampant mediocrity of other non-Pixar animated movies.

Dreamworks’ latest animated film follows the long, gooey trail of a snail who wishes he could be fast – and whose dream comes true. If Pixar made this movie, it would be called Cars 4: A Snail’s Life.

Antonio Banderas, Zach Galifianakis and Salma Hayek team up together for all kinds of hijinks, and to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs, in Chris Miller’s Puss In Boots. Out 11/2011.

Jack Black and the Awesomeness return in Kung Fu Panda 2; this time, Po and the Furious Five must protect themselves from a villain with secret plans to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Out 05/11.

MegaMind, starring Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill, is a satirical take on superhero movies in which a notorious villain loses his oomph after he accidentally kills his nemesis.

In theaters 3/26/10, Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon is every child (and child at heart’s) dream come true: it features Vikings, misunderstood lizards, and all-you-can-eat sheep.