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REVIEW COLLECTION: DreamWorks Animation Filmography, Part 3 (Second Edition)

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(Source: YouTube )  [The following was originally posted on November 28, 2025 , and December 12, 2025 .]  The Croods  (2013)  When DreamWorks Animation moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox in the early-2010s, it was the dawn of another new era, both figuratively and literally. So, it was fitting that their first feature under this new partnership centered around a nuclear family of primitive Neanderthals, forced to leave their cave—and change their ways—when their world and everything they know is coming to an end.  Said family, known as the Croods, consists of teenage daughter Eep (voiced by Emma Stone), who longs to see the world beyond her family’s cave; concerned and caring matriarch Ugga (Catherine Keener); cheerful son Thunk (Clark Duke), stubborn elder Gran (Gloris Leachman), and animalistic little girl Sandy. All are led by the well-meaning but overprotective patriarch Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage), whose bedtime stories, for one, always end in death...
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REVIEW COLLECTION: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE THREE, Part 1)

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(Source: Logopedia )  Captain America: Civil War (2016)  Getting into their third phase of movies, Marvel Studios followed their redefining work on Captain America: The Winter Soldier with another deconstructed, genre-bending entry: a third solo outing for the “Star Spangled Man.” To be fair, though, Captain America: Civil War is more of an unofficial Avengers movie, considering the number of Marvel characters that show up throughout. Captain America. Iron Man. Black Widow. Falcon. Scarlet Witch. Vision. War Machine. They’re all here, one way or another. (Spoiler alert: Thor and the Incredible Hulk are the two major characters absent. More on that for another time.)  Recent global events and casualties have led government officials (including General-turned-Secretary of State Ross, played by William Hurt) and world leaders to hold the super-powered individuals in check—via a document known as "The Sokovia Accords"—considering said individuals to be a “danger” unless n...
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REVIEW COLLECTION: DreamWorks Animation Filmography, Part 2 (Second Edition)

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(Source: The Closing Logo Group - Fandom )  [The following was originally posted on June 25, 2025 , and September 19, 2025 . It’s a collection of reviews for DreamWorks Animation titles that were distributed theatrically under Paramount Pictures.]  Over the Hedge  (2006)  For their first feature under a new distribution deal with Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation adapted a little-known comic strip about a group of forest animals who wake up from hibernation, only to discover a suburban neighborhood behind a giant, long green hedge where the rest of their forest used to be. Meanwhile, a scheming raccoon coaxes the natural critters into pilfering food and other supplies in one week to pay back an angry, hoarding bear he stole from.  Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick,  Over the Hedge  is one of the studio’s most underrated movies. Besides being charming, entertaining, and (like  Madagascar ) very audience-friendly, the film is a cl...
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