All 6 Franchises Referenced in the New Dreamworks Animation Intro
Clearly Feeling the Effects of Saturn’s Return, as Many Do When Approaching 30, Dreamworks Animation — First Founded Back in 1994 — Has Made the Bold Move of...
Clearly feeling the effects of Saturn’s return, as many do when approaching 30, DreamWorks Animation — first founded back in 1994 — has made the bold move of revamping its iconic intro.
Beginning with the surprisingly outstanding Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the studio’s movies no longer feature the traditional intro starring that boy with the fishing rod chilling on the moon. Instead, DreamWorks’ new logo animation celebrates many of the biggest and most popular franchises the studio has to its name, ranging from those that helped build the company from the ground up to those that have only appeared on our screens in more recent years.
Of course, in an unsurprising development fans were initially up in arms over the change, because woe betide anything that dares to threaten the power of early-00s nostalgia, but folks have become used to this new, slightly Marvel-inspired, intro over time.
For your viewing pleasure, you can find the gussied-up intro above. Just to make a game of it, why not try and name every DreamWorks movie and/or franchise it references before scrolling down to find out the answers? No cheating now!
The Bad Guys
As you can see, the DreamWorks Animation intro now sees the fishing boy surf through space on his, er, moon surfboard. The first familiar characters he encounters are The Bad Guys, the anthropomorphic band of animal criminals from the movie of the same name. After its release in April 2022, The Bad Guys became the year’s second highest-grossing animated film, so we can presumably take their immortalization in this intro as a promise that a sequel is on its way.
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How to Train Your Dragon
Next up, none other than Toothless, the last of the Night Furies, soars past. The adorable flying beastie is, of course, the star of the How to Train Your Dragon saga. Easily one of the most acclaimed franchises in DreamWorks’ library, the Dragon movie trilogy stretched from 2010 to 2019 and also comprises various spinoff series. And, sorry to have to remind you about this, but a Disney-style live-action remake remains in the works, because this is the cursed timeline.
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