DreamWorks Animation has often paid tribute to classic movie genres with varying degrees of success.
Throughout making feature-length animated movies regularly for multiple decades, some recurring hallmarks have emerged for the works of DreamWorks Animation. For one thing, there’s the infamous DreamWorks Face. Many of the studio’s titles have also concluded with a big dance party set to a famous upbeat pop tune, in the vein of Shrek. But something else that’s become common in the studio's output is an affinity for delivering kid-friendly pastiches of famous movie genres.
The same can be said for another high point for DreamWorks Animation genre pastiches, Chicken Run. Produced by the brilliant minds at Aardman, what’s immediately striking about this film’s homages to the past is how much of it can be reflected in the dark moody lighting of its nighttime scenes.
Monsters vs. Aliens, meanwhile, has some fun ideas for characters based on B-movie monsters, like a brainless blob named B.O.B. or the stuck-up Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. . However, the film eventually turns into a standard big-budget blockbuster, complete with tons of explosions, which feels counterintuitive to the kind of endearingly ramshackle films its central characters emerged from. Meanwhile, most of the gags here don’t feel specific enough to the genres of either monster or alien movies.
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