What is the best DreamWorks Animation movie?

By YPB Team

DreamWorks Animation has given us ogres, dragons, kung-fu warriors, and much more across decades of hits and cult classics. Which film is their finest hour?

How to Train Your Dragon

A young Viking befriends a wounded dragon, challenging everything his village believes; praised for its emotional depth and breathtaking flight sequences.

1000pts

Antz

A neurotic worker ant dreams of a life beyond the colony and inadvertently becomes a hero — DreamWorks' sophisticated first animated feature with an all-star voice cast.

785pts

Shrek

An antisocial ogre teams up with a talking donkey to rescue a princess, hilariously subverting fairy-tale conventions; won the first-ever Academy Award for Animated Feature.

687pts

Kung Fu Panda 2

Po faces a peacock warlord who threatens to conquer China while uncovering painful truths about his own origins.

687pts

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

The swashbuckling feline discovers he has used eight of his nine lives and races to find a wishing star — widely acclaimed as DreamWorks' finest film in over a decade.

549pts

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

A wild mustang's quest for freedom across the American frontier is told entirely from the horse's perspective, with no human dialogue and a Bryan Adams soundtrack.

549pts

The Wild Robot

A shipwrecked robot must survive on a wild island and raise an orphaned gosling; earned rapturous reviews and won the Academy Award for Animated Feature in 2025.

439pts

Madagascar

Four Central Park Zoo animals are accidentally shipped to the wild island of Madagascar, forced to fend for themselves in hilarious fashion.

439pts

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Hiccup and Toothless discover a hidden dragon sanctuary while confronting a formidable new threat; winner of the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.

439pts

Megamind

A supervillain accidentally destroys his nemesis, must create a new hero, and discovers a deeper purpose — a witty inversion of the superhero genre.

439pts

The Bad Guys

A gang of notorious criminal animals attempts to go straight — or at least pretend to — in a stylish, Spider-Verse-influenced heist comedy.

439pts

Chicken Run

A courageous hen leads her fellow chickens in a daring Great Escape-style breakout from a Yorkshire farm; a Claymation classic made with Aardman Animations.

274pts

Kung Fu Panda

A bumbling, noodle-loving panda is chosen as the Dragon Warrior and must train in kung fu to face a ruthless leopard villain.

0pts

The Prince of Egypt

A sweeping animated retelling of the biblical story of Moses, featuring hand-drawn grandeur, stunning CGI effects, and a memorable Stephen Schwartz score.

0pts