Breitbart TV is the home of the hottest video on politics, world events, culture, and media. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces Check out our breaking stories on Hollywoods hottest stars Shrek was DreamWorks Animations first major hit, both commercially and critically, earning the studio the firstever Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002. Out of the 1. 8 feature films Pixar has released in the theaters, 1. Rotten Tomatoes which is impressive, to say the least BROTHER BEAR 3. Disneys Brother Bear is another shining example of a film with a major commercial success that didnt translate into positive criticism. It is the second lowest rated original animated movie the studio has ever made, with a score of 3. Rotten Tomatoes. On paper, everything seemed right with Brother Bear stellar cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, music by Phil Collins, direction by Disney veterans Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker. The movie, however, just didnt land with critics. While nothing in particular was necessarily awful, the film was just not seen as a great one, especially when compared to other Disney classics from the times before it. Along with Dinosaur, Atlantis The Lost Empire, and other releases, the decade of 2. Walt Disney Animation studio. ICE AGE 4 CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3. Even though Foxs Blue Sky Studios enjoyed a mild success with Rio and Rio 2, this small studio revolves almost entirely around the success of the Ice Age franchise, which is responsible for the big box office numbers and mainstream attention Blue Sky has gathered since 2. As more and more Ice Age films kept coming out, 2. Ice Age 4 Continental Drift was released, and it was the clearest sign that the franchise was definitely losing steam and, at this point, merely releasing new installments of this series to keep the Blue Sky Studios competitive in an industry dominated by Disney, Pixar, and Dream. Works Animation. Ice Age 4 Continental Drift scored 3. Rotten Tomatoes, a pretty steep fall from the first installments 7. MARS NEEDS MOMS 3. A partnership between Walt Disney Pictures not the Animation division and Image. Movers Digital, Mars Needs Moms was released in 2. The film, budgeted at 1. Rotten Tomatoes. Mars Needs Moms is about a boy who tries to rescue his mom after she is abducted by Martians who are in need of mother figures to provide data in order to program nanny like robots. Download Dead Leaves Movie Online. The cast features Seth Green, Dan Fogler, and Joan Cusack. This animated movie was the last time Disney partnered with Image. Movers Digital, a studio owned by filmmaker Robert Zemeckis writer and director of the Back To The Future trilogy. CHICKEN LITTLE 3. Chicken Little was Walt Disney Animations first ever full length computer animated feature film a huge leap for the studio, which for a long time kept insisting on hand drawn animations. It was also the first ever Disney movie to be released in theaters in the 3. D format. While Chicken Little enjoyed a modest commercial success performing better than other 2. Disney movies it completely sunk among critics, earning it a score of 3. Rotten Tomatoes and becoming Disneys lowest rated animation ever. Walt Disney Animation was only able to somewhat recover with 2. The Princess and the Frog as the studio went back to its roots and released a new Princess story with hand drawn animation. It was 2. 01. 0s Tangled that would become the first computer animated Disney film to enjoy actual success critically and commercially. SHARK TALE 3. 5While Shark Tale gave us the Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott cover of Rose Royces Car Wash, which became an instant global hit song that sold millions of copies, there is not much else to celebrate about the film. Confident from its success with Shrek and Shrek 2, Dream. Works Animation had huge plans for Shark Tale, but none of them panned out. The movie was seen as too adult oriented for children to enjoy and understand it with adult themes, characters, references. Shark Tale has a score of 3. Rotten Tomatoes, becoming the lowest rated Dream. Works Animation film ever. It also didnt help that the movie came out a year after Pixars Finding Nemo, which enjoyed massive success both commercially and critically, and comparisons, therefore, became inevitable. ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3. The Weinstein Company made a few attempts at entering the animated film landscape, but none of them seemed to work, and Escape From Planet Earth is one of the biggest examples of this ongoing failure from the studio. Made in partnership with the Canadian studio Rainmaker Entertainment, Escape From Planet Earth centers around aliens trying to leave Earth to return to their home planets, a plot pioneered on a mainstream scale by 1. E. T. the Extra Terrestrial and revisited by 2. Lilo Stitch. Unlike those other examples, however, Escape didnt work, which culminated on the films 3. Rotten Tomatoes. Escape From Planet Earths director Cal Brunker went on to work as a storyboard artist for Illumination Entertainment, credited for his work in Despicable Me, Minions, and The Secret Life of Pets. PLANES 2. 5Planes was a spin off of the Cars franchise made by Disney. Toon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures without the direct involvement of Pixar or Walt Disney Animation. Much like Cars, Planes was about a movie about airplanes that had personalities, names, and life in them. Originally developed as a direct to video project, the film found its way to the theaters with a stellar cast that featured Dane Cook, Priyanka Chopra, Julia Louis Dreyfus, and John Cleese.