DreamWorks Animation bringing a sequel to How To Train Your Dragon is one thing, but tainting one of their best movies by creating an animated series is simply pandering to kids and profits from selling more toys, advertising and more. That’s not stopping the studio from moving forward with it though as Deadline reports an animated series, based on the hit film from earlier this year, has been set up at Cartoon Network for release in 2012. It’s unclear whether any of the film’s cast will voice the series in addition to the films, but I doubt that will happen. The series follows in the footsteps DreamWorks Animation’s exploitation of their more popular properties with garbage like The Penguins of Madagascar series and awful holiday specials from Shrek and a forthcoming 3D Christmas special featuring Kung Fu Panda.
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Hold up a minute. How to Train your Dragon as animated series is likely to be a disaster. But have you even seen an episode of the Penguins of Madagascar series? Because it’s awesome. It’s well written, funny and the animation is actually up to par and furthermore, honestly the Penguins were the best thing about those movies. The first one being above average, with the second one being an absolute train wreck.
I agree with Binaltechnician about the Penguins series. The Dragon series…who knows? I just wonder if they’ll be brave enough to keep Hiccup’s prosthetic foot.
I found How to Train Your Dragon to be entertaining and engaging, but it’s hardly a sacred cow. I don’t see how creating an animated series based on it “taints” anything. The film itself was designed to make money for it’s production studio, and nothing at all is lost if more entertainment can be gleaned from a series. A series might be good, or it might be absolute dreck; the point is, you don’t know. It’s not like ANY of Dreamworks animated films have been cultural monuments; they’re trying desperately to be the Warner Bros. to Pixar’s Disney. And Penguins of Madagascar is a FINE animated series, funny and inventive. Why shouldn’t they try to expand their properties?
As a side note, I thought the film How to Train Your Dragon had one of the wisest bits of advice re:child rearing that I’ve ever heard: “You can’t stop your children, you can only make sure they’re prepared.” I hope they DO keep Hiccup’s prosthetic foot. It’s a wonderful demonstation that actions have consequences, and that doing what’s right often comes with a cost.
I agree with all of the above except the whole WB vs. Disney thing.The person who wrote this must not like Dreamworks for some strange reason. But dude Penguins is one of the best Cartoons on Nickelodeon right now.
woah woah woah… hold up a minute. Aren’t you being a little harsh here? Sure, we know that Dreamworks has a tendancy to be a bit lazy when making shows and sequals, but “tainting one of their best movies” seems to be jumping to conclusions. From what I’ve heard, Dreamworks is trying really hard to make this *not lame* and taking their time on it. All you seem to be doing is bashing on it with highly opinionated comments. Seriously, did you have to say “Garbage?”
Obvious bais opinon is obvious.
I have just seen “The Gift Of The Nightfury” and I must say it was nothing short of glorious.
It really kept the awsomeness of the first film intact, and futhermore it was quite orginal, it even made fun of its own awful version of chrismes “snoggletalk, why we chose such a rediculous name remains a mystory” Excuse english, i am much better at speaking it then writting it.
But anyway i hope they keep this qaulity consistent.