Mr. Peabody & Sherman Review - DreamWorks Animation is Back!

After a disappointing 2013, with middling efforts like The Croods and Turbo, DreamWorks Animation is starting this year on a high note, with their newest film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman! Based on the popular 1960s cartoons, the film takes the unlikely pairing of the smartest dog in the world and his adopted human son and brings them to the XXI century in grand fashion. After The Lego Movie kicked the year off with a bang, it's reassuring to see that Mr. Peabody & Sherman is continuing this trend of excellence in what appears to be a superb year for animation.

Exclusive: Full Spreads from Titan Books' The Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman

The Art of Mr Peabody & Sherman is out now from Titan Books. © 2014 DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.

As we announced moments ago, we're giving away a free copy of Titan Books' new DreamWorks Art of book, The Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman, and we've got an exclusive gallery of some great spreads from the book to share with you! Whet your appetite below.

Watch: New Full Trailer for Mr. Peabody & Sherman Pays Homage to Doctor Who

Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary special aired tonight (it was bloody marvellous, wasn't it?), and DreamWorks have capitalised on the longest running sci-fi series' immense popularity to front the first full trailer for their upcoming time-travel flick, Mr. Peabody & Sherman! Check it out below.

Watch: Disarming First Trailer for Mr. Peabody & Sherman

DreamWorks are slowly amping up advertising for their first film of next year, the time-travelling comedy Mr. Peabody & Sherman. After rolling out our first official stills from the film last week, the Shrek shack has now released the first trailer - and it looks like a lot of fun!

First Look: Stills from DreamWorks' Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014 looks to be a really exciting year for DreamWorks. Their hotly anticipated How to Train Your Dragon sequel hits in June, and the Jim Parsons/Rihanna-starring Home is released in November, but their first film of the year is the quirky, and oh-so quintessentially cartoony, Mr. Peabody & Sherman. And via USA Today, we now have our first proper look at stills from that film!

Teaser Poster for DreamWorks' Mr. Peabody & Sherman

While DreamWorks' latest is getting a bit battered at the box office, the studio (now under the 20th Century Fox banner for distribution) sets its sights forward to next year, with a cool new teaser poster for their first film of 2014, Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

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DreamWorks Preview Their 2013 Movies

DreamWorks, fresh off a critical hit, if not a commercial one (yet), with Rise of the Guardians, are looking forward to 2013, where - under their new distribution deal with Fox - they will release three films. Towards the end of last week, some post surfaced about said films, which have been previewed for press at the Fox campus.

First Look At DreamWorks' Mr. Peabody and Sherman

With Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted due for release on 8th June (US release; 19th October here in the UK) and Rise of the Guardians due late November, DreamWorks Animation are setting their sights further forward to begin promoting their huge slab of upcoming films. So, today, Collider gives us our first look (above) and synopsis from their 2014 release (or one of them) Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

The image is pretty much what you'd expect, but it looks pretty good - nice visual style. The official synopsis for the film reads:

Based on Jay Ward’s classic cartoon, Mr. Peabody is the world’s smartest person who happens to be a dog. When his “pet” boy Sherman uses their time traveling WABAC machine without permission, events in history spiral out of control. It’s up to this most unexpected of “father-son” teams to somehow put things back on track before the space-time continuum is irreparably destroyed.

Sounds like the kind of huge romp that we've come to expect from DreamWorks - and the kind that they've recently handled very well. There's a great team behind Mr. Peabody and Sherman as well, it's being directed by Lion King helmer Rob Minkoff, with Ty Burrell (Phil in Modern Family) voicing Mr. Peabody and Max Charles (Young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spiderman) voicing Sherman.

Between this, The Croods, the expected Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon sequels, and further away projects like Turbo, Monkeys of Mumbai and, one of my personal most anticipated films, their adaptation of Captain Underpants, DreamWorks have a solid upcoming slate, and I look forward to hearing more about this.

Mr. Peabody and Sherman is currently scheduled for a 14th March, 2014 release.

Via Slashfilm.