Jeffrey Katzenberg

Monsters vs. Aliens: A One-Dimensional Story in Fantastic 3-D

Coming (At You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Very Sinbad

Brad Pitt gets animated in a movie that's not--not really

Horse Opera

A cartoon saddled with Bryan Adams songs has no Spirit at all

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Bite It

Along Came a Spider bugs out

Toy story

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay

Mud pie

Do yourself a favor and stay home during this Road Trip

The men who would be queens

Animated buddy film gets Road hard and put up wet

Theme puke

At Jekyll & Hyde Club, the actors act, the puppets howl, and the food...well, never mind

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

The music man

Lenny Waronker is a rock-biz legend, but is that enough to make DreamWorks Records a success?

Making a mountain out of an anthill

The craftsmen at Pixar delight with the inventive and enchanting A Bug's Life

Screen tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

Cold bore

It's big and loud, but this Peacemaker is still a dud

Arts and craftsmen

After the Beasties and Beck, the Dust Brothers strike out on their own

Ready to scorn

Kansas City is Robert Altman's best movie in years--but does anyone care anymore?

Treasure trove

Toy Story beats the Disney 'classics' with sheer manic invention