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Dreamworks: Holiday Classics

Dreamworks: Holiday Classics

Animation · Family · Comedy · 2012

Join your favourite DreamWorks friends for these four holiday specials. Watch as those zany zoosters from Madagascar save Christmas, Donkey puts on a carolling Christmas Shrek-tacular, and Po prepares for his favourite holiday, the Winter Feast.

Movie details

Dreamworks: Holiday Classics

2012 Animation · Family · Comedy 1h 25m

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7.7 / 10

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Join your favourite DreamWorks friends for these four holiday specials. Watch as those zany zoosters from Madagascar save Christmas, Donkey puts on a carolling Christmas Shrek-tacular, and Po prepares for his favourite holiday, the Winter Feast.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Tim Johnson · David Soren · Gary Trousdale

Mike Myers

Mike Myers

Shrek (voice)

Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Donkey (voice)

Jack Black

Jack Black

Po (voice)

Jay Baruchel

Jay Baruchel

Hiccup (voice)

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner

Santa (voice)

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Fiona (voice)

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas

Puss in Boots (voice)

Court is in session

Put Dreamworks: Holiday Classics on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.