DreamWorks making enough Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How To Train Your Dragon movies to just ride out the decade
The sequel—once the rare continuation of a story so rich and sprawling, it was unable to be told in a mere two hours, or at the very least a welcome, popularly demanded return to a beloved world and cast of characters—is these days pretty much just an obligatory prolonged coda, a note held until its dying reverberation shakes its last dollar out of the moviegoing public. So it’s no surprise that on a day when Pirates Of The Caribbean becomes a tentative hexalogy, DreamWorks just said fuck it and announced two more Madagascar movies, at least two more installments of How To Train Your Dragon, and an unbelievable six total Kung Fu Panda movies to be dragged out over the coming years.