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Mimi Leder's 1997 actioner "The Peacemaker" was the first movie released by the then-nascent DreamWorks Pictures. The studio rushed multiple high profile films into theaters immediately thereafter, dropping Steven Spielberg's Oscar-bait drama "Amistad" and Gore Verbinski's stylish kiddie flick "Mouse Hunt" before the year was out. DreamWorks soon proved to be a formidable player in mainstream animation as well, unveiling "Antz" and "The Prince of Egypt" in the late months of 1998. 2000 was also a good year for its animation department, with DreamWorks releasing both "The Road to El Dorado" and Aardman Animations' "Chicken Run."

Then, in 2001, DreamWorks Animation released "Shrek," a pointedly anti-Disney satire based on the pic

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