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![Video thumbnail — Bee Movie - Official Trailer 2007 [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VONRQMx78YI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Jerry Seinfeld's bee sues the human race over honey. That premise, voiced by Seinfeld himself, cost DreamWorks $150 million in 2007 and got a B+ shrug, then came back nearly a decade later as one of the internet's favorite copypastas: "According to all known laws of aviation...", "ya like jazz?", and the whole film sped up every time somebody says "bee."
Jack Black's Po — a noodle-shop panda accidentally anointed the legendary Dragon Warrior — turned out to be DreamWorks at its best. 'Skadoosh' entered the vocabulary, the Wuxi Finger Hold entered recess, and there is no charge for awesomeness.
Four spoiled zoo animals, one island, and a lemur king ordering everyone to move it, move it. Madagascar arrived on May 27, 2005, as a DreamWorks bet on pure silliness that landed with kids and never quite left.
Nathan Lane and Lee Evans as the Smuntz brothers, inheriting a string factory and a mansion worth a fortune, and losing the war to the one mouse living inside it. Gore Verbinski's first feature was DreamWorks' Christmas 1997 slapstick, with Christopher Walken as the exterminator who fares no better.
Joe Dante's 1998 movie about toys that come alive and go to war: a defense contractor puts a munitions-guidance chip in a line of action figures, and the Commando Elite decide the gentle Gorgonites must be destroyed, along with anyone who gets in the way. Empire's verdict: "It's Gremlins with toy soldiers, except not quite as dark or funny."
DreamWorks' 1998 animated Exodus, with Val Kilmer as Moses, Ralph Fiennes as Rameses, and a parting of the Red Sea that took three years to animate. Its song "When You Believe" won the Oscar and became a Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey duet.