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Whereas Rex's irreverent book comes loaded with pop-culture references, the adaptation (penned by "Epic" scribes Tom J. From a creative standpoint, this is the studio's least exciting feature yet - hardly its worst, execution-wise, but entirely lacking in the risk-taking spirit that has spawned such successful franchises as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Dragon."Īs if in direct contradiction with its own pro-individuality message, "Home" hews close to formula by defaulting to the studio's favorite lesson: that misfits aren't losers, but merely those who haven't managed to figure out how or where they belong - a by-now-threadbare moral recycled one too many times since DWA's first computer-generated toon, "Antz." As it happens, "Home" was also helmed by Tim Johnson (who co-directed "Antz" with Eric Darnell), who takes a similar approach to Adam Rex's kid-lit novel "The True Meaning of Smekday," in which an oddball alien (voiced by "The Big Bang Theory's" Jim Parsons) befriends a lonely girl, Tip (Rihanna), while the rest of the world freaks out around them. Still smarting from the dual blows of a "How to Train Your Dragon 2" Oscar loss and the closure of its Northern California-based PDI division, the publicly traded DWA desperately needs a hit right now, and "Home" is more of a bunt, one that hardly seems enough to satisfy investors until "Kung Fu Panda 3" opens this time next year.

Unimaginative and downright predictable by grownup standards, but bursting with elements sure to appeal to younger auds - including cutesy character design, quotable alien catchphrases and solid musical/vocal contributions from Latina leads Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez, who add a dose of diversity to the human cast - DWA's lone 2015 feature release should manage to squeak past the $100 million mark during a relatively competition-free spring, while reinforcing the studio's recent standing as the Pepsi of the animation world: It's potable, but a distant second to the real thing. Introduced in the film's opening seconds, when he bumps that little boy with the fishing rod from the DreamWorks Animation logo, over-eager alien invader Oh represents Jeffrey Katzenberg's best hope at harnessing some of his old pal Steven Spielberg's intergalactic buddy-movie mojo. called - he wants his huggable-alien concept back.