Link: Mockingbird--"Why Pixar"

http://blog.mbird.com/2011/03/why-pixar.html

Now I admit I enjoyed How to Train Your Dragon. Dreamworks plotting remains fairly pedestrian but they are starting to get a firmer grasp that story depends on character. Sure, it's been taking them a bit more than a decade but better late than never to start rising up to the level of a low-end Pixar movie.