Updated April 22, 2022 4.6k votes 1.2k voters 133.4k views
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Vote up the most annoying plot holes.
DreamWorks has been one of the main studios in the world of animation for a while now, known mainly for their fantasy escapades, hard-hitting soundtracks, and numerous pop culture references. However, it (along with many other companies) has started to focus more on sequels instead of original content, leaving it easy prey for plot holes - numerous ones, in some cases.
Below, fans on Reddit have pointed out some of the DreamWorks plot holes that they find most irritating. Vote up the ones you agree with!
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499 VOTES
'Trolls: World Tour' Is Supposed To Be About Respecting Other Music Genres, But EVERY Song In It Is Pop
This is a movie about respecting other music genres, but nearly every song is pop. Techno is really a pop remix of Daft Punk. Hard rock is really a poppy version of a pop/rock song. Country was country pop.
At the end, they put together some Frankenstein's monster pop mix of all the genres - but it was still pop.
It's actually impressive that they managed to overproduce a movie about overproduced music so perfectly. It's like the perfect picture of art dying.
Branch is grey again in Trolls: World Tour when he was turned [back to his true] bright blue color in the end of Trolls - [his color change then is a big deal too, symbolizing his internal change].
In Shrek the Third, Charming is talking to all the villains in the bar, pointing out how they've been cheated out of their "happily ever after." He turns to a small man sitting at a table and says, "And you, frumpy pigskin..." to which the man replies, "Rumpelstiltskin."
The whole plot of the fourth movie is that Shrek makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, but the one in the 4th movie CLEARLY isn't the same as the one in the 3rd.
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376 VOTES
The Croods' Relationship To Bananas Is Inconsistent
In Croods 2, Grug tells us that he once had a banana (presumed to be prior to having children) and it was something he thought about daily and missed. The scene also suggests that the rest of the family were unaware of what bananas were.
However, in the Croods, we see Grug and the family using bananas to help handle the Punch Monkeys. Grug, who supposedly has desired bananas on a daily basis since his childhood, throws it on the ground in disgust. For someone who says they've been craving bananas their whole life, this makes no sense.
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446 VOTES
The Location Of The Secret Panda Village Has Been Debated For Years, But Tigress Can Suddenly Just Find It Without Explanation?
[The second Madagascar movie revolves around the fact that Alex has a birthmark proving he's the son of the lion king's tribe in Africa,] but he clearly doesn't have this birthmark in the first movie.
