Violet, critical towards DW... Whoopee!
But Dreamworks and fairy tales? Hardly believable and utterly lacking integrity after the Shrek films... DW is so busy making sure their films lack true magic and makebelieve, they would (and should, I feel) fail miserably at attempting a flirt with the fairytale genre.
I think you hit the mark on 'epic', though. Somehow DW is extremely afraid of going anywhere near that word. To me, however, it's exactly that epic nature (of various proportions) that make Pixar films so irresistible. In Pixar films, things that happen seem to matter, and nothing is achieved without great adversity. Events and other characters actually matter to the characters, and through great storytelling and animation, they get to matter to the audience.
In Shark Tale, who actually cared about the fish (I don't even know his name)? That may have been the most epical film Dreamworks to date (with Spirit and Antz up there too), but honestly... did anyone seeing that film involve themselves in the characters?
Personally (going back to Tusker here) I think I could really go for an epic tale about elephants, these amazing large animals with great family ties that travel long distances and have to find themselves safety from hunters that merely wish to kill them for their tusks. Dramatic sequences galore!
Whatever vision Katzenberg ever had -questionable I'd say, to me the magic of animation comes from the creatives 'on the floor', but hey...- he certainly lost it. It's a shame Tusker got canned.
I don't see how that can be ripping off Disney because there was never a rule that said other studios can't do fairy tales either. 
(The Swan Princess was a fairy tale, the Hobbit was...kind of a fairy tale....also the Last Unicorn....maybe the DW should go that route and do fantasy! Katzenberg did say that he is very jealous of Peter Jackson. 
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