Apparently, some business-savvy types are a bit perturbed at DreamWorks’ move to open the company to public ownership. As part of “The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week”, TheStreet.com listed DreamWorks at number four in a scathing criticism of the filing move. “It’s not that Shrek and Shrek 2 aren’t great. They are. And they made decent money, too. The problem is everything else. The other seven movies DWA has released theatrically — ranging from the hit original Shrek to the turkey known as Sinbad — garnered an average of $102 million. Not bad. But what’s clear to us is that DWA is timing the IPO to ride the wave of extraordinarily good results, not average ones.” Standing on a shallow, relatively weak library of films may handicap DreamWorks in the long term. In a worst-case scenario, though, it won’t even take that long. Taking such grand measures on a single successful franchise is indeed a risk. A folly, though? Time will tell.