What's up with American Animation?

Here's one of my biggest pet peeves - American animation. It sucks, for the most part.
I mean really, the Japanese get Final Fantasy with its plethora of hot guys and cool motorcycles and long, thick...swords...




And we in America get what? Shrek :(
Don't get me wrong, I do like Shrek. I have all three movies on DVD. I thought it was quite funny.
But I mean, come on people - these are characters you can draw, characters you make up, characters that can be as hot or not as you like, so why not...