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Ogres have fairy tales too...
Yes, it is a children's movie, but it's really good. It's funny and interesting to watch. It's a different way of telling the fairy tales. The graphics are good. The movie itself is worth watching.



Charming fun from an unexpected hero
Whereas Pixar always focused on good, clean family fun in its pictures, Shrek came into the spotlight because Dreamworks decided to skew the jokes a little more towards the older audience, while maintaing the basic family-friendly atmosphere. It worked, and Shrek was the film that proved it didn't take Disney/Pixar to create animated box-office gold.

This first movie in the series still holds up well. Some of the pop culture jokes are instantly dated (this was done when everyone had to do a Matrix spoof), but others like the jabs at Disney are still hilarious. It helps that at its heart, Shrek still has all the usual fairy tale elements, albeit twisted. Myers, Diaz, and Murphy turn in top performances. And some of the dialogue is quite memorable ("Ogres are like onions").

The dvd has some decent extras, as well as a sampling of dvd rom games that are better than most extras of this sort. It's still not a really loaded set, but it's good for a family release and worth looking into.

TERRIFIC FAMILY FILM THAT HOLDS EVERYBODYS' INTEREST
FIRST IMPRESSIONS -- If one were to imagine a happy ending where 'Belle' from 'BEAUTY & THE BEAST' became a beast in the end rather than the beast becoming a Prince, one can get an idea of what Shrek is all about.


ALOT IS GOING ON, BUT IT IS ALL FUN & HOLDS OUR INTEREST --

As with "Ice Age," I found myself watching and re-watching this new, animated epic which has quickly become a favorite of our family -- children and adults alike. For some reason, my wife thought this film might be too "mature" for our youngest [age 5] to enjoy appropriately, but like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", the adult jokes go over the toddlers' heads without so much as an expectant look. Part of what makes this film so good is the way it lampoons the usual cliches. Somehow in the process, Shrek seems to avoid those overdone, tired cliches by suspending our disbelief and redefining the genre in a way we may not have expected [for a change] and moving the power of the story up a notch, keeping pace with the soaring technologies and budgets now available to bring these epics to us, the audience.

SHREK IS A FILM THAT WORKS & IS IDEAL FOR FAMILY TOGETHER TIME

Also like "Ice Age", the plot really moves cleanly and concisely and does not get caught up in song. Disney can make the songs work for the plot, but no other studio could have us humming "The Bare Necessities" 35 years after it was released in "The Jungle Book". In Shrek, the ending is satisfying, although it would be much like "Beauty and the Beast" ending with Belle becoming a beast too (courtesy of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the K is Dreamworks SKG)!

THE DVD & SPECIAL FEATURES --

The DVD played wonderfully and had hours of features that the kids enjoyed, with Eddie Murphy's character Donkey imploring humorously, "PICK ME"! SHREK is a real winner.

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