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LOVED IT!
Great for young and old, original, funny, and just a great
animated movie! Watch it, you'll love it too!

La Bella y la Bestia
Los Tres Cochinitos bailando Breakdance. Pinocchio vendido por Gepetto. Cenicienta y Blancanieves peléandose por el bouquet de la novia. Los 7 enanos en una banda de rock. ¿Pueden imaginarse una historia tan descabellada?

No se trata de una pesadilla. Es Shrek, una nueva y maravillosa cinta animada que, entre sus muchas sorpresas, se burla de los cuentos clásicos de hadas.

La película nos presenta con ingenio una historia similar a la del Patito Feo, pero en este caso, el protagonista es un ogro verde que vive en un pantano y usa la cera de sus oídos para iluminar su mesa.

Cercano al hogar de Shrek, está el Reino Mágico de Duloc, donde Lord Farquaad destierra a todos los personajes de los cuentos de hadas, enviándolos al pantano del ogro. A partir de ese momento, un burro que no para de hablar se convierte en el amigo inseparable de Shrek, quien llega a un acuerdo con Lord Farquaad para recuperar su hogar y decide rescatar a la princesa Fiona, atrapada en un castillo lejano custodiado por un dragón, para que Farquaad pueda casarse con ella.

Pero en esta historia, el ogro será el héroe, el burro el noble corcél, el príncipe un villano con complejo napoleónico y la princesa una experta en artes marciales con un secreto inimaginable.

No hay nada dulce o color rosa en Shrek, una fabulosa parodia de los cuentos de hadas y los personajes que abundan en ella. La cinta entretiene a todo el mundo y no tiene piedad de nadie, mientras sus diálogos derrochan referencias de la cultura moderna que los adultos disfrutarán enormemente. La Macarena, Riverdance, The Matrix, todos tienen su momento estelar en Shrek.

En el corazón del film está su protagonista, una bestia que no es tan fea como él piensa y cuyo miedo al rechazo está enmascarado con malhumor y soledad.

La animación es más que extraordinaria, particularmente las detalladas expresiones faciales y las texturas de las pieles. Pero la mejor animación no habría hecho de Shrek un éxito sin la historia tan fresca y original que nos presenta.

El mensaje que la película nos ofrece es eterno y verdadero: no debemos juzgar a las personas por su apariencia, pues como las cebollas, todos los seres humanos tenemos muchas capas. En cada persona hay mucho más que lo que se ve en la superficie. No se puede determinar lo que hay en el corazón de otras personas con solo mirarlas.

Incluso un ogro como Shrek, que se privó del contacto con otras criaturas, tenía -en el fondo- un deseo reprimido por encontrar compañía y amistad. Todos lo tenemos.

What's with all the five-star ratings?
First of all, I cannot believe that the makers would allow Princess Fiona to marry a cannibal - Shrek ate human eyeballs for supper at the beginning of the movie - I guess he got them from villagers he scalped. In my opinion, the main reason Shrek is hated is not because he is ugly - he is hated because he is a cannibal. After all, those villagers did, "Careful, now. He'll grind your bones to make his bread."

Here are some upsetting quotes.

"Actually, that would be a giant. Now, ogres, whoah, they're much worse. They'll peel your skin and make a soup out of it. Why they'll squeeze the jelly from your eyeballs. Actually, it's quite good on toast."

Not very funny, Shrek. If you enjoy this disgusting humour, you should be ashamed of yourself for denouncing the rest of mankind.

And what else? Take this.

"I'll decapitate a whole village, get a knife, cut open their spleens, and drink their fluids. Do you like the sound of that?"

Um...no, and I was actually upset that this movie would make talking about such things, let alone, carrying them out, look like it's 'funny' and even 'OK'. Or, in other words, glorify such matters.

I would've liked the movie without that. That took away one-star.

The conflict is quite original in the new cinematic age we now live in, and I give it five stars.

The characters are well-developed, and I give them five stars.

The plot could've been better. It was actually very predictible. Shrek is a lone ogre. One day, Shrek finds the Lord Farquaad has forced all fairy tale creatures onto his land. Naturally, he goes to complain. So Farquaad makes a deal with him. Shrek rescues the princess for Farqaad to marry, and so the plan gets carried out. On the way, Shrek and the princess find that they're falling in love. And so somehow Fiona leaves Farquaad at the altar, and marries Shrek. My rating: three stars.

This movie has a great message, and I like it. But somehow, in my humble opinion, that message gets 'twisted'. The moral is that it's inner beauty that counts. Then, why, for some bad reason, are the 'good' characters only mocking the UGLY (despite the fact we're trying to break the classic stereotype of bad guy is ugly) Lord Farquaad for his small size, rather than his thoughtlessness? I really wished DreamWorks had used a real Prince Charming as an antagonist instead of some ugly lord to illustrate their point. Three stars.

The animation is a five-star top notch performance.

Overall, I don't reccomend buying this DVD. It was interesting the first time around, but gets boring after you watch the movie three times.

The only really impressive features on the DVD are the 'Making Of, Deleted Scenes, and Shrek's Music Room'. It features several horrible games like 'Magic Mirror', where you ask a question, and the mirrir PRETENDS to answer you, most of the time being completely wrong. Those games are NOT meant to be played, but ratehr to put people to sleep with boredom.

Do yourself a favour, and rent this DVD instead of buying it. Fall asleep after the third watching it. You'll be glad you did.

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