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Shrek Steals Our Hearts... And Our Pockets
Shrek is the perfect film for a not so perfect family. Every fairy tale in the movie is fractured in some way, or badly criticized. This is what makes Shrek plenty of fun. Shrek is an anti hero, someone who doesn't expect anything coming his way. Everytime an eventual adventure approaches him, Shrek always reluctantly steps up to the plate. That's what Disney heroes lack. Second, Shrek isn't exactly prince charming. That's brilliantly funny since Mike Myers provides a Scottish type accent. Not too handsome and not too ugly, Shrek can somehow convince you that he can steal a princess' heart. The supporting cast blew me away too. Princess Fiona boasts the best computer animation and Cameron Diaz provided a good voice for her. The comic relief of this tale is Donkey, played by Eddie Murphy. Every single joke brought so many laughes. I'm sure it will for you too. John Lithgow is the voice for the stature challenged Lord Farquaad. He is a villain filled with an egotistical mind and an eye for a dream kingdom. So, to sum it all up, Shrek should be noted for two things. The seamless computer animation and the talented voice actors. All make a great story seem greater. To buy the DVD would do this film movie justice.

Absolutely the BEST!
The vocalizations really make this movie. Being a rabid Mike Myers fan I think he did an awesome job with Shrek, but Eddie Murphy really stole the show with Donkey. Especially his spiel about Parfaits. You can see the actors characteristics coming out in the animation also, especially Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona.

Shrek must leave his swamp and rescue Princess Fiona from her imprisonment in a Dragon guarded castle, and take her to Lord Farquaad so that he can have his swamp back again. He winds out with Donkey as his companion on his quest, and to sum it up, it is laugh after laugh.

Just lighten up and don't expect great art, and remember that The English Patient in all it's painful and anesthetizing duration actually won awards for boring audiences to death. Shrek is a hilarious movie never intended to send an important message, it just silly and fun. The Karaoke tune at the very end is a riot!!

Besides, a good fart joke is fun, because farts are funny. My favorite line? "Was that you Shrek? Man! You gotta warn me before you just crack one off like that! My mouth was open and everything!"

An overrrated comedy?
Based on William Steig's bizzare backwards fairy tale, DreamWork's SHREK has fantastic animation, great voice casting and infamous "irreverent" humor. An ogre and a donkey rescuing a princess for an under-endowed King. How cleverly post-modern. Ha and indeed ha. Yes, it's a worldwide cartoon phenomenon or something like that. Now don't get me wrong, I like the recent movies like this one that trade traditional cute jokes for movie lampooning and irreverent gags, but I find it hard to avoid the fact that this "hilarious" comedy is somewhat overrated. Shrek (Mike Myers) and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) are a good odd-couple and there are some great jabs at Disney throughout the film's running time. But fart gags and weird humor aside, it's not as clever as it thinks it is. There are some fantastically funny moments in the film, especially the gingerbread man sequence and lines like "In the morning, i'm making waffles!" And the escape from the dragon's castle is a tour-de-force of fantastic animation and strange gags. However it's far more funnier if you take it as the sum of its parts rather than the movie as a whole. It may sound like just knocking success, but if you actually sit back and watch it, well, it really depends on if you want to sit through a cartoon with gross-out humour and fart gags. From a technical standpoint, the CGI photo-realistic water and fur simulation is brilliant. Since the success of TOY STORY, computer-generated cartoons have come a long way and it's impossible to deny that the CG is impressive. But then, so was the CG in Godzilla (Lesson: Impressive effects do not a good movie make). Watching SHREK in comparison to Pixar's competition MONSTERS INC, the latter is a more clever premise. Shrek gets 5 stars for animation, but it's a 3 star movie for laughs. the DVD extras are impressive though, with Commentaries, mock interviews, 'making of' docos and trailers.

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