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Summary: Don't laugh without it!
Review: This is a review about the DVD.Shrek is one of the best movies around. The spoofs create an atmosphere of fun, remembrance of youth, and fantasy of kid stuff that makes for a great family experience. The DVD extras make it worth the effort of buying a DVD player if you don't already own one (if only to hear the gingerbread man say continually, "Not my gumdrop buttons!") The added bloopers of animation errors are hilarious! The one of Farquaad with the invisible crown just about takes the cake for bad hair days!This movie gets a 5-star rating for superb attention to detail (the donkey extinguishing the fire), incredible use of fairy tale subplots, grossness that makes any kid (or adult) laugh uncontrollably, and DVD extras.
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Summary: Okay- once!
Review: This movie is like a fairy tale, with some unexpected twists. But after you watch this movie 2 or 3 times, it gets boring!
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Summary: Okay in places, but in general overrated
Review: Shrek got rave reviews over here, and everyone said it was brilliant. I quite enjoy kids' movies (no blood, guts or horror ^_^) and I enjoyed other CG movies such as the Toy Story films, and Antz. I also loved the idea of a movie satirising Disney fairy tales! So I was very keen to see Shrek and had high hopes for it.
Maybe that was the problem. Because although I wasn't shocked by the movie, I definitely didn't come away bowled over either. I didn't mind the animation or the music, so what was it?
I don't really know, but having recently seen the movie again, I've come to the conclusion that Shrek has something nasty at its core. I'm not sure what this is, but I do know that unlike Toy Story, Cats And Dogs or even the Hey Arnold! movie, Shrek leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Maybe it's the humour, which is either adult or toilet-related. Okay, that's partly a personal thing (I don't really get on with that sort of humour) but I would have thought that a movie that sets itself up to be a parody would be able to generate humour from satire rather than flatulence jokes. In fact, I don't feel that the movie was a successful parody at all. It was more like a Disney story with gross-out humour and a slightly manic/nasty edge to it - that is, the worst of both worlds.
The plot had some holes in it - why exactly did Farquaard arrest the fairy tale characters, and how did they then all end up in the swamp, for instance? The characters were variable - I found Shrek unlikeable, Donkey was okay but swiftly got annoying, and Fiona was average. I also didn't like the treatment of Fiona. Note the way Shrek picks her up and carries her away, humiliating her because she won't do what he wants. And the way he tries to shut her in the cave! Also, how can people say the movie shows people can be good and evil, not one or the other? Farquaard is just as wicked as any Disney villain.
There are some humorous parts to this movie, and some excitement, and some poignancy. But it's not half as good as it's said to be, and as a biting satire on Disney movies, it fails miserably.
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Summary: Shrek - an excellent movie!!!
Review: Don't be discouraged by the fact that this is an animated movie! I was skeptical at first, to say the least, when my friends told me how funny this movie was... "It's aimed at 5 year olds" was my inital thought!! BUT after sitting down to watch this, it has become one of my favourite movies!! Eddie Murphy almost steals the spotlight in his highly entertaining voice of the donkey and Mike Myers does an equally good job of Shrek, an ogre, the main character of the film. The humour in this movie provides so many laughs and some of the jokes couldn't possibly have been aimed at children as they are often very mature and subtle!! The animation is fantastic and the cameos from favourite nursery rhymes/children's stories make the movie even more interesting for children!! The music featured in the film is also a highlight!! It has a wonderful musical repertoire of remakes of old songs as well as brand new ones including "I'm a Believer" by Smash Mouth... the music in this movie will have you up dancing and to have it sung and performed by animated characters will bring laugter all around! All up, this movie offers great animation of loveable characters, entertainment for both the kids and adults, catchy music that will have you dancing and humour that will being tears to your eyes. What more could you possibly need? ;)
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Summary: Hilarious, For Mature Audiences
Review: When I first watched this, I thought that the all-star cast (Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Eddie Murphy) were great. I that this movie isn't appropriate for PG and should be more of a PG-13. There is a lot of humor that younger children probably wouldn't and shouldn't be about to pick up on like, "Shrek thinks Lord Farquad is compensating for something. I think it makes he has a small..."
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Summary: Shrek
Review: Move over Disney because here comes Shrek! This was one of the best animated films that I had seen since Disney last great, The Lion King. Don't get me wrong there have been others as well (like TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2), but Shrek really stands apart from them all because, it's funny, witty and a great movie all together. Shrek (Mike Myers) is an Ogre who just wants to be left alone but because of evil Lord Farquadd (John Lithgow) who has made a declaration to find and rid his land of all fairy tale creatures. In turn, they all getted dumped into Shrek's swamp and he's not too happy about that. Along with his companion Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek sets out to go meet with Lord Farquadd to get all of the fairy tale characters out of his swap. Farquadd then tells Shrek that he will get rid of them if Shrek can defeat a dragon and rescue sleeping Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) so that Farquadd can marry her and become King. It's a movie that'll make you laugh and your kids laugh too. This is a great film! It's very funny and a great story along with excellent animation and the comedy of Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy will keep you laughing for hours. Also, the DVD has some great features as well, if you're into the extras. A perfect movie for anyone. Check this out! You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: A delightful fairy tale for kids and adults alike
Review: Remember "Fractured Fairy Tales" on the old "Bullwinkle" TV show, where they warped such old standards as Sleeping Beauty? (FYI, the FFT version of that tale had a prince who suspiciously resembled Walt Disney decline to wake Sleeping Beauty and instead turn her castle into a tourist attraction called Sleeping Beauty-Land.) That spirit is very much alive and well in "Shrek," a computer-animated film about an ogre who agrees to rescue a princess when an evil (and vertically-challenged) prince exiles hordes of fairy-tale characters to his neck of the swamp. Mike Myers is terrifically convincing as the gentle but tough Shrek with a light Scottish accent. John Lithgow is properly villainous as Lord Farquaad; Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, however, just doesn't sound as convincing as her co-stars. But it is Eddie Murphy who steals the show as the ever-talkative Donkey who accompanies Shrek on his quest. "Shrek" is simply delicious, not only providing lots of fun for kids and adults alike (with the requisite burp and fart jokes that will delight kids and the young at heart) but also sending a very good message - just because someone else says you're ugly doesn't make it so.
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Summary: A movie, kids and adults can both enjoy!
Review: I LOVE this movie!
Not only does this movie deliver exceptionally good attention to detail in its computer generated images. (the maggots and slime..ewww)
The storyline and characters are unforgettable.
Very creative plot and a great film that would appeal to both kids and adults alike.
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Summary: Very tight, witty and worth watching. Never a boring moment.
Review: Like "Ice Age" I found myself watching and watching this new animated epic which quickly became a favorite of our family, children and adults alike. For some reason my wife thought this film might be too "something" for our youngest [age 3] 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. Also, like "Ice-Age", the plot really moves cleanly and concisely along and does not get caught up in song. Disney can make the songs work for the plot, but who else can have us humming "The Bare Necessities," 35 years after it was released in "The Jungle Book" by a singing Bear? In Shrek the ending is satisfying though it would be much like "Beauty and the Beast" ending with Belle becoming a beast too! Yes, you'll just have to see it and we'll all have to see the sequel coming out in 2004 and hopefully it will be a sequel to match Toy Story 2, minus the music of course.
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Summary: Best fairy-tale ever!
Review: Have you ever noticed that all the other romantic fairy-tales always involve a dashingly handsome prince and a beautiful young princess falling madly in love at first sight and then living happily ever after (at least as portrayed by Hollywood)? I mean, how shallow must their knowledge and understanding of each other be! And love? Not to say there is no such thing as love at first sight, but marriage -- a life-time commitement after one kiss (in the case of Snow White)? And do we even know they are good people? Could it be possible that Cinderella would marry the prince just to escape her torturous life from the step-mother and step-sisters? And what do we know about the Prince Charming who revived Snow White with a kiss? Beauty and the Beast is probably as far as Hollywood had ever departed from the beauty and prince rule, but wait -- Beast is *really* a prince! How wonderful! And good for Beauty! Bottom line? It's not only unrealistic, but also devoid of any valueable lesson or even advisable message for today's kids and teenagers. Enter Shrek! A totally unattractive, unorthodox, irreverent, a bit scary, but humorous creature who lives not in a castle but a swamp, who has no white horse, but an uninvited annoying donkey as his sidekick. The initial impression of Shrek isn't pretty, but we know he has a thousand times more personality than a poster prince whose character seems to be defined by his props. He may not come off immediately as like-able, but at least we see an individual, full of life, with his own thoughts and emotions. By now you should know the plot already, which I won't repeat. It is to Shrek's creaters' credit that we automatically want to say, "Wait a minute: this is all wrong! *Lord Faaqua* should be the one rescuing Princess Fiona, not *Shrek*!" What a great setup! Part of the movie's attraction is how it deviates from the cliches of the traditional romantic fairy-tale. As the movie progresses, we become aware of our own prejudice with the realization that Shrek, just like Princess Fiona, is not what we perceived him to be in the first place. In the romance that ensues between the two, we see the wonder of love in the characters: true emotions; from joy, hesitation, to the attempt to resist love, to even fear. We see that love in fairy-tales can also happen between an average-looking princess who burps knows kung-fu and an ogre with bad manners but a soft heart, and that fairy-tale creatures do not have to be either absolutely perfect or pure evil -- much like the real world, actually. And we learn this in a movie that is didactic without being preachy or boring, but fun and hilarious! Honestly, can you think of another fairy-tale movie that is as inspired, three-dimensional, heart-warming, entertaining, and morally conscious all at the same time? Then what are you waiting for? Grab your copy of the Shrek right now! Enjoy! :)
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