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Summary: DANDY GIFT
Review: BOUGHT IT FOR MY NIECE FOR HER BIRTHDAY. PURCHASED THE DVD FOR MY OLDEST SON. IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE. THE ANIMATION WAS GREAT.
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Summary: CHRISTMAS 2001
Review: THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE. MY KIDS ENJOYED IT. THE ANIMATION WAS GREAT.
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Summary: Like a friend who's trying too hard to be funny.
Review: Shrek tries desperately to be funny, in a Disney's Aladdin sort of way. And, sometimes, it is. Amazingly, as Disney's movies descend further and further into mediocrity, and as digitally animated films like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. deliver mildly amusing kiddy jokes, Shrek seems almost witty by comparison. The trouble is, however, that there are more witty insights and genuinely intellectual humor in a single episode of the Simpsons than in all of Shrek. It's fairly easy to see why. Shrek has the look and feel of an edgy film made by a committee of bankers. Again, there are clever moments here, but nothing great. It's simply too bad that this represents perhaps the best animated film in years. That's the state of the art, unfortunately.Mike Myer's voice characterization is bland and unremarkable ... One can only imagine how wonderful it would have been to have Chris Farley voice the lovable green lump. Chris died, of course, before he could complete his work. Eddie Murphy is similarly forgettable. Finally, the "inside" Disney jokes are okay, but just that. Put some bright teenagers to work and they could come up with stuff that is much funnier. I've seen it happen, in fact. I'm not disappointed I watched this. It's pretty good. And it gives some hope after seeing awful movies like Ice Age.
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Summary: Shrek
Review: This movie "blew my socks off"!!! I adored the animation, and found the graphics to be the best I've ever seen. I am 48 years old ... and I can't quite figure out who was more awed by this movie.... my 5 year old niece or me....no exageration at all here! I think I smiled almost throughout the movie... except for a few cruel things that Arquaad did or said. What a jerk! ... ahhh but he got his!!! What goes around, comes around.. which brings you right back to the theme of the story, and ends with the orbital path of truth and love once again. Ahhhhhhhhh ... that feels good. :) If I remember correctly ... isn't this the way that films SHOULD be made. Real life is tough enough. I say "SHREK FOR PRESIDENT" :) ENJOY ALL !!
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Summary: Best fun outside the bedroom!
Review: We love it, we've watched it in the theater too, and the DVD lets us settle arguments - like, did the evil prince actually get to kiss the princess? Great fun; excellent quality; addictive music at the end - we're not quite baby boomers, and the tunes are just right - my wife threw out her back trying to dance to them!
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Summary: Ogreable? You better "believe" it!
Review: At the end of the classic tale, "The Wizard of Oz", amidst the whirlwind twister damage and broken beams, the Tinman, The Lion and The Scarecrow stand over Dorothy's bed gazing down at their Princess. Is she alive? Is she happy? Will she take that silly dog and run away again? Yet Dorothy looks up through glazed eyes and a bruised head but only one thing matters.."There's no place like home". "There's no place like home". Shrek is Homecoming, a revisitation and feel-good head-to-toe warmth generated from all the twisted yet poignant fairy tales you believed in as a child. Like "Oz", it is a formula fairy tale. There is your Beast, your Beauty, your Wicked King and Bumbling Sidekick. The Girl has a dream. Girl realizes a dream. But perhaps the dream isn't quite all it's swamped up to be. Or is it? Our Hero is a mighty green ogre with a Bad Attitude, some incredibly gross habits (and what child doesn't love gross?) and an intensive need for a good gum scraping and tooth whitener. Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame seems to succeed with rotten teeth better than most actors with a million-dollar smile. As big and Bad to the Bone that Shrek is, he is also an "onion": many layers of a Good Man are buried and swaddled deep within the Beast. Our Faithful Sidekick is an As*, but you gotta love him.
Eddie Murphy is the Donkey, a babbling but good-hearted Mule who attaches himself to Shrek's side and doesn't understand the meaning of Personal Space. Stealing the show with some incredibly funny lines, he also becomes the unlikely Object of Affection for a certain fire-breathing mammal, an interesting and delightful twist of events that the parents will certainly enjoy and understand more than the children. We have a King, of course, named Farqaat, played by John Lithgow. The movie's premise begins with Farqaat evicting all of the Fairy Tale characters from Dulac who are less than perfect. Perfection in his eyes, of course, is quite a twisted matter, as Farqaat stands about 4'2 but compensates for his height symbolically by erecting the hugest castle in Dulac. The displaced fairy tale creatures are dumped into Shrek's swamp, and being the quiet and introverted Ogre that he is, he simply cannot condone the company. Watching the Three Blind Mice battling on his slab of a table, he claws at his face and demands to know who is responsible for his Gated Community being occupied by trashy renters. Visiting Fargaat, Shrek and Donkey are commanded by Farqaat to rescue the Princess and bring her to the King. His motive? True Love? Hardly. Farqaat is a diminutive little man with a diminutive little heart who merely needs a Vehicle to ensure his Kingship. High Maintenance Ho Ho Ho's Cameron Diaz is the Princess, encased in her lonely tower far from the center of the Disney parody town of Dulac.
This Princess has been sitting around that little empty chamber quite long enough, thank you. She's got her bags packed, her flight tickets checked and she's ready to go. She's empowered. She's determined. She's run this scenario through her head a thousand times and damn it if this guy thinks he's going to ruin it.
As many Princesses do, she needs to feel the kiss of One True Love, but she also employs some rather Matrix-like talents to prove that she can kick butt. She does it all without messing up her hairdo as well. She is motivated by a secret goal that drives and empowers her.
Inevitably, what she needs and what she gets become two entirely different things. In terms of For Better or For Worse, she gets both...yet no fairy tale story could have had a better ending. Dreamworks Katzenberg, former Disney Executive, ousted like a Big Green Ogre gets his sweet Revenge with every slap at the Disney icons he can muster. We cheer, we roar-we want More! Dreamworks has created a significantly wonderful parody tale with tremendous graphics and a script that will keep you laughing from minute one to end. Some of the lines go right over the children's heads but straight to your brains, and every adult appreciates when these tasty morsels are tossed at us. Shrek is a non-stop flight from Oz's Yellow Brick Road right to the center of your heart.
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Summary: Fun cartoon
Review: This movies is a lot of fun. I think it is creative, and it is definitely clever. The only bad thing about this movie is that a good number of the jokes are poking fun at other movies, so they may not be understood by everyone. But it is well done, and the computer animation is excellent. I didn't notice any glitches or rough looking spots. Everything moves almost naturally. Some people and things walk a little strangely, but that is hardly enough to pick at. I would definitely recommend this movie.
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Summary: This movie is NOT for kids!
Review: Someone got my son this movie as a Christmas gift last year (he was 3 at the time). I'm so glad I watched it first. Within the first 5 minutes I had decided that he would not see this movie now - and he would not see it 2 years from now either. The movie may have gotten great reviews, but I thought it was vulgar. It's certainly not what I want my child to see and then imitate. Not for kids younger than 10, in my opinion.
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Summary: a tasty onion of a movie
Review: What is there left to say about Shrek that has not been said? Who knows? My own feelings on the movie are like an onion. First, I love Mike Myers as Shrek. He is a disagreeable yet lovable hero. From the opening shower seen to the closing song, this movie is dependent upon Myers as the lead--and he does not falter. As for Murphy and Diaz, this is the best movie from either of them in a long while. The eagerness of the Donkey fits nicely with Murphy's talents. Diaz does pretty well as the straight man (straight princess I guess). The true joy for me in Shrek were the (fractured) fairy tale references and the subtle (and not-so-subtle) digs at Disney. In particular the scene where Shrek and Donkey arrive in Lord Farquaad's realm cracks me up. The photo is priceless. Enough of my rambling though. Shrek is a funny, funny movie. If you haven't seen it--I suggest you do so. I know I'll be watching this one again. I give Shrek my heartfelt recommendation.
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Summary: Not Bad at all...
Review: But not as great in my opinion as some say. That doesn't mean you wouldn't enjoy it though. It's a pretty funny movie and there're some moment that'll make you burst out laughing, but I felt that Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy's performancer her toned down. These are two of the funniest men in hollywood and if given the freedom, they could have made one of the funniest films ever, but that's not the case. Not that they're bad in the roles. They both do fine jobs, just not up to their usual stanards. John Lithgow is a wonderfully incomptent villian. His role let him really strut his stuff and show of his comedi skillsThe graphics in this film are really nice. They remind me of video game graphics in their style, but they're much smoother and more detailed In my opinion, the best part of this movie were the stabs towards Disney and the totally twisted takes on fairy tale character (the interigation of the ginger bread man in priceless)All in all, this is a good film to kill a couple of hours, it's fun and a decent film for the entire family
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