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Summary: Magical?
Review: I really liked this movie in the theater, but when it came out on DVD I found that the movie felt dated and no longer as funny as it was! I still enjoy it though! Especially Donkey! However,this DVD is the bane of my DVD collection! If you want to enjoy any of the special features, you better know which disc you want. It is annoying to have to keep switching from disc to disc just to see all of them. I Think that this is one of the worst and most overrated DVD's to come out in recent years (see Harry Potter for another one!) The movie is ok, the DVD stinks! My suggestion: if you liked the movie, get the DVD, but be prepaired to be really annoyed!
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Summary: A fairy tale for just about everyone.
Review: Shrek is a fairy tale, a buddy picture, and a romantic comedy. In short, this is a movie for just about everyone! Shrek is an ogre ("You know, grab your pictchforks!") who only wants to be left alone. Too bad Lord Farquad wants all the Fairy Tale creatures out of his kingdom, and Shrek's swamp is the dumping ground for the evicted tenants. Aided by a talking donkey (played wonderfully by Eddie Murphy), Shrek journies to Farquand's castle and gets roped into a quest. Rescue a Princess for Farquad and he can get his swamp back. Easier said than done. Shrek is filled with humor (some of it a tad adult though, so parents should be warned) and emotion. It even has a message (albeit one undercut by some of its own humor) worth hearing. The dual disc allows you to see the movie either full frame or wide screen, and both are choke full of faux interviews with 'the cast', storyboards, games, music videos, and who knows what else (I haven't found any easter eggs, but I haven't looked). Beware, you to might fall in love with Shrek! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Shrek: a name to remember!
Review: This is among one of the best animated films that I have seen yet. It will have you on the floor. Literally!! Eddie Murphy was cast extremely well in this film as the donkey, who has incidentally taken on some of his charcteristics which makes the film even better. unlike your usualy disney fairytale, Dreamworks have been able to create a film that has a contemporary feel to it as it combines action, adventure and romance as well as comedy.So by all means go out and buy this video. It will be fun for the whole family!!
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Summary: Movie of the Year
Review: 2 of the most enjoyable hours I've spent watching a recent movie. It's another great film by Mike Myers. Laugh, cry all the good stuff and hilarious lines to boot.
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Summary: Ogres are like onions...
Review: If you haven't seen Shrek, run out and do so right this minute. I'll wait. Ok, you've seen it now? Good. Didn't you enjoy yourself? What was your favorite part? I don't know that I can actually pinpoint a favorite moment in the movie. I think the reason I like this movie so much (aside from the gorgeous animation) is how irreverently fun it is. This movie pokes fun at nearly every fairy tale held sacred by our society, and does so with unabashed glee. Shrek (Mike Meyers) is a big, surly, anti-social, unfriendly ogre. Oh yeah, and he's green. Shrek would like nothing better than to live in peace in his swamp shack, but finds that his routine is shattered by an influx of displaced fairy tale characters, including Donkey (Eddie Murphy), a small, grey, outgoing, talkative, well... donkey. Shrek sets off to find the source of the sudden flood of fairy folk into his realm accompanied (much to his dismay) by Donkey. As part of a bargain with Lord Farquaad of Duloc (John Lithgow), Shrek is tasked with rescuing Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from the obligatory dragon. Unable to shake his donkey companion, Shrek heads off to fulfill his half of the bargain. All sorts of merriment ensues, and romance and surprises are at every turn. The phrase "for kids of all ages" may be old and trite, but it describes this movie to a T. There's plenty of overt humor and pratfall silliness (not to mention bright, colorful animation) to fill any youth with glee, but the movie also has much to offer the adult viewer. Subtle (and not-so-subtle) references to other fairy tails, the aforementioned gorgeous animation, and humor abound.
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Summary: Great Story - great music
Review: This is just a fun movie. One of the few movies out today that the entire family will enjoy. We especially like the music video and special features on the DVD.
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Summary: Shrek is FANTASTIC
Review: This is a wonderfully innovative film the whole family will enjoy! With a surprising twist on the tried and true fairy tale formula, this funny and occasionally touching story about an ogre who just wants to be left alone is visually stimulating (for the kids), and entertaining and clever (for the teens and adults) enough to hold anyone's attention. I loved this movie, and I'm sure you will too! :P
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Summary: poetic justice
Review: I have to admit I was hesitant to watch this with the kids, having read that some of the language and humor were inappropriate, and some of it does seem gratuitous
and needlessly provocative; it would be a better film without. But it's so much fun, so energetic, and the computer generated animation looks so good, that I suppose
it can be grudgingly forgiven a few excesses. The filmmakers have taken William Steig's fairly minimal story and expanded it into a full blown fairy tale, complete with an evil lord, a dragon, and a plot
borrowed from Beauty and the Beast. Then they've given the whole thing a post-Modern twist that Steig would surely approve of, with insider jabs at Disney,
Princess Fiona reenacting slo-mo kung fu scenes from Cameron Diaz's Charlie's Angels role, and various other humorous touches that give an adult overlay to a
film that kids enjoy at an entirely different level. But for all the snarky humor, the Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy antics, and the impressive technology, the most delightful irony is that movie ends up working
because of the way it taps into classic themes. Shrek, the ugly and much-feared ogre, goes and rescues the princess after Lord Farquaad promises to restore the
misanthropic privacy of his swampy home. But over the course of their adventure the previously solitary ogre becomes friends with donkey and falls in love with
Fiona. Together they learn timeless lessons about friendship, loyalty, love, and the true nature of beauty. Those involved may think themselves hip and daring
heroes of counterculture for calling a donkey a "jack..." in a kids' film, but the joke's on them as they retreat into homey bourgeois homilies by film's end, which
Mr. Steig seem likely to have disapproved of. I very much like the poetic justice of the filmmakers retreat. But, of course, I'm a bourgeois and believe in those
homilies. GRADE : A
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Summary: a great example of wonderful talent put to waste
Review: shrek....... what garbage. i had heard from a friend who had went to see it that it wasn't very funny, but i decided to rent it, just to see. she was dead on. a lack of humor plagues this movie, and really crushes the great talent behind it (meyers, murphey, and diaz.) There was 1!!! funny scene in this movie, where the gingerbread man cookie says eat me. Otherwise, this movie included a lot eye-rolling. Regardless, its a good story, and an original idea, just one that was very poorly made. This seems to be one of those movies where people are just laughing because other people who don't know what funny is, are. And because of this, they are making a sequel, which is unfortunate, unless they fix this up. ...
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Summary: Listen up Disney, take notes!
Review: When I first saw previews of Shrek, I compared it with a Disney-wanna-be in all the wrong ways. I avoided it at all costs. My 3 year old daughter went to see it with her father and when it came on DVD, she begged for it. I went against my better judgment and bought it. I ignored the first 3 minutes of it, missing the storybook, and so, missing the link between spell and princess. Then within the first 5 minutes, a fart and burp joke, I rolled my eyes. From then on, I ended up interested in it, enjoying it. I've been a fan of Disney movies for a long time, but this was so fresh and new. All the Disney-in-jokes were a trip. Everytime Donkey tried to sing, Shrek shut him up, and we all know how Disney loves to throw a song in when there is nothing else to say. I LOVE the Gingerbread Man scene, he should have had more screen time. And the voice actors were wonderful for their parts! There were some adult oriented jokes, but they went over the kids heads completely. I have yet to know a child that got the joke about Lord Farquaad's "big castle". And if they do get it, their parents should be shamed :P The whole story was just adorable. Beauty and the Beast, but just who is the Beast and who is Beauty? That's what's great, they are both the Beast and the Beauty. Gotta watch that karaoke scene too! That was too funny! Please, please, don't get my close-minded mentality like I did when I first heard about it. Rent it, buy it, watch it. FINALLY, a movie parents WANT to watch with their kids!
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