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Summary: A movie my husband actually stuck around to watch
Review: Usually during "movie night" my husband gets bored and wanters off... this is one of the FEW children's movies that held his attention
WOW!!
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Summary: needlessly scatalogical but otherwise terrific
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...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: Great movie
Review: I don't care about the computer animation specifics. This movie is excellent, and I would recommend it to a friend. The computer animation is realistically 3-D, but I think the music and especially the story line are it's best features.
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Summary: Pretty Good, But Too Much Gross Out Gags
Review: This was a good movie, and I'm a teenager. The jokes are funny on a few different levels, which makes them even better. The animation is wonderful and the music is great too. The plot follows Shrek the ogre trying to rescue a princess so that he can get the deed to his swamp back. Along the way, he meets Donkey, a talking donkey who he becomes friends with, and he falls in love with Princess Fioana. The only bad part about this movie was the bathroom humor. I really think they could have done without it.
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Summary: Mixed Emotions
Review: I thought Shrek was technically excellent. The animation is well crafted. Mike Meyer's and Cameron Diaz were fine but Eddie Murphy was a bit too slick and drew attention to himself so that I felt at times that I was listening to a Murphy stand-up routine rather than the donkey character. The "bathroom" jokes & gross-out antics seem to be an integral part of today's Hollywood comedy. Do we really need trash culture invading our animated features?
Needless to say I'm disappointed, not so much at what Shrek is but at what it could have been.
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Summary: Good Fun and Entertaining
Review: Not knowing much about the movie when we took our eight year old to see it, we were plesantly surprised by the wit and humor of the script. Some may consider the humor and wordplay mildly crude but it is delightful for youngsters. I personally enjoyed the earwax scene. The film's animation is superb and the soundtrack is alot of fun. Overall the film is very entertaining.
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Summary: This movie rots
Review: Shrek is probably the most overrated animated movie of all time. All of the celebrated humor is really just pandering pop-culture referencing of the dumbest kind. The animators were not even creative enough to give their own characters unique looks - all of the physical characteristics and mannerisms of the animated characters just ape those of the voice-over actors. Very, very clever (& precious) and not smart at all.
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Summary: Great Copycat
Review: I was highly disappointed after hearing how wonderful this film is. The animation was wonderful, and the voices were superb! But the story, the lack of characters, and the constant referral to other movies made me wonder what make this film so special. I was rather disgusted several times throughout the movie and horrified to think this is a family film, with scenes like the earwax, the bird's eggs becoming fried, and the frog and the snake being blown up!!
One last thing that is interesting: my 13-year-old son left the room after 45 minutes because he was bored, and he adores cartoons and other animated movies.
To finish, I think the fact that this movie won the academy award for best animated film (over a wonderful original movie like Monsters, Inc.) is an insult to the animation industry: it is at best a lining up of already seen stories, and at worst, it was being cheated into the competition!
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Summary: Best way for Mom's to have a 1 1/2 to themselves.
Review: As many of you know by now, Shrek is great. This is why: not only does it entertain children and adults, but the animation is wonderful. Shrek is one of those movies that you can watch hundreds of times (and with my two year old I have)and see something you missed the first time. Shrek has a wonderful soundtrack also, it brought back a lot of older music, but made it new for the younger generation. To this day when "I'm a Believer" comes on the radio my two year old screams out "SHREK". This is a wonderful family film that accomplishes soo much, keeping my two year old entertained for a couple of hours. The end.
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Summary: Excelnent!Almoast 5 stars
Review: In portugal we had also recieved this excelent dvd and it has been a......I have no words to describe it
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