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Summary: Wow! Great graphics AND a great story to go with them!
Review: What can I say? I'm impressed. Unlike so many other computer generated movies, Shrek had more than just eye candy. There was actually a coherent, engaging, and comedic tale to go along with them. And what I like best is that it pleases everyone! The characters are easy to get to know, the plot is simple enough for kids to understand, but not so childish that parents won't enjoy watching it too, with many a play on words that the younger set will understand one way, and that the adults will understand another-really quite funny. There's even a moral or two at the end for the littluns.
This is a great family movie. With three sarcastic characters, a laughable antagonist, and a hilarious plot with a twist you won't see coming, Shrek has got the goods to please anyone between the ages of seven to seventy! Enjoy!
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Summary: Adorable and Fun
Review: I visited the movie theater twice to see this movie while it was still out, and I bought the DVD right away when it came out. The plot is cute, the characters and performances were outstanding, and the visuals were very impressive. The only thing that keeps me from giving this movie 5 stars is that it's not something you can watch over and over again and never get tired of. For that, I recommend South Park, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. =)
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Summary: funny!
Review: I thought good movies were only true in fairy tales, meant for some-other dimension and not for mine. Fart, burp, insect and ear wax jokes...what more can a person want. My four year old loved and laughed with this movie as much I did. The humour was great, animation amazing and voice acting seriously impressive. I usually don't enjoy "regular" actors doing voice work, but they did good choices in this case, though perhaps Cameron Diaz could have been a little stronger. I have never seen so many fairy tale references/parodies before, and I loved it.
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Summary: cartoons ain't just for kids
Review: This movie is funny as heck, and intelligent, and has enough pop culture references to keep any kid scratching their head, while you laugh your tushie off. Oh, and the extra features are nice, too.
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Summary: Pure Fun!
Review: Too bad the consumer from NY didn't see this film for what it is ... pure fun. It's more of an adult flick than for kids with all the hidden jokes and one-liners. It's clever, it's funny, it's just a lot of fun. It's every bit as good as Toy Story. You have to remember Eddie Murphy plays the donkey! If you don't think Eddie Murphy can be hilarious, then you're taking life too seriously!
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Summary: Dead Ducks Claim Bankruptcy
Review: In Antarctica today we experienced the life and times of a frozen solid chicken. The chicken seemed to be having a hard time breathing because of unknown reasons. It also seemed to have a serious case of dandriff because of the flakes of skin that flew ofF when we accindentally slipped when cutting the ice from around him. The Antarctic weather must have been hard on him because when we finally got him free from the ice, he was in very small chunks.
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Summary: Scene Stealer
Review: Every time I watch this DVD, I always look forward to the Gingerbread Man. "Eat me!" had me cracking up for days afterwards. And to see him at the end, had me laughing all night. This is a "Must Own" DVD for everyone.
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Summary: 3 Stars for the graphics.... 1 for the script.
Review: I admit, I was tremendously excited to watch "Shrek" after listening to the immense hype...
However, within a short time into the film I was repulsed by the darkness of the entire script and characters. My first question is: This is supposed to be for kids?
Secondly: People actually find this humor funny? This movie does one thing well: takes the ugliest parts of our culture and makes an extremely sarcastic film that adds no beneficial value to your life. Don't waste your time. Parents: Don't let your children watch this terrible, anything but a children's movie.
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Summary: Shrek . . . for kids?
Review: Hmmmm . . . I get just about any video that comes out for my 3 and 7 yr old. Shrek looked like just another video. Well, it certainly isn't Disney. Most parents expect a certain consistency in animated flicks. Dream Works is is looking for a piece of he giant pie. The up side to this video - Incredible graphics. A little shocking really, from all the other 'kids' videos out there. Obviously they tried to appeal more to adults. The down side to the video - there is a lot of 'toilette' humor and innuendos that are inappropriate for most children. Little songs that seemingly are about to end rhyming in words that most parents wouldn't allow their kids to say and at the last moment changing the words. The princess singing a duet with a bird (cute), but them the bird explodes and she cooks her eggs. My suggestion is that parents should maybe preview this one themselves before showing it to young children.
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Summary: a delight from start to finish
Review: "Shrek" is the ultimate fractured fairy tale, a film that manages to simultaneously honor and lampoon the conventions of its genre without becoming smug or condescending in the process. For while it is sardonic, "Shrek" is never cynical, so confident and assured are its makers in establishing and maintaining just the right tone for a revisionist exercise such as this one. The film certainly conveys a modern sensibility, yet it is a gentle sort of iconoclasm that allows us to enjoy the more conventional aspects of the story (the happily-ever-after ending, for example) even as we are laughing at the obvious absurdities contained within them. The revisionism begins with Shrek himself, as unromantic a figure as has ever earned the title of "hero" in a fairy tale adventure. For Shrek is an ogre, plain and simple, an ugly, cranky, decidedly standoffish beast who wants nothing more than to rid his swamp of all the classic fairy tale figures (Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, The Three Blind Mice et al), who have been consigned there by the dastardly Lord Farquaad, who is attempting to purge his land of all those bothersome folkloric personalities. To earn the deed to his land and thereby have authority to evict the squatters, Shrek agrees to go in search of the beautiful Princess Fiona, rescue her from her dragon-guarded castle, and bring her back for Lord Farquaad to marry (thereby earning the latter the legitimate title of Prince of the Land). Of course, every valiant hero needs his own wisecracking sidekick to accompany him on his journey and Shrek finds his in Donkey, a companion whose sardonic humor serves as both a thorn in the side and as a source of moral inspiration for the unlikely, often socially backward hero. It is hard to overestimate the seemingly boundless originality, ingenuity and creativity that have gone into the making of "Shrek." Here is a film that can truly be enjoyed by viewers of all ages. Children will revel in the glorious animation and the assorted lowbrow comic antics of Shrek, Donkey and even Princess Fiona, while more seasoned adults will delight in the sly in-jokes, bawdy innuendoes and clever anachronisms that pour forth in amazing abundance from the mouths of the characters. There is never a dull moment, since the writers, William Steig and Ted Elliott, and the directors, Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, always seem to have new and clever tricks up their sleeves. Donkey, in particular, is the most amusing and endearing sidekick since the Robin Williams genie in "Aladdin." The script pokes marvelous fun not only at the whole fairy tale mentality, but also at the romanticized conventions of medieval life. There are jousting knights, damsels in distress and an Inquisition-like rounding up of all those caught demonstrating any proclivity for the supernatural and the magical. So much seems to be happening throughout the course of the film that a second viewing is surely in order, just so one can catch all those delicious details that might have slipped by on the first go-round. (The gingerbread man interrogation scene is particularly hilarious). Despite its tone of sardonic playfulness, "Shrek" is, happily, not afraid to indulge in a bit of heartwarming sentimentality at times. The romantic feelings that develop between the Princess and the Ogre are genuine and heartfelt, made palatable by all the flippancy going on around them. In fact, Princess Fiona is very much a modern heroine, shrewd, matter-of-fact and able to roughhouse with the best of the boys this strange land has to offer. Special note must be made of the superb voice work, which is largely responsible for bringing these extraordinarily well-delineated animated characters to life on the screen. Mike Myers (Shrek), Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona), John Lithgow (Lord Farquaad) and, especially, the brilliant Eddie Murphy (Donkey) all turn in bell ringer performances. In every area of the filmmaking process, "Shrek" excels like no general audience film since "Toy Story 2." Like that earlier work, "Shrek" provides audiences of all ages and all types with the joy that comes from seeing a superb idea superbly executed. "Shrek" is an intelligent, witty and imaginative family film. Be sure to catch it. Films like this don't come along very often.
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