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Summary: I haven't outgrown fairy tales yet!
Review: I truly watching this movie with my family. There was something it it for everyone, and the music is great!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I saw this movie first in the theaters and I absolutely loved it. So much so, that I had to buy the special edition. It is a great movie to own for kids and adults alike. It is funny and has some adult humor that kids won't get that I loved. Buy this one if any!
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Summary: Beauty & the Beast with a twist
Review: This has got to be one of my favorite animated movies, up qith Antz, Beauty & the Best and Mulan. I look for movies with strong female characters, or at least strong individuals. Shrek contains both.Shrek is an unlikely hero, an antisocial [troll|ogre] who lives in a swamp away from people. He doesn't have any friends, but soon his lonely swamp becomes home to dozens of fairytale creatures that have been pushed out of the rest of the world. Similarly, he is pushed into helping them out, along with the help of a donkey sidekick. He ends up saving a beautiful princess in a tower. Sounds pretty typical right? Well, the princess isn't exactly typical. She likes his sense of humor and seems to be pretty laidback herself - nothing like they'd expect from a princess. He ends up following in love with her, and vice versa. I don't want to spoil the movie for you, so I won't give you the whole plot. Let's just say things don't end up how you expect. I left the theater with a big smile on my face - the movie ended even better than I could have expected.
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Summary: For all ages
Review: I watched this movie at home thinking that is would bre like one of those Disney movie where you know whats gonna happen and it'll be all mushy and corny and "perfect" but it wasnt and thats great. I'm sick of movies like that. This movie will make anyone with a sense of humor laugh. I know that because my dad barely laughs at movies especially PG movies but I tell you that he was laughing which brightened my day. This movie is great and , unique. this is exactly what the movie business needed
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Summary: Funniest Movie of the year!!
Review: The first time you see this movie you will expect a childs movie but after watching the first 15 minutes you will se you were mistaken. It's cute and insanely funny at the same time! The graphics in this movie are awe inspiring, especialy when you find out they had to dum them down to make them more cartoony! You will not be dissapointed with it! Also check out the extended ending!
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Summary: This movie Had a great moral
Review: This movie taught me a lot of things...1)No one likes ugly people..only other ugly people. 2)Ugly people tend to be poor and introverted and have bad social skills. 3)It also taught me to go ahead and marry someone you dont like in order to get back at someone...why not? Its completely reversible. Anyway...buy this movie for your kids and make sure they are aware of the morals it teaches.
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Summary: Enjoyable at any age.
Review: I'm a great fan of light fiction, particularly clever fiction, so when our gang collected at a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner, and we settled in for the usual low key after dinner recovery period in front of the TV set, I voted for the Shrek film on DVD. Although I hadn't gone to see it in the theaters because it was a "kids" film, I had "broken down" and purchased the DVD on the recommendation of a friend's daughter (Grace, aged 8 years), and loved it. So did the friends with whom I watched it at Thanksgiving. As with any successful comedy, whether cartoon or human driven, the story has various layers to it, appealing in different ways to different age groups. For those of us who have grown up on works like Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and other irreverent fare, the punch in the eye to standard fairytales is enjoyable. (Early on Shrek tears out the "and she was awakened by true loves' first kiss" page out of his book in disgust and uses it as toilet tissue!) Younger children will probably love the cute little donkey character, young girls the Zena like princess, young boys the mud bath of the ogre, etc. As usual, Eddie Murphy does a superlative job as the "annoying, miniature beast of burden." As with his little dragon character, Moushu in the Disney film Mulan, he is both dear and slightly idiotic at the same time. He has all the genius for delivery that Robin Williams exhibited in Aladden, but brings with it his own style, a more direct and more connected sense, that one finds in all of his work. His was by far my favorite character. I hope he does lots of other voice over parts like this in the future; he's truly gifted. Mike Meyers is the real surprise, at least to me. I've only seen bits and pieces of Austin Powers in trailers and was not impressed. When I was told that it was he who played the central character Shrek, I have to admit I was impressed. Maybe CGI characters are his forte! One of the facits of the work I liked best was the clear message--lost entirely, I might point out, in the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast of which Shrek might be considered a modern day version--that happily ever after, love, and happiness do not come packaged in a pretty or handsome face. Although the Disney movie pointed out that, as the old adage has it, "handsome is as handsome does," it botched the works by changing the beast into a handsome prince as his reward for being a person worthy of love. Any school dance wall-flower knows for a fact that this never happens. Shrek makes it clear that, while a person may not be what the rest of the world considers attractive, they are beautiful as long as the one they love sees them as so. In fact, the movie makes several points important for adults as well as children to learn. The visual effects of the film were impressive. The hair, facial affect, and movement of the characters was very real. The movements and habits of the little donkey kept reminding me of my great danes Courageous and Tempo. Expressions on faces created a sense of person and mental and emotional content that most cartoon characters lack or can only approximate by physically "aping" human behaviors. The humans were not quite as real as some of the central individuals in Final Fantasy, for instance, but the fact that they had to interact with totally make believe characters in a believable manner, made this less an inadequacy and more a means of promoting the story. In fact, the facial affect of those in Shrek were far superior to Final Fantasy despite their overall less "real" appearence. Probably the most impressive innovations in the film were in environmental design. Many of the effects were very realistic, even more so than the much awaited monument to CGI, Final Fantasy. The double DVD edition, in addition to providing the wide screen and the pan and scan versions of the film, has several special features. My favorite was the "out takes," that is the computer bloopers that produced bizarre results. This is definitely a wonderful addition to a family library of videos or DVDs and would make a lovely holiday gift for almost any age group.
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Summary: SHREK ROCKS
Review: Shrek is a wonderfully delighting humor movie from Dreamworks. It is basically about an onion-like ogre (Mike Myers) who gets fairy tale creatures dumped into his home swamp by the nasty Lord Farquaad. (John Lithgow) He and an annoying talking donkey (Eddie Murphy) go to Lord Farquaad to get the creatures off Shrek's land. But Lord Farquaad has something else in mind... He wants Shrek to go and rescue a princess named Fiona, (Cameron Diaz)and then he would return the swamp to Shrek. Shrek accepts, and he and Donkey... wait a minute! (...)
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Summary: I LOVE SHREK
Review: this movie is the BEST movie around! i love the part where the little gingerbread guy's like "do u know the muffin man" and lord farquadd's all "the muffin man?" omg i love it oh and the part with robin hood and his marry men! and the part with the puppets- please keep off of our grass, shine your shoes, wipe your...face! hahaha! oooooh and at the end if u have the dvd it's shrek's kareoke(sp??) dance party and lord farquadd's like "staying alive!staying alive!" wow wow this is a MUST OWN movie, i've seen it 5 times(and one time in spanish!)and i still LOVE it! so, buy it cause i did and i love it so much!SHREK ROX!hmmm.. i'm not really 12 but i don't have a amazon.com screen thingy dingy but i HAD to write a review on the best movie around well, besides shawshank redemption(rock on) and better off dead (go 80's movies) but it's up there!
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Summary: A beautifully made movie with a SICKO message!
Review: The characters are so amazingly realistic they could be almost live-action, especially Princess Fiona. But I feel sad for her fate as well as Shrek's. In the very beginning, Shrek was a HAPPY loner who enjoyed leading his solitary life out in the swamp and Princess Fiona was such a cool, self-confident young woman who could do some dazzling ninja stunts. But they both SUDDENLY begin needing love and a domestic life together and there was that pesky old donkey to push it along. What's more, the poor girl suddenly turns into a P-E-R-F-E-C-T wifey for the dirty, crass, and disgusting ogre who eats fecal matter and human eyeballs! What's more...once a beautiful young human lady who can look out for herself, Fiona is now a dowdy old trollop with weight and self-esteem problems. And...and she's also destined to carry bratty little Shreks of her own.....*shudder* So please, ENOUGH of the Disneyesque politically-correct happy-family sentimentality that NO ONE can lead a happily single life without the need to be flattered and fawned over despite your ugly, frowsy appearance! Sheesh.
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