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Summary: PG or what?
Review: I wish the lines for ratings could be a bit clearer. Here you have a movie needed parental supervision but because of references to sex it should have been PG-13.
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Summary: Myers & Murphy Are Excellent in Family Fare Film
Review: This is not ordinarily my kind of movie as it is a bit too family fare oriented for my tastes. However, if this is your favorite kind of movie, it is certainly well done and Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy are terrific. Myers is the voice of Shrek, the ogre, and he really gets into it and gives it all he's got. I haven't seen Murphy in years but he was made to play this donkey pal of the ogre's. The story is a fairy tale with Shrek going to retrieve the heroine to marry villain John Lithgow. Shrek begins to fall in love with her himself but can a beautiful princess fall in love with an ogre? There's even a surprising twist involving the princess and her great beauty. If you are looking for a film which the whole family can see together, this is it. I think this will also make a nice DVD purchase for families with children.
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Summary: Shove the moral right down my throat....
Review: While most people seem to like this movie, I found it to be much of a dud for myself. The movie starts out great with many funny moments. However, after the princess is saved, the movie just seems to drag. Then comes the movie's moral: "don't judge by appearances." It's nice and all, but it seemed to get shoved at you during every turn. This is a movie I would show kids, but for adults it could go either way (love/hate). The animation and acting was great; the story needed help.
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Summary: A Must See!
Review: I never even heard first of this movie when it came out, and a friend suggested it and I loved it. It has a great cast of actors. Mike Myers plays Shrek and he does a wonderful job. Co starring are Eddie Murphy as the donkey and Cameron Diaz as Pricess Fiona. It starts off that Shrek has some of his land stolen and he goes to Lord Farquuad(John Lithgow)and he makes a deal with him... he gets his land back if Shrek will go on a journey and get the pricess that Farquuad wants. Shrek saves the princess but something unexpected happens.. he starts to fall in love with her, but doesn't believe she will love him back. This is a film definately worth seeing!!
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Summary: Captive Audience
Review: That's what I was recently on a transatlantic flight, with "Shrek" the in-flight movie. While my friends had seen this movie and raved about it, it just didn't appeal to me enough to want to go see it myself. Now, buckled into my seat, I saw "Shrek"--and was pleasantly surprised. Shrek is an ogre who finds a host of fairy tale characters deposited in his swamp. When he goes off to complain, the ruling prince cuts a deal with him: Go and rescue a princess for me to marry, and the swamp is yours. Accompanied by a talking donkey, Shrek manages to save the princess, and as so often happens with proxy marriages, the princess and this unlikely "ambassador" become interested in each other. A commonplace story line, really, but what puts "Shrek" on the map is its outstanding animation and its homage to the baby boomer generation, such as a take-off on "The Dating Game" in an early segment. Most tiresome feature: Too many jokes about flatulence.
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Summary: From one Shrekkie to another!
Review: This movie has been the brights star in a long time. Some may find it merely funny, but I found it hilarious. Having seen this movie at least four times, all I can say is that it gets better and better. You will miss many of the one liners that happen because you will be laughing too hard to hear the next ones. It is refreshing and lively. You come to love Shrek, the onion-like ogre, and you realize that for all those "beautiful people" fairy tales this one is about the non-"beautiful" people that we all really are. To be loved for one's real self and not what everyone else expects is a true goal. Hurray for the everyday person and being just who we are and proud of it. Eddie Murphy is wonderful and his humor is great.
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Summary: Shrek a Great Movie
Review: Shrek was about an Ogar named Shrek who lives alone in his cottage. The towns people capture him and ............ See the movie to find out more
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Summary: A MUST SEE!!! ENTERTAINING FAMILY FUN
Review: Mike Myers does it again. Funny and enjoyable. Careful not to choke on your popcorn from laughing.
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Summary: Great for adults as well as kids
Review: I grumbled about going to see this movie, but I took my goddaughter and had more fun than she did I think! I think a lot of the humor was geared more toward adults than children. There were some things I was falling all over myself laughing at, and my goddaughter was just sitting there smiling like "what is the joke here?" There is a great moral ending to this movie especially in a society today when everyone has to be size 6 and perfect. It was just an all around good family movie.
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Summary: Fun, but without the formative power of 'Pinnochio' et al.
Review: It is, of course, Dreamworks' prerogative to mock the cultural superiority of its animation rival, and the Dimco sequence here is a funny, much-needed dig at that company's Oceanic ambitions, as well as more recent celluloid excresences, such as 'Gladiator'. I am even willing to overlook the hypocrisy of one giant globalising corporate company taking moral potshots at another. The fact remains that, by removing all the things that made the best Disney films so potent, unforgettable markers in almost every adult's personal development (archetypal fairy-tale narratives with recognisable, but mythic characters we could identify with), and replacing them with a few superficial jokes and politically correct caricatures, 'Shrek' foregoes the resonance that might have made it memorable and important for generations to come. It is also far too long, and not nearly as visually 'stunning' as the propaganda suggests.
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