Shrek

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Summary: Whats all the hype about?
Review: Now this movie was ok, I never knew that movies were just about special effects and big hollywood names, sure this is a good kids movie but then again kids like everything you take them to see as long as it's an animation. ... dont get me wrong the animation is superb but that alone doesn't make a film legendary, the story is actually pretty lame, ... Shreks ending was terrible, ... some scenes in the movie are good but the ending was not, to my dissapointment, I wasted about an hour and a half trying to watch this film and get what? An ending like that, ...a bunch of animals and creatures start dancing around ... that makes a great ending? I don't think so, this the most overhyped movie in cinema history! ... most of people who enjoy these types of movies are children and their parents obivously if you see your kid happy you'll wind up saying the movie was great, in a very small nutshell, a simple waste of time.

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Summary: Great Fun, Despite the Hollywood Hypocrisy
Review: "Shrek" has been hailed as the greatest thing in animation since sliced bread, if sliced bread had ever been animated. "Shrek" has been hyped to death and won the first ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Make no mistake, this movie is great fun. Mike Myers is great fun as Shrek, the ogre with the Greta Garbo complex, whose quiet existence in his swamp is disrupted by Lord Farquaad, voiced in hissably evil style by John Lithgow, who has evicted all the local fairy-tale creatures and dumped them in Shrek's swamp. Shrek and his unwelcome new side-kick a talking donkey, voiced hysterically Eddie Murphy), reach a deal with Farquaad to fetch the short prince a bride in the form of Princess Fiona, voiced by Cameron Diaz, who they must rescue from a dragon's lair, complete with fire-breathing dragon.

All well and good, and lot's of fun is to be had by all. Parents should be warned that this film has a harder edge than Disney's typical animation, and the "PG" rating is well-deserved.

But there are problems with this film. First, there's the troubling Hollywood hypocrisy. This film's laudable message is not to judge other's on their appearance. Great. Swell. So what do we have? A villian with a Napoleon Complex, and a slew of short jokes.

Also, a great deal of the humor in this film comes from the skewering of Mouse, Inc., not that there's anything wrong with lampooning Mickey & Co. The jokes are great, the problem is that there are so many Disney gags that the film gets sidetracked at times, disrupting the pacing of the film. One get's the feeling that a lot of the praise this film has received has been because there has finally been a legitimate animated film produced by someone other than Disney.

Despite these flaws and cautions, "Shrek" is a whole lot of fun. Eddie Murphy steals the show as Donkey. Mike Myers gives Shreck a Scottish accent, and Cameron Diaz has fun with her role of Princess Fiona. While the Disney bashing detracts from the flow of the film, the jokes are hysterical and the satire is dead-on, and well deserved.

This DVD contains a number of nice goodies, such as the kaoroke number and some storyboards presentations of deleted scenes, and it has a fun and enjoyable soundtrack.

I reccomend this film despite the flaws, as the fun factor for "Shrek" is as big as an ogre.

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Summary: Wonderfully funny modern-day fairytale
Review: Although marketed as a kids' movie, SHREK is one of those films with layers. (Much like an onion, or an ogre...) Our antihero is a reclusive green scary ogre (Shrek, voiced by the excellent Mike Myers) who lives in a swamp. His sidekick, an enthusiastic talking donkey (Eddie Murphy) who has decided that Shrek is his best friend. Shrek, unused to people trying to befriend him instead of running away in terror, reluctantly lets Donkey stay with him. When his swamp is invaded by an assortment of fairy-tale creatures, a deeply annoyed Shrek is determined to talk to Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow), who has evicted these creatures from Duloc. Unfortunately, the only person who's willing to accompany him on this journey is the ever-eager Donkey, and so they set off, Shrek regretting this decision every time Donkey opens his mouth. ("The trick is getting him to shut up," he laments.)

On arriving in Duloc, Shrek finds himself caught in the middle of a competition of knights to see which one will earn the "right" to rescue a sleeping Princess Fiona from a castle. ("Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make," the vertically-challenged Lord Farquaad, who wishes to marry her, tells them.) He ends up being chosen to go on this mission, and in return, he will get his swamp back.

In one of the "awww!" moments of the movie, Shrek manoeuvres Donkey across the rickety bridge to the castle by shaking it until Donkey makes his own way over, rather than turn back. It's a perfect example of how fond Shrek has become of his friend, although he would never admit it. On finding the princess, he unceremoniously drags her out of there. Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) is not impressed. She was expecting a more romantic rescue, and is disappointed that the helmeted Shrek won't even recite an epic poem or a sonnet for her. ("A limerick?" she suggests in desperation.)

"You didn't slay the dragon??" she asks in horror as the fire-breathing monster comes after her and Shrek. As it turns out, though, the dragon is female, lonely and looking for love - which she finds in the form of Donkey. He isn't too pleased about this. "I'm an asthmatic!" he pleads.

As the three journey back to Duloc, Fiona grows past her initial horror at Shrek's appearance, while her lack of helplessness is shown as she successfully fights off an attacker. The Merry Men show up, of course, and do a bit of Riverdance. Shrek and Fiona blow up reptiles and hand them to one another, walking along romantically with their animal balloons. Donkey and Shrek's late-night conversations point out Shrek's hidden loneliness and isolation. "They judge me before they even know me," he says sadly. And how could a beautiful princess like Fiona ever love such a hideous beast as him?

But the beauty of this film is that these misfits - the ugly ogre, the lonely dragon, the talking donkey, the cursed princess - suit each other perfectly. It plays with the stereotypical fairy tale characters (lord, ogre, princess) and turns them on their head, while giving us a happy ending that tells us that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, and that love and friendship are wonderful things to have. So the moral of the story is . . . ogres are really lovely people, talking donkeys are fun to have around, and if you're an evil diminutive ruler of a kingdom, you might just get eaten by a dragon.

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Summary: Not just a kids movie.
Review: Any age at all will definitely enjoy and absolutely love this movie! For the price of the DVD you get a great deal, tons and i mean tons of special features. The movie itself is so much better than your classic Disney movies of Cinderella or whatever. Fun happy movie that will leave you in a great mood every time you'll view this classic.

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Summary: 5 Special Hidden Features
Review: 1. Go to the special features disk on either disk one or two and highlight main menu. From here press up and the Gingerbread Man's gum drop buttons are highlighted. Press enter and Shrek will pop up and give you meaningless info about the movie. Keep selecting the buttons over and over to see all of the facts.

2. To access the Karaoke sing along on the main menu of disc 2 select the Music Note in the upper left hand corner of the screen. after you click on it Donkey will fly in the air and you'll see all the characters singing abunch of songs! (This is the same Karaoke that is easily available on disc 1. It also comes up if you watch past the credits on disc 2)

3. To see a small but still interesting DTS clip on Shrek Disc 2, simply set your player to play Title 11.

4. At Main Menu push up to Highlight DWK. This will show more bonus material like Favorite Scenes, Shreks Music Room and The Game Swamp which has three more games. If I recall, this only shows up after you've watched the movie through?

5. If you surf the titles, you can see that in the titles 22 and 23 there are two videos, one from Baja Men and the other one is the video that Smash Mouth made for the movie

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Summary: a twisted fairy tale
Review: The movie I am reviewing is Shrek, with Eddie Murphy as the donkey and Mike Myers as Shrek. Another product you can compare Shrek to is the traditional fairytale, Sleeping Beauty.In Shrek, Princess Fiona knows she is going to be rescued and has how she is going to be rescued all figured out. It is different in Sleeping Beauty though. Sleeping Beauty has no idea that she is going to be rescued, much less how she is going to be rescued. She gets rescued properly, when on the other hand Shrek doesn't even care about what Fiona is saying. They're both the same when it comes to challenges, because they both have them. In Sleeping Beauty there is the rose field, and in Shrek there is the rather traditional dragon.
DreamWorks, the maker of the movie Shrek, has produced several other movies. For example, Antz and Chicken Run are products of DreamWorks. The voices of the main characters are Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and John Lithgow as Prince Farquaad. Mike Myers plays Austin Powers in the movies Austin Powers I and II. Cameron Diaz, who is the voice of Princess Fiona, also plays in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary. Eddie Murphy is not only hilarious in Shrek, but also in Trading Places and Docter Dolittle. Another movie John Lithgow is in is 3rd Rock from the Sun.
One part in the movie that was funny was when Shrek and Donkey got to the castle bridge and Shrek asked Donkey if he was scared. But, Donkey said that he was just a little uncomfortable about being on a rickety bridge over a boiling lake of lava. Another good part in Shrek is when they go to Duloc and they see the puppets. Then I also like when the camera takes the picture, and Shrek and Donkey are just standing there with their mouths open.
I would suggest this movie for adults and kids with a sense of humor. Also, I would suggest it for people who understand all the meanings of a word. People who know that there are different meanings for a word.

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Summary: This movie was OK .
Review: These are my rating and why for the movie Shrek.......

Color:9/10
The color was nicely done but there were very tiny parts of the movie that they could've done just a tad bit better.
Structure:3/10
The structure of the movie was poorly done . It might have been funny and all but the Theme kept changing .
Music:6/10
There was really no point of having music in Shrek . They didn't need music on this kind of a movie .
Voice Acting:8/10
The voices almost matched the characters but it somehow didn't go right into the puzzle of the character .
Sound Effects:8/10
The sound effects were pretty good but on some parts of the movie , the sound effects sounded fake .
Cinematography:7/10
The movie had some OK scenery that goes in with the conflict but in the dragon's castle , the scenery didn't like even move at all when the dragon stomped on the ground and when it blew fire , it didn't make any burnt marks or anything .
Costume Designery:6/10(dirt , aging , ect.)
The costumes became OK . Whenever someone got dirty , there would only be some parts dirty and some parts sqeaky clean .
Emotional Impact:8/10
The emotional impact was pretty good . When there were funny parts , you laugh , but there were some parts I did not think were either sad , funny , or exciting .
Overall:(55/80)~~~>68.5% D+

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Summary: I've gotta get me one of them donkeys!!
Review: As you may have guessed, Donkey is my favorite character!

The movie starts out with Shrek's (a nasty green Ogre) property getting invaded by townspeople with pitchforks and torches ready to bring Shrek in for a nice reward. Lord Farquaad is handing out rewards to anyone who turns in a fairytale creature (i.e., the 7 dwarfs, the 3 bears, witches, talking donkeys...). Donkey won't talk for the kingsmen, so ends up getting away, until his former owner knocks over a fairy in a cage and donkey can fly. Only then does he start talking and the fairy dust wears off and he comes falling from the sky. The kingsmen run after him, and Donkey hides behind Shrek.

After Donkey annoys the hell out of Shrek enough, Shrek lets Donkey stay at his house overnight, outside. While in the middle of dinner, Shrek has some uninvited guests, all of the fairy tale creatures. He and Donkey set off to find Lord Farquaad and get them all off of his land.

Well, that's a good starter, anyways. And like I said, if anybody knows where I can get one of those Eddie Murphy Donkies I would appreciate it!!

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Summary: "No! Not the Buttons! Not my Gumdrop buttons!!"
Review: Shrek is a mordern day fairy tale with a big, smelly, ugly orge as its hero, and a wise-cracking talking donkey as his sidekick.
Shrek (Mike Myers) lives in a swamp alone. All that changes when fairy tale creatures are at Shrek's door. Shrek learns that Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) has forced the fairy tale creatures into Shrek's swamp. Shrek goes to see Lord Farquaad (with Donkey, Eddie Murphy) and tells him to get rid of all the creatures in his swamp. Lord Farquaad sends Shrek on a quest to rescue the beatiful Princess Fiona (Cameron Dias) from a castle guarded by a fierce dragon.
A great comedy!

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Summary: This is Awesome
Review: This movie is great!! The voices of the characters are perfect. Eddie Murphy is great for playing donkey and adds a lot of humor to the movie. Also with this movie you find thier is a lot more to friends than you think. I rate this an A++ and it is well worth your time and money. Every time you watch it you discover something u've never noticed before.