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Summary: If you are looking to be cheered up, see Shrek!
Review: This is the only movie I've taken my family to four times. We also have the soundtrack. Sure, there is a little "potty humor" as one reviewer wrote, but so mild that the kids laugh and look at you like "boy, are we getting away with something". This movie has so much heart and feeling, I never would have expected anything close to this. I am NOT an Eddie Murphy fan, and I absolutely LOVE him as Donkey in this movie. I don't know a lot of people who can't identify with some aspect of Donkey's character. This is such a clever movie, even after seeing it so much, there is always something else to see. This definitely isn't Disney, but not everything has to be to be good. Shrek is a keeper, and I can't wait for the video. I almost hope they don't make a sequel. I don't see how they can top this one. It was wonderful.
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Summary: Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg knock one into the bleachers
Review: When a good lady friend insisted that I watch a movie-length animation featuring the party responsible for unleashing the nauseating Austin Powers oeuvre on the world, I cringed inside. For agonizing minutes, I honestly suspected that this friend had lost the critical faculties I'd admired (no, let's face it, fell in love with) in her since we were both in high school, but the film was only a couple of hours... and the friend's company was worth so very much more than a trivial period of discomfort, so I went with her. I needn't have worried. Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg labored, like the proverbial elephant, for two years and brought forth - ahh, the heck with that metaphor, they made a fine movie. Much finer than I expected, or given Myers' dismal track record after the first "Wayne's World" movie, had any reason to expect. The movie Shrek both inhabits the fairy tale genre and sends it up without a trace of self-consciousness. Myers is wonderful as the gruff, unapologetically gross ogre with a Scots brogue (imagine Sean Connery in his latter, one-accent-fits-all-acting, decrepit digestive system days, dealing with the aftermath of too much haggis and McEwan's) and Eddie Murphy turns in a solid supporting performance as his wise-cracking donkey sidekick.
John Lithgow reprises his self-absorbed egotist persona which has served him so well in his other recent work and bends it adroitly to the needs of his current role as the nasty autarch of the fairy-tale kingdom, and Cameron Diaz is refreshing as the much-besought fairy-tale princess imbued with a healthy dollop of 21st century gurl attitude. The other supporting characters, down to the wind-up singing musicbox dolls which greet visitors to the kingdom, duchy, whatever with an insanely funny recitation of its laws, are also well-crafted and hugely entertaining. I came away from the film with sidestitches from laughing. I shouldn't really have been surprised - when Spielberg sets himself a task, even as seemingly trivial a job as an animated feature, he almost always delivers a benchmark product, and this is no exception. And the ending... well, the ending is something special, and quite unexpected. You may have to watch the show a few times to totally appreciate the ending, but I won't spoil it for you. It's just a great ending, trust me. So why did I hold back the fifth star? Because the plot did seem to drag (Steven, Steeeeeveeeennn, you of all people!); because parodies, even masterful ones, necessarily have a degree of triteness to them (I'm waiting to be proven wrong on that), and because it wasn't enough for Mike Myers to not be as bad as he was in the Austin Powers films... he could have turned in a better job of acting than he did, but I can't give him better than solid "B" grades for his job in "Shrek" (even though I was relieved that he chose to climb out of the sewer his spy parodies inhabit). I owe my friend many thanks (over the many I already owe her) for insisting we see this film... her judgment in these matters remains unvarnished. Thanks, Fiona. Watch "Shrek." Take the kids. Buy the DVD, as it's unlikely that mere videotape will suffice to reproduce the whole computer-generated viewing experience that is "Shrek." In "Shrek," Steven Spielberg has finally produced the "killer app" for DVD technology, the movie that makes it worth the hundred dollars or so for most people to buy a DVD player if they don't already have one.
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Summary: Family Film
Review: A great film for the parents and the kids to watch. Funny, cute and adoriable are the first 3 words that come to my mind thinking about this movie. It also sends a good message. People shouldn't judge you by what you look like; they should judge you from the inside. I think that is a good message to send along. Try it! Buy it rent. Oh.. and make sure you don't laugh to many times from watchign this funny movie.
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Summary: Simply Wonderful !
Review: Truly well done movie. Warm, funny, and extremely entertaining!
Both me and my 3 yr. old son were able to enjoy this together. Although, he didn't get some of the jokes, he still loved the movie and sat for the entire time just totally amused! I'd highly recommend this one.
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Summary: A Fairy Tale for the Whole Family
Review: Shrek is a film I enjoyed watching just as much as my 11 year old and 9 year old children did. The main character in this computer animated fairy tale is an ogre named Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers). He's not handsome, he's not friendly and he's not happy. But his life changes when he sets off to rescue a princess from the mean and conceited Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow). Accompanied by a witty donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy), he outsmarts a fire-breathing dragon and tolerates a strong-willed princess (voiced by Cameron Diaz). When he falls in love with the princess he faces his greatest challenge and that is to feel worthy of her love. There's a transformation after they kiss which is the big surprise in this movie. From its "Once Upon a Time" beginning to its "Happily Ever After" ending, Shrek will warm your heart, tickle your funny bone and remind us all of the true meaning of beauty. Keep in mind that Shrek is rated PG and there are scenes that might be scary for young children.
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Summary: Good For Most Audiences
Review: This light hearted tale will please both children and adults. Eddie Murohy's humor is funny without being overly crude. I admit its hard to look at Shrek for an entire movie. However, action packed and entertaining this movie surely is.
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Summary: AT ITS BEST!!!
Review: Poor Shrek... all he wants is to be left alone, sadly for shrek the evil king has other ideas. With an abhorrence for any fairy tale creature the evil king has banished them all to another region... this region just happens to be Shrek's backyard. On a mission to clear his swamp of the excess baggage Shrek encounters a talking donkey (masterfully played by Eddie Murphy) an over romantic princess (played well by Cameron Diaz, even if her accent does tend to dissapear and reappear at the strangest moments) and a huge manage of other delightful characters.
This movie is fabulous. The computer graphics are so real that they jump off the screen. The characters emotions, expressions and mannerisms are so real that you can't help but get involved and find them endearing and loveable. The cast it perfect, from Mike Myers to John Lithgow and the script is genius. This is a movie that you and your children will LOVE, your children will love the fairy tale characters and the animations and any adult will find the "grown up" humor to be hilarious. My only warning is that this isn't a movie (even though animated) for small children, they just won't get it. The dialogue is very adult and sometimes raunchy and even the animation won't make the story clear for small children. This movie had my family and I in stitches I guarantee it'll do the same for you, it is a total keeper and a great film for your collection.
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Summary: SHREK ROCKS!
Review: When I first went to see Shrek at the movie theater, I was expecting the same stale and unentertaining fairy tales that Disney seems to pump out constantly. But when I left that theater, my sides were aching from laughter. Not only did the film teach a cute little value that gave me that good feeling, there was humor for children, teenagers, and adults all the same. The storyline was engaging and entertaining, the soundtrack is playing in my house as we speak, and Shrek is definetly a character I won't soon forget. SHREK ROCKS!
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Summary: Great "Buddy" Film
Review: People don't like Shrek? Look at my right eye twitchin'! Do you like THE PRINCESS BRIDE? M.P.& THE HOLY GRAIL? Does the mere mention of a line from one of those two films make you giggle? Laugh hysterically? Do you value that? Me too. Get ready for another one of those quotable fairy tale movies that will have you drying your eyes, running to the bathroom, and "Mak'n'waffles!" Eddie Murphy adds a beautiful foil character to the film, allowing us to grow to love a green, snail-eating farter like the Big S. He (Murphy) does not save the film, as he does MULAN, because the film is bigger than he is. He fits. And fits well. And Cameron Diaz as the Princess? Priceless! I've gotta go preorder!
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Summary: Very funny adult-themed movie...
Review: A great movie with clever writting, and a sarcastic tone. It works quite well. Not a Disney-esqe film, by any stretch. Please don't go into the theatre expecting that. I brought my 3 year old son to watch it, and all during the movie, I felt a little uneasy about exposing him to some things in it. The donkey curses one or two times, and Shrek says "Jack***" a couple of times, played for laughs. A fairly large amount of "bloodless" violence is also involved. Face it, this is a PG film, and parents should heed the rating. Watch it first without the kids. If you want to show them after you screen it, believe me, you won't mind sitting through it again.
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