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Shrek

Shrek

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great DVD
Review: The DVD is even better than the movie itself. Don't get me wrong, the movie is great, but the added features (movie clips, behind the scenes, karaoke party, dvd-rom) really make this DVD a must have purchase.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good, but plot isn't that engaging
Review: Shrek wasn't a bad movie, however it didn't live up to my expectations. After waiting in line for 10 minutes to get into the movie, a sitting in an extremely crowded theater, I was anxious to see the movie.

"Shrek" strarted out really funny. There were many fantasy characters being locked away such as snow white and the twelve dwarfs, fairies, etc. The donkey (eddie m.) tries to get away and runs into Shrek. The humans try and catch the donkey, but Shrek is right there and they are scared and run away. The donkey and Shrek eventually become friends ( even after Shrek repeated many times to the donkey that he wasn't looking for any friends). The King of the land orders that Shrek's land will be taken away and the only way for Shrek to save it is to go on an adventure to save a princess (cameron d.) From here the hole story seems to slow down and not much happens. You can probably imagine...

Well the movie was still pretty good, and I recommend you to see it. (There is also a small twist at the end; I won't tell you what it is :)

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Ummm......Hmmm.....
Review: I don't see why everybody thought this was such a great accomplishment! It really was not very good at all. It sort of twisted on and on only to reveal a very predictable ending. A real dissapointmet.
If you want to see something good, see monsters inc. It is definately worth seeing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Shrek is the Best
Review: I am the mother of 2 year old twins and they love it. My daughter will pick up the remote and throw it at me if she sees anything other than her big green ogre. I know it's very difficult to wear out a disk, but I think that we are well on our way. The twins especially like the music and love to dance to it. I highly recommend this for all ages! Enjoy!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Shrek
Review: This is a classic comedy! A must buy that will keep you laughing all the night through tracking down memories of this fabulous movie. Buy it now for a cheap price to give your funny bones a wriggle and your cheeks a jiggle.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A movie for kids of all ages.
Review: What can you say? There aren't may films that are as entertaining as this one for kids or for adults.
The kids will love the comic like storyline and will recognise the fairytale characters throughout the film, the adults will remember the nursery rhymes of old - Do you know the muffin man? and anjoy the satirical humour - If I dropped one donkey you wouldn't be living!
This has to be one of the funniest and best made films of all time, a future classic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: in a word..."meh"
Review: I am a big fan of CG-films, and I admire the leaps that each new one makes over the previous ones, but this film just didn't cut it for me. I know I may be going over some people's heads here, but the walk cycles on some of the characters were just annoyingly dull. I expected creativity to be dripping from this film, oozing out of the celluloid, but it just felt uninspired.

The plot was pretty much warmed over fairy tale with an anti-Disney stripe (which apparently appeals to many people, but not this reviewer) and the animation really didn't blow my mind the way I expected it to. The fart and "pee-pee poo-poo" jokes got old VERY quickly, and when you strip away all that, all you're left with some fairly impressive voice talent. The problem is, the actors really didn't get to do much. Cameron Diaz pretty much reprised her "Something About Mary" performance, Eddie Murphy brought out his "Mushu" characterization from "Mulan," John Lithgow played a short Dick Solomon from "Third Rock from the Sun" and Mike Myers phoned in with an extended "Fat Bastard" schtick from Austin Powers 2. What's more, I swear all four of these actors' voices were tinkered with in the computer, and the sound just didn't quite work.

I know this is a lot of nitpicking, but I walked out of this movie feeling COMPLETELY underwhelmed and wanting my $8 back. If shoddy craftsmanship, lack of a decent storyline, an overabundance of fart jokes, and a half-hearted attempt at computer animation don't bother you, by all means, watch this movie. If you're holding out for something better, go watch Toy Story 2 or Monsters Inc. or something that reflects the effort and craftsmanship that went into it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A good movie
Review: Make sure to check out the karaoke party after the movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The Most Overrated, Dissappointing Movie of the Year
Review: When I recently told someone that I had not seen Shrek, they scolded me and told me to go see "the funniest animated movie ever!" Well I'd heard all the talk so I decided to rent it and see what the hype was all about. I started to watch this movie and waited for something funny to happen. For a joke, or something, anything to make me laugh. But soon it was the end of the movie and I found that I had laughed maybe five times. I laughed in Saving Private Ryan more than I did in this movie. I came away from this movie with a feeling of disappointment. If you want a funny movie see a reall classic like Toy Story or Wayne's World. Mybe I'm wrong and I'm just missing all the jokes of the movie, but as a person who thinks of himself as a lover of comedy, I think the fault may lie with the movie this time. I came into this movie with anticipation as well as sceptisicm and came away with disappointment and a feeling that I just wasted valuble time I could have used to watch Wayne's World for the 500th time.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An upside down fairy tail....
Review: At first, I wasn't sure that I would like this movie because it wasn't like the cartoons I am used to seeing. The only reason I wanted to see the movie at all was the advertisements on television.

I was surprised that the Ogre, Shrek, liked any one at all. In the beginning, he didn't seem to like himself or his talk-all- the-time donkey friend much less all the characters from every other fairy tail relocated to his swamp. Well, once a loner always a loner.

John Lithgow played his character well. What a shame his character only chose a wife because she was a beautiful princess by day and all the others were spoken for except her. It's a shame someone with a small stature couldn't see past the bridge of his upturned nose. Didn't he have the nerve to jilt this princess just because she wasn't what he thought she was? He only wanted her to stay in power. Love?? Ha!

Granted, some of the scenes in this movie had me laughing so hard it made me sore, but that didn't happen too often. That's why I recommend renting this movie before deciding to buy it. There is definitely no comparison of "Shrek" to other Disney movies like "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast".


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