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Shrek (2001)
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William Steig's delightfully fractured fairy tale is the right stuff for this computer-animated adaptation full of verve and wit. Our title character (voiced by Mike Myers) is an agreeable enough ogre who wants to live his days in peace. When the diminutive Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) evicts local fairy-tale creatures (including the now-famous Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and the Gingerbread Man), they settle in the ogre's swamp and Shrek wants answers from Farquaad. A quest of sorts starts for Shrek and his new pal, a talking donkey (Eddie Murphy), where battles have to be won and a princess (Cameron Diaz) must be rescued from a dragon lair in...
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Shrek Movie Review by Zara  (3/12/2007) |
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Any little girl worth her cookies has been taught to buy into the fairy tale machine. That one which pumps out loving tales of princesses in distress and wonderful knights in shining armour who come to save them.
All those little girls eventually grow up and realize that the men who fancy themselves knights are usually...
(complete Shrek review by Zara)
| Shrek Movie Review by Luz (7/8/2007) |
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This is absolutely my favorite kids' movie ever. It's not sweet and sappy like most of them tend to be... instead, it's rough around the edges and full of personality! It's daring and brilliant. Sure, the humor's a little crude at times, but it's nothing most kids haven't heard before and really the worst word is "ass"...
(complete Shrek review by Luz)
Ah, the original!
What a shocker it was when it came out, how funny and original!
They take the plethora of children's fables and fairy tales and utilize them for the story of an unlikeable ogre who gets suckered into saving a princess who has a lot more in common with him than he would like to think.
Eddie Murphy...
(complete Shrek review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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