Mike Myers was perfect, Eddie Murphy was a good donkey too!
My fave scenes include the torture of the ‘Gingerbread Man’ by Lord Farquad(sp) (pronounced Fark-Wad) - really funny stuff!
The plethora of fairy tale characters makes me want to purchase the video so I can examine it more closely. It was hard to see all of the action in some of the crowd scenes.
I think I enjoyed it even more since I saw on ET that Chris Farley (RIP) was the original Shrek, and you can see how they modeled the character after him. I loved Chris Farley.
The kids loved it too, I highly recommend it for the whole family.
I also went to see it. By myself, as I’m a large, antisocial childlike person
Funnier than hell. Eddie Murphy killed me, Mike Myers was cool. I was literally laughing so hard I was crying at the end. A donkey with Eddie Murphy’s voice singing “I’m a Believer” has to be seen to be truly appreciated, and Snow White slapping Cinderella in a fight over a bouquet at a wedding is just priceless.
Everyone should see this. Well, except with those of you with no sense of humor
I saw it. I liked it. Some good moments. I did like most of the rock and roll soundtrack but some of their choices were kind of strange.
When I got to this thread the thread above it was 'What the most embarrasing thing you have seen?"
So that was pretty funny.
In general, I thought that the movie was good. I lost control of myself during the gingerbread interrogation scene. Eddie Murphy’s flatulence jokes did get a little repetitive.
I saw Shrek the other day too. I didn’t feel ripped off, but I certainly didn’t enjoy it as much as the rest of you seemed to.
Things I didn’t like: Mike Myers’s scottish accent (please give that impression a rest… “Fat Bastard” as Shrek), fart jokes, cliched Matrix gag, un-amusing cameos by “Disney” characters.
Things I did like: Eddie as the donkey (Very funny!), beautiful animation, good soundtrack, “Oh, you’re a GIRL dragon!”
Overall, I felt the Shrek tried a little too hard to be endearing. The characters grow on you but still lack the charm of Toy Story 1 & 2, Bugs Life, and Ants.
I saw Shrek last night and loved it Everyone has commented on Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, so I will give it up for Cameron Diaz I laughed from start to finish, but them I am easy to entertain.
I’d reccommend it, but I’d hardly call it a kids movie… can’t wait to own it!
I partially agree with aoty in that it wasn’t quite as good (and certainly didn’t suck you in as much) as Toy Story or its sequel. However, it was a very good movie, and quite well done.
You really can’t begrudge Dreamworks/PDI the flatulence jokes. After all, this was ostensibly a kid’s movie. While the story itself was so-so (typical fairy tale schlock), the enjoyment was all in the details. You can’t help but chuckle at the Disney jabs, and the sheer number of well done pop-culture references was just a joy to experience. Best scene in the movie (very minor spoiler warning): the attendant at the entrance to the castle running his way through the twisting entrance line trying to get away from Shrek.
I saw it yesterday with a few friends and loved it. A really great movie. I saw an interview with Myers and he said that they originally wanted him to do a Canadian accent (so glad they went with the Scottish one; I really liked that, actually).
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I thought the seeming allegory of Disney as the evil prince was pretty dang funny. How his castle was set up like Disneyland, and him locking up all of the fairytale creatures.
Count me in as well – while Shrek certainly scored high with the gags and laughs, it didn’t quite match up to the Toy Story movies in terms of … well, “heart”, for lack of a better term. I thought the emotional/romantic aspects were rather formulatic and predictable, and didn’t really connect with the characters other than as filling comedy roles.
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I’m ready and willing to attribute the difference to John Lasseter, who was head writer and director for the Toy Story movies. The man is a true storytelling genius, and IMO the biggest talent Pixar has.
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Funniest Shrek scene: tough call, but I’ll give it to Lord Farquad’s “information booth”, just for the puppets’ song-and-dance number.
I saw it today. I just got home from it in fact. Add me to the “loved it” list. The animation was great and Eddie Murphy was hillarious. My boyfriend kept calling the dragon Figment, but Figment is purple not pink.
I absolutely loved the way the movie ended. SPOILER ALERT!!!
I guess I had been conditioned for so long (haven’t we all?) to believe that only beautiful people were allowed to fall in love and live happily ever after, that the movie really touched me. When they did a spoofe on “Beauty and the Beast” and she didn’t change I was thrilled. Half of me knew that she wouldn’t change. The other half was afraid that she would.
I saw it the other day with a friend of mine. We both thought it was pretty good.
My general thoughts:
It was very predictable, overall. Even some of the jokes were predictable.
I think the movie tried a bit too hard to be funny at times. Luckily, this wasn’t very often.
The music for the movie is both appropriate and diverse. It’s quite nice.
Lovely animation and, well, “mood”. The dark, dangerous castle felt appropriately dark and dangerous, for example.
I kept thinking throughout the entire movie, “This is for kids?!?” Sheesh, can you just imagine a bunch of children mispronouncing Farquad to their shocked parents? Evil evil evil.
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My favorite scenes are the gingerbread-man torture scene, and the blue-bird egg scene.
Went and saw it yesterday with Mrs. O, the Tzeroling, and two of her friends.
The kids, apparently, loved it. Mrs. O was more equivocal than I about it, though we agreed it had moments but little “heart”. The love story was a nice angle - the bit when they first set up camp was good, didn’t telegraph the twist at all (unless I missed something). The bit where Farquad meets his doom was a tad unnerving (see SPOILER below) but the balloon scene was an absolute hoot!
I guess we’d give it 3.25 stars (3 from Mrs. O, 3.5 from me.)
SPOILER I have the heebie-jeebies about people getting eaten whole. The scream after the first bite just added to it.
I loved it, laughed my ass off, particularly during the Gingerbread man/Farquad “Muffin Man” exchange (whole theater: quiet. Me: giggling - GIGGLING - hysterically).
spoiler alert, of course: I think she was cute, even as an ogre…and when they kept referring to her in that guise as “hideous” it rang wrong to me. She WASN’T hideous…she was heavier, had a bigger nose, her teeth weren’t perfect…but not bloodydamned well hideous. I understand the point they were trying to make, but I thought they could have NOT hammered on “hideous” when she damned well WASN’T.
I also loved this movie. I laughed out loud so many times I lost count. I too, loved the gingerbread man scene, and I thought the Robin Hood scene was a riot as well! Shrek’s fight in Farquaad’s castle also had me rolling, with the WWF spoof.
I plan to get the DVD when it is released. Great film.
I was actually somewhat disappointed at the whole ‘She’s really an ogre by night as well’ thing. The love story would be just as well done without having her turn into an ogre, which I think kind of says ‘The reason she could love him, is because she also thinks she is ugly’. I am glad however, that the didn’t cop out like Disney would have, and have him turn into a human in the end.
Overall, a movie well worth the money I spent to see it.
As for the Matrix spoof, I enjoyed it because it was a spoof/jab at the Matrix, rather than an attempt to cash in and be neat. I love how, in the middle of the fly around, when she is floating there, time is stopped, and she takes a second to adjust her hair before kicking.
