I loved this movie! My favorite part was the Match Game segment, and when he picks Princess Fiona…
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“If you like pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain…”
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ok, i saw the movie yesterday and i just have one question; how, exactly is the relationship between the dragon and the donkey going to work? even just skipping over the species barrier (it IS just a cartoon- species don’t count!) how could the work around the sheer difference in scale?
i know it’s a just cartoon, but I want to know…
feel free to elaborate in detail. (heh heh heh…)
Most reviews have compared Farquaad to the head of Disney, who is actually named Mike Eisner.
I went on a date yesterday with this lovely young lady named Alex. She wanted to go and see Shrek which is understandable since she is only three and isn’t into movies like Bridget Jones’ Diary (excellent) which mommy and I saw on Tuesday night.
We had a great time with her sitting on my lap and munching popcorn as we laughed and I answered questions about the action going on. The gingerbread man really cracked me up as did many of the adult oriented humour and references.
At the end of it all Alex said “that was a great movie, can we buy it?”
I gave it my thumbs up as well and would recommend this movie to any dad who wants to take his daughter out to the movies.
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It was all right. Maybe I’m getting jaded, but a movie that relies on cultural references for most of its jokes is an easy shortcut to writing comedy. Maybe watching Disney getting bashed for years hasn’t helped either, although I loved the way they did it. Did you notice the “F” on the prince’s flags were in the old Disneyland font? And I did love the wrestling match.
Eddie Murphy was great, given the material he had to work with. Especially liked “We’re gonna stay up all night and tell guy stories, and in the morning I’m makin’ WAFFLES!” and the whole sequence about parfeits being the most perfect food in the whole damn world.
The “eat me” line and the “wipe your (ass)” lines kinda bothered me, but only for my son’s sake. (Hey, I’m a parent, what am I gonna say?)
And what can I say about Cameron Diaz? I’m developing a heavy crush on her.
Worth going to see, by all means. Far more than P**** H*****. But don’t expect “Toy Story.”
The animation was better done than what Pixar did so far. I didn’t find the story too predictable as some do, unless you conditioned yourself to believe that the narrative will do the opposite of a conventional fairy tale, which surprisingly I didn’t do. Perhaps that added my enjoyment to the film.
The ending sequence was great. Ironic that an ogre that wanted to be alone will never find himself alone again.
Just one quibble: where are the pina coladas, man? I want soem myself.
Truth be told, I was kinda disapointed.
I’ve really been looking forward to this movie for a long time, so maybe my expectations were too high.
Thought the big laughs were too far apart, though the story lagged less after the introduction of Cameron Diaz’s character.
There were definately some really big laughs of course.
Personal fav: The abandoned eggs/ breakfast scene & the dragon punching out the last window in the otherwise trashed castle.
By comparison, this movie still can’t touch Bug’s Life or the Toy Story movies for story telling and aesthetics. Sure, Shrek’s animation may have been technically superior, but Pixar’s movies have still been more beautiful, with more visually appealing characters as well. The same company also made Antz, which also suffered from similarly unappealing characters and fewer big laughs.
All that critcism aside, I still enjoyed the movie quite a bit, just not as much as I had hoped too.
I’m really looking forward to Pixar’s “Monsters Inc.” due out this Christmas season. Let’s hope I’m not setting my expectations too high for this as well.
We watched Shrek yesterday, and rented (semi-coincidentally) Charlie’s Angels. A Cameron Diaz-fest! CA cracked up both me and my wife, and it was funny to see how many of Cameron Diaz’s body movements and gestured were animated into her Fiona character in Shrek.
I loved the musical references that only the adults would ever understand, like the “pina coladas”. When the Donkey grabbed Shrek and started “You’ve got to love her, squeeze her, gotta gotta gotta gotta…” I busted a gut crying 
And did anyone see, at the end musical number, one of the women in the crowd doing the “Elaine” dance? Funny!
I saw Shrek yesterday. I’d give it four stars out of five. The scene where they turned a frog and a snake into balloons is where I lost control.
Maybe it’s the fault of the theatre where I saw the film, but much of the movie seemed too dark to me in comparison to the TV commercials.
Yeah, people will definitely be watching this movie frame-by-frame at home.
Actually, monster, it was The Dating Game.
The female ogre looked like a green Oprah Winfrey.
My wife (who’s pursuing a vetrinary degree and loves animals) laughed herself to tears at the balloon scene. I thought it was pretty horrible, myself. But the rest of the movie was good.
I thought the trailers portrayed the movie as more of an adventure than a comedy. It came off as little more than a vehicle for a lot of jokes, sort of like Airplane. It didn’t really matter how the story came out. But, that said, I was a little disappointed that it was so predictable. A very pat ending, indeed.
And how can they go on and on about how appearance doesn’t matter, but continually mock Farquad for being short? Sheesh.
Anyway, in all I give it two thumbs up. Very funny, and Eddy Murphy makes a great jackass. My favorite line was when he gets zapped by the pixie and starts to levitate. Ah! Heeheeheehee.
The balloon scene took me out completely, and the “Try a Little Tenderness” song was superb. The Robin Hood River Dancers were pretty amusing, too.
4.5 out of 5. Loved it.
Okay, someone explain to me why Robin Hood had a French accent.
So I’m not the only one. I thought she was pretty cute as an ogre too - I’d do her, if I wasn’t married of course.
Biggest laugh at the theater I went to see it at:
“That’ll do, donkey; that’ll do.”
(cripes, does everybody have a 3 year old? Personally, I hate “The Pig Movie” (said in the same tones as “The Scottish Play”) for opposite reasons; one makes me cry, the other makes me weep.)
Abraham Lincoln didn’t die in vain.
He died in Washington DC*.
(In the Fnord Theater.)
*FST
I loved Shrek! I found the whole thing hilarious though I think I missed some of the references like the “You’ve got to love her, squeeze her, gotta gotta gotta gotta…” thing Gargoyle mentioned Heck I’m only 18 you can excuse me for that.
As to the teasing about him being short… I got that they weren’t teasing the fact that he was short but the fact that he was trying to compensate for being short. Like when he was riding up to get the Princess he looked like an average sized guy but then he got dragged off the horse and it showed that his ‘legs’ stayed on the horse. It was all that he was overcompensating (as well as you could take he was doing it for something else too ahem)
I think that the best part was the Gingerbread Torture scene as well… that was just too hilarious. The whole ‘Muffin Man’ bit had me giggling too.
“Do you know the muffin man?”
“The muffin man? Who lives on drury lane?”
giggles again
Overall I loved this movie. I’ve seen it twice and I plan on buying it.
However, the only thing that I didn’t like was the idea of linking ugly with fat. Why couldn’t they just make her turn green and add the funny ears? Just because I’m lean and about 5% body fat, (I’m a cyclist what can I say?) doesn’t put me in the running for People’s 50 most beautiful people. Fat doesn’t equal ugly people!
“You’ve got to love her, squeeze her, gotta gotta gotta gotta…” I’m 19 and I didn’t get this either, anyone care to explain?
I’d hardly call the Princess fat. I don’t think she was more than a size 14 when ogreish. That’s still smaller than The Wife has been since I first met Her, and She’s beautiful.
Oh, and kids, it’s from a song.
I guessed it was from a song the way Donkey said it. What song though?