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After what seems like thirty sequels, it's sometimes easy to forget that the original Shrek The movie was a breath of fresh air, well, as fresh as you can find in a swamp. He established a model that has served as a basis for all types of animations, as with his combination of crude jokes that delight children, more daring jokes for adults and a totally irreverent attitude that saw him taking photographs of a certain studio and subject cinema. park supplier.
Even a year later, it's still a very fun movie for viewers of any age. In fact, it's so good that its writer, born and raised in Scotland, is willing to overlook Mike Myers' terrible attempt at a Scottish accent.
Is Shrek worth streaming?
It is. Myers' grumpy swamp dweller is a wonderful comic character, Eddie Murphy as his constantly talking sidekick Donkey is on the right side of extremely irritating, and Cameron Diaz is charming as Princess Fiona, a royal. that keeps a big secret. She is packed with almost as many jokes as a Plane! movie and there's a really sweet message about self-acceptance that's conveyed quite well without spoiling the over-the-top fun. And it has a lot of fun poking fun at fairy tale tropes, which it does mercilessly. As Bitch Media says, “flipping the fairy tale genre on its head was a clever, if not entirely novel, idea at the time, and Shrek “It still retains much of its wry charm 20 years later.”
Total Film said that “there's no denying that the monster-as-hero device is 90-odd minutes of entertainment, and the delivery of the story's moral is handled well enough to avoid triviality.” And the Radio Times said: “This animated fantasy comedy from DreamWorks is an irreverent and occasionally scatological fairy tale with cutting-edge computer-generated imagery that almost leaps ahead toy story“.
In an article in the UK's Daily Telegraph, novelist Andrew O'Hagan said: “Here is a film of the period, funny, enjoyable, perfect-looking and totally original in a way that might make us think again about the meaning of word”. “And Andrew Walker of the London Evening Standard said that “Shrek is alive, and with a dark, sly, and absolutely hilarious irreverence satirizing every once-sacred characteristic of the childhood realm.” The film is “a subversive joy.”
