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Genres:
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Animation /
Adventure /
Comedy /
Family /
Fantasy /
Romance
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Actors:
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Cody Cameron,
Bobby Block,
Chris Miller,
Peter Dennis,
Clive Pearse,
Michael Galasso,
Simon J. Smith,
Mike Myers,
Eddie Murphy,
Cameron Diaz,
John Lithgow,
Vincent Cassel,
Jim Cummings,
Kathleen Freeman,
Christopher Knights
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)218
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Plot Summary:
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In order to reserve his domestic, a monster (Mike Myers) with a donkey (Eddie Murphy) makes a reckon with with a mean the Almighty to freeing a fair princess (Cameron Diaz) .
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Shrek
A gleeful piece of wisenheimer computer animation, Shrek doesn't have much patience for traditional once-upon-a-time fairy tales: The only time one appears, its pages end up as reading material and then some in the hero's outhouse.
That hero is a fierce ogre with a name that's Yiddish for fear. He made his debut in William Steig's 1990 children's book, about a cheerfully ugly monster who's "tickled to be so repulsive," that has become something of a classic.
As the more wised-up version of that wised-up modern fairy tale, Shrek, the film, is all comic attitude, all the time. Casual, carefree, consistently amusing, it plays a lot like the earlier Aladdin, which Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, lead writers and co-producers here, also wrote.
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Shrek
Hilarious, irreverent digitally-animated fable from the makers of Antz. A Scottish ogre, a talking donkey, a midget tyrant, a princess with a secret and a whole raft of fairy-tale characters poke fun at uptightness and dole out liberalism
Even before the credits, the 'Once Upon A Time...' tweeness of traditional animation is knocked for six. The pages of a scene-setting story-book are promptly torn up by Shrek's eponymous hero, a green ogre voiced by Mike Myers (in a variant on his Austin Powers Fat Bastard Scots accent, for some reason), and used for toilet paper.
Shrek lives alone in a swamp. Despite having a fearsome reputation, all he wants is peace. Unfortunately, local tyrant Lord Farquaad (Lithgow) wants to rid himself of fairy-tale crea...
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