Dreamworks Shrek is one of the best technical animated movies in quite some time.
Shrek was not just a box office hit, but it was a hit among childrens and fans of all ages. Shrek’s success lay on Dreamworks success formula of mixing in all their previous characters that audiences loved, along with making a great adventure that had audiences entertained.
I have watched the movie before several but the dvd is amazing, it’s literally
like watching the movie all over again with the featuretts and some added
scenes .
The movie Shrek also had a great number of musical songs used in the movie such as Smashmouth’s ’’All Star’’, Willie Nelson’s ’’On The Road Again’’, ’’The Pina Colada Song’’ by Robert Holmes.
Shrek (Michael Myers) is not your typical fairy tale hero, which is another reason why audiences loved the movie. Shrek is proof that not every hero needs to be a tall, perfect being that rescues the princess.
Shrek is virtually a whose who of all fairy tales: Pinocchio, The 3 Little Pigs, The Big
Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, are just a couple examples of fairy tale characters provide not only humor, but another chance for kids and audiences to love their fairy tale character that they heard as kids.
Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) evicts all the Fairy Tale Creatures from their homes, and makes them move to the swamp.
Farquaad in a funny scenes tries to capture the big, loving orge, Shrek outside his kingdom of Duloc, but Shrek defeats the men in a hilarious display including a spoof of wrestling.
The wrestling spoof done by Shrek is absolute hilarious is no doubt a shot at Pro Wrestling at it’s best.
Farquaad helpless against Shrek, offers him the chance to get his swamp back but tells Shrek that he must complete a special journey to get his home back.
That journey of course entails not only Shrek defeating a mysterious dragon,
but a beautiful princess named Fiona (Cameron Diaz).
Fiona is the beautiful princess who is somewhat chained to Lord Farquaad
but who dreams of being rescued by a great knignt of course that’s when
Shrek comes in...
The ending was a bit of a surprise but it was a welcome surprise, in fact
compared to that garbage of a movie called ’’Shallow Hal’’ , ’’Shrek’’ actually
does live up to theme of the inner beauty within someone to find love.
The DVD is loaded, I mean loaded with special features, in fact I think that the Academy Awards should add a category for best DVD’S because they are alot of great dvd’s out there that deserve their awards.
The DVD of Shrek is one such great dvd, it comes loaded with many features including:
Trailer of The Film
Interview with the Cast of The Film (In their Animated form)
HBO First Look at Shrek
A Tech Look at the Making of Shrek
A Sneak Peek at other upcoming animated films
A Special hint section for the XBOX game of Shrek
A Special Dubbing featurette
and many more features!!!
So check out the movie and check the dvd, now that Shrek 2 is coming out in the summer, a revisit and reviewing of the original seems very appropriate.