Review – Shrek

Usually when everyone I know tells me that a particular movie is a must-see and I’m absolutely going to love it, I’m absolutely going to hate it. It’s not that everyone I know has bad taste in movies. It’s just that glowing reviews put the pressure on me to develop affection, and I guess I don’t respond all that well to the challenge. However, every once in a great while a film will come along that gets heaps of praise and actually turns out to deserve it. This is such a movie. To be sure, a fair amount of the humor (especially the copious fart jokes) is more than a little on the juvenile side. But in an animated feature, I expect that’s to be expected. Further, the importance-of-inner-beauty moral gets a bit too thick, especially toward the end. But shortcomings are more than made up for by the clever spin placed on a whole host of fairy tale clichés, not to mention the high-quality, 3-D rendered computer animation. The final product is one of those rare movies to which parents can take their kids and end up with everyone thoroughly amused. The DVD also includes a host of extras. Worth seeing