Shrek's still beautifully made cinema: and still pretty damn innovative animation.

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2018)

Dreamworks struck gold when they released Shrek in 2001: it became the first ever animated feature to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and it showed that PIXAR was no longer alone in the CGI-animation Hollywood race to the top. On top of that, this film parodied and subverted all the tropes of classic Disney movies and traditional fairy-tales by making the 'scary monster' the hero of the story and the most gold-spirited character in the whole thing. It's wonderful stuff that's still laugh-out-loud funny and still a very impressive technical sideshow from the early 2000s.
Shrek is a movie that speaks for itself, and I think it doesn't need to depend on its recent spike of internet popularity to show that it's a classic and well done movie through and through. This one's probably one of my all-time favourite animated movies; plain and simply I think it's near flawless entertainment.