Funny, but not *brilliant* funny

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2001)

Dreamworks pictures obviously knew what they were doing when they decided to create an animated fairy-tale spoof featuring the voices of the biggest names in the Biz.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is an ugly ogre who, along with a donkey (Eddie Murphy) set out to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) who lives upon the top of a tower protected by a dragon.
Along the way, the film spoofs each and every fairy tale with surprising hilarity, although, for all the hype surrounding it, I actually thought this would be funnier.
Eddie Murphy as the hyper-active attention-seeking donkey is by far the funniest - but like I said, I hoped it would be funnier. 7/10