Cynical, hateful, topical.

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2005)

While many praise "Shrek" as clever for adults and charming for children, keep in mind the extremely long-lasting appeal of classic animation such as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Bambi," "Fantasia," and "Sleeping Beauty," based on timeless tales and hung out to dry by this film. Those movies, did not become timeless because they were funny parodies, or had fart jokes, or projected a sarcastic yuppie outlook onto more innocent, hopeful ideals. As such, this film will be forgotten in twenty years, just like more topical children's' films from twenty or more years ago, like "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," "WarGames," and "Cloak and Dagger" have been all but forgotten. Nothing this mean lasts forever.