Perfect mixture for all ages!

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2002)

It took me a good while before I sat down to watch Shrek. My friends said that it was good, and I like cartoons/animated movies. But most of these are for younger folk, by witch I mean audiences under 12-13. This movie however took me by storm! Never could I have thought it would be this good!
The voice acting is great, the dialog out standing and the animations are pretty impressive. Branding this movie a children's-movie is totally wrong! I don't want to underestimate the perception of the youngsters, but roughly I think half of the jokes are out of younger kids league. Sure it's a cute movie, but the comedy value is far beyond most children's movies. Which I think is great! To make a classic it has to be enjoyable by all ages. And I definitely think Shrek is up for that. There are too many movies ridiculing the perception of kids and serve them `jokes' on a plate. Jokes so bluntly obvious, and most often lacking anything that stimulates any brain activity that you can't really force yourself to even smile at them. So I'm not at all saying this movie is too `hard' for smaller kids to understand. It's a perfect mixture!
Let's just see if the people behind this wonderful piece can make it even better, as I hear there's a Shrek 2 in the making. Hope it wont be just another `re-run' of this great movie or a bad sequel to make some extra cash.