What's everyone getting their panties in a twist about?

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2001)

DreamWorks' cheeky bet-the-farm big animated movie: a Fractured Fairy Tale in which a green, boiler-shaped ogre (voiced
by Mike Myers) and a princess locked up in a castle (Cameron
Diaz) discover they have more body-image problems than the
dramatis personae of Todd Solondz's life work. There's something
likable about the movie, particularly the rendering of Shrek and his
sidekick, a non-stop-jabbering donkey (Eddie Murphy). Not likable
enough, though, to justify Diaz's weird non-performance, or the
essentially ugly visual landscape of computer-generated
animation, or the uncertain wrtiting. How bizarre is it that Jeffrey
Katzenberg seems to have made a second career mocking his
own Disney experience. At one point, a BEAUTY AND THE BEAST-like song bursts out, and Diaz comments "Ecch, how
annoying!"