Quality entertainment

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2008)

An excellent comedy, entertaining for kids and adults alike. There are those who have criticized "Shrek" and its sequels for it's crude humour, but that, to me, is where "Shrek" scores. Adults can enjoy the 'adult' humour while kids will just take in the visuals and enjoy the slight story as well as take in the moral of the story, which is, you can only be yourself and people will like you anyway. The joy in Shrek is not only the visuals though, but in the script and acting. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow are having fun with their roles! They clearly sounded as if they were enjoying theirselves here. Cameron Diaz, in particular, who in other movies just grates, makes a perfect anti-hero princess. John Lithgow has a great old time with his Lord Farquaad,and the sly references to Disney make this a perfect antidote to all those cutesey-pie kiddies movies we've been inflicted on in the past!