Mike Myers makes the magic happen!

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2002)

I really fail to understand many of the rather negative comments I've read here about this movie. For gosh sakes, its just an animated kid's movie, what were some of you expecting? "Gone with the Wind?" I personally would probably never have bothered to see it if my son wasn't an 8 year old. I really wasn't expecting much more than Toy Story or Monsters Inc. I was truly surprised.
That said, I must also confess that I found Camron Diez to be disappointingly weak as the princess. Eddie Murphy was way overdone and overboard as the donkey. I mean there wasn't one second that I was able to forget that the ever-chattering voice behind the character was just Eddie Murphy going on and on and on in his usual Eddie Murphy style. And one of my all time favorite actors, John Lithgow, was unfortunately, simply an anaemic parody of himself as the King.
However, this movie was saved as a great movie, animated or otherwise by a surprisingly stellar performance by none other than Mike Myers. It is still difficult for me to grasp that this very same idiotic SNL Pilsbury Dope-Boy who nauseated us all in such sick crap as "Wayne's World" and "Austin Powers" was the inspired genius behind that sardonic but yet wonderful character "Shrek."
No matter how many times you watch the movie, (and I have both the video and an 8 year old, so I've seen it plenty!) you will never hear or find Mike Myers in this film, only the persona of "Shrek." Like Jim Carrey in "The Truman Show," this is where Mike Myers proves to us all that he really belongs where he is in the industry. This movie is an easy "10", simply because Mike Myers or should I say "Shrek," makes it one.
One of the all time truly great characters in animation history!