Beautiful animation, performances. second film is better

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2006)

'Shrek' is a beautifully-animated film about an ugly troll (Shrek) who learns how to find an inner beauty during his adventure rescuing a beautiful princess. The film is witty, bringing together several voice talents which bring the characters to life and create an interesting fairy-tale story involving several fairy-tale characters. While the animation and the characters are done very well, the story itself seems a little weak and slow in places. There is a lot of humor in the story, but this often got annoying and distracted from the story. In my opinion, the second film is much better than this one, but this one should be enjoyed by children (and adults), and it does have some good lessons. I give this film slightly above average because the animation is good, and the performances are done well.