A misunderstood animated feature.

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2014)

For some god awful reason audiences pay top dollar for "Shrek" films. There's been four of these tragically awful works put to screen, each one raising higher anticipation than the next. "Shrek" does a fine job spending big bucks to place a different type of story out there with a hidden love. I say hidden because "Shrek" is one of the more gritty animated features with a PG rating of all time. Instead of crafting gorgeous visuals with heartfelt to the point of tears stories like Disney Pixar, Dreamworks went for an original story that was not only extremely agitating but ruthlessly dull. Sure, everyone if special no matter if they're an ogre or an annoying donkey. How hard is it to figure out? We could guess where the heart was coming from based on the poster, except the heart never really comes. I will say "Shrek" has some of the biggest and well-suited actors you can get for an animated film. An ogre named Shrek (Mike Meyers), in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey (Eddie Murphy) in order to bring a princess (Cameron Diaz) to a scheming lord, wishing himself King. Pretty clever, huh? Not really. The story fails in a scheming scheme of rudeness and action. Each scene if more obnoxious than the next, leaving you either in love with this dim-witted story or ready to skip the next sequel Dreanmworks throws at us due to having no other creative ideas like Pixar or other animated film companies.