Highly enjoyable fairy-tale spoof.

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2019)

Shrek has become a modern classic in the field of animated comedies with its brillint take on well-known fairy-tale tropes and characters. No wonder it spawned three sequels with mixed results and a possible reboot coming in the near future.
But this laugh-filled adventure started with a bang when the evil tyrant Farquaad banishes a horde of fairy-tale creatures to the swamp to the utmost dismay of our titular green ogre. He then contacts Farquaad to make him free the swamp from all these creatures so he can live in peace once again. They strike a bargain and Shrek goes out on his hunt.
Every cliché from fairy-tales is taken into consideration to get a laugh out the audience, but that's what makes Shrek so funny, because it works and was a new thing at the time. Many tried doing a similar job but failed every time. The humour in Shrek can be a little too juvenile at times, but it's not ruining the mass-appeal, because the overall outcome is well thought out and delivered with excellence.
If this was the masterpiece that started it all, then the sequel was the one to add the last bit of icing on the cake to make it the perfect parody movie.