A total cliche-breaker

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2001)

At the beginning of the film, what do we see?...a big thick colorful fairy tale book that opens and the first thing you see is one those big weird letters that no one these days use, then a cartoon-like narrator begins telling the story of the lovely beautiful enchanted princess waiting for her prince charming to save her from evil; and after that...what might you be thinking?!! Oh no, this wasn't supposed to be Disney!!!, right? well it is not!!!!, the corny little book sooner becomes into something we all use at the restroom, and suddenly, the cliche is broken.
Now, don't get me wrong, just because the story doesn't follow the same path all the fairy tales we are used to do, it means that this film has no charm or marvelous fantasy by itself; it is flooded by it. And on the other hand, it was a blast, I couldn't stop laughing every single minute, I don't remember laughing that much a long time a go. The slight touch of dark humor made the film devilishly funny and on the opposite, some of the gags were so naively funny it was impossible not to smile at least. The characters were so well developed that you could sympathize with them all the time.

I hope Shrek would become a classic in the following years, although these times that seems to be something hard to achieve, even though this film has everything, from adventure, romance, comedy, a great cast behind the voices, a good score and it was released in summer, when everybody has the chance to see it even if it is by chance. Go see it, laugh, smile and have a good time.