Superb

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2018)

Continuing my plan to watch every Eddie Murphy movie in order, I come to his second voice over effort, 2001's Shrek .
Plot In A Paragraph: An Ogre goes on a quest to rescue a princess to regain his home.
Summer 2001 looked a lot like Murphy's successful summer of 1998. It started with voice work in an animated hit movie. Mike Myers is the main character. Murphy once again played a sidekick (Donkey and Mushu are practically the same character). And Cameron Diaz played the not so damsel in distress. Usually, I don't say a lot about voice work. It rarely has that big of an impact on an actor's career. But this is a different matter.
Shrek was first 2001 film to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar (beating Monsters, Inc.) the full movie is a delight!! This is how you make a movie to delight all ages, and Murphy simply steals this movie, and he would essential retreat to the role of Donkey for the rest of his career to date. Truthfully he was made for voice over work, and his fast talking Donkey is a favourite of many. Surprisingly he only voices one character.
There is one bang up to date joke when Donkey snaps "Hey!! That is unwanted physical contact" to the lusty dragon.
Shrek dethroned Beverly Hills Cop, to became Murphy's highest grossing movie, grossing $267 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 3rd highest grossing movie of 2001. Only the first Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings Movies grossed more