A lovable ogre and his donkey friend steal the show...

Rating: 6/10 (28 September 2008)

SHREK is probably more fun for adults than children, especially if you can recognize all the twisted elements derived from a whole flock of Disney films or Grimm's Fairy Tales.
The humor is clever, although sometimes crude, and the animation has a 3D look with some very clever special effects, especially for the scene of the fire-breathing dragon chasing Shrek, the donkey and the princess across a rickety bridge over a pit of lava.
The spirit of fun is more evident than ever in the Robin Hood sequence with the Merry Men bursting into song and dance.
Of course, all the voices are expertly done by people like MIKE MEYERS, JOHN LITHGOW, CAMERON DIAZ and EDDIE MURPHY, none of them sounding conspicuously like their real-life selves except for Murphy.
Personally, I still prefer hand drawn animation over all this computer generated stuff, so I'm not the most unbiased person to review this sort of animated film.
Summing up: Funny with an odd sort of charm but terribly overrated by today's generation of moviegoers.