Computers can create some incredible imagery.
Textures and shadows and depth of field are remarkably rendered. Human figures, still the greatest challenge to computer-generated animation, remain a tad cartoonish here. Yet they are the most lifelike to reach the big screen. That is, he supplies the voice to the jive-talking animated Donkey. It's an unlikely pairing, but then anyone or anything would be a mismatch with the giant, green, smelly and slime-swilling ogre.