movie review - Shrek
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Vancouver, 2001.08.31
I was disppointed by this one. But, I suppose you get what you pay for.
The story was disturbingly pat, the animation a touch out-dated, and the characters couldn't find a place between raunchy caricatures and realistic people.
I'd heard that Shrek was supposed to lampoon a lot of teh old fairy tale shtick, but I suspect they were trying to dumb the whole thing down for the kids, because the humour had a pacing that seemed a touch too slow (of course, that might have been the nature of the medium). But even the voices were a little underwhelming. Murphy and What's-her-name were just using their own voices, while Meyers's accent wobbled all over the North Atlantic in an annoying fashion.
Not recommended.