Shrek Reviews

Shrek Review
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 3.5/4)
In ninety minutes, "Shrek" offers more laughs and giddy pleasures than most movies of late do at that twice that length. It is a wondrous, comical animated adventure that satirizes fairy tales and wears its heart on its sleeve without ever winking too...more

Shrek Review
by Rose 'Bams' Cooper
SHREK (2001) Rated PG; running time 89 minutes Studio: Dreamworks Genre: Animated Official site: http://www.shrek.com/ IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0126029 Written by: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S.H. Schulman, Joe Stillman (based on the...more

Shrek Review
by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 3.5/4)
Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger SH Schulman, with additional dialogue by Cody Cameron, Chris Miller and Conrad Vernon, based on the novel by William Steig. Starring Mike Myers,...more

Shrek Review
by Jon Popick
It took three years and over 275 artists and computer geeks to bring Shrek to the big screen, and the PDI/DreamWorks (the peeps who made Antz) film kicks off with a crappy "modern rock" song that was popular, oh, about three years ago ("Hey now/you're an...more

Shrek Review
by Edward Johnson-Ott (Rating: 4/5)
Shrek (2001) Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel. Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S.H. Schulman, based on the book by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson. 89 minutes. Rated...more

Shrek Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4)
So when you're trying to choose a future queen, do you go for bachelorette #1 (Sleeping Beauty, who's a real snoozer), bachelorette #2 (Snow White, who lives with seven guys) or bachelorette #3 (Princess Fiona, who has the advantage of looking and...more

Shrek Review
by Eduardo Marin Conde
El género de animación ha constituido una de las formas más creativas del cine en los últimos años. Los notables avances en las técnicas han ido aparejadas de nuevos caminos de expresión artística. En 1995 surgió la primera película animada realizada...more

Shrek Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B+)
Once upon a time a solitary ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) was really annoyed to discover that his swamp had been invaded by three blind mice, seven dwarves and all the other fairy tale characters in the land, banished from their home by Lord Farquaad...more

Shrek Review
by John Sylva
It stands as a moment one will not soon forget: a giant, green ogre flips through the pages of a cliche fairy tale, narrating it with every bit of dull inspiration that the story holds. This leads one to believe that this serves as the prologue...more

Shrek Review
by Dustin Putman
Directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson. Voices: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow. 2001 - 89 minutes Rated PG (for mild language). Reviewed by Dustin Putman, May 19, 2001. more

Shrek Review
by Brandon Herring
Shrek Rating: * * * * out of * * * * Rated PG: mild language, crude humor, some sexual innuendo. Starring the voices of...Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow. Directed by: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson more
Shrek Review
by Ram Samudrala
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I decided to see /Shrek/, but it turned out be a surprisingly clever and funny movie, in contrast to its trailers. more
Shrek Review
by Mark O'Hara
Most of the 89 minutes of the computer animated SHREK are a delightful lampoon of fairy tales. The trouble is, SHREK ends up following the same sanitized formula at which it had been thumbing its nose. more
Shrek Review
by Homer Yen
Once upon a time, there existed a fierce rivalry between two powerful animation production companies. One was called Pixar, owned by a juggernaut known as Disney whose name has become synonymous with great animation and storytelling. The other was a...more
Shrek Review
by JONATHAN RICHARDS
The pleasure of Shrek is in its gleeful naughtiness, like a kid at the dinner table doing disgusting things with food to make a mother throw her hands up in mock despair. The title character (adapted from the William Steig book of the same name)...more