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...Nintendo side, Luigi's Mansion is one of several new works from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong and an inductee of the game designers' Hall of Fame. It features Mario's brother ridding his real estate of ghosts with the aid of a flashlight and vacuum cleaner; great game play aside, it's an excuse to show off the GameCube's spectacularly realistic lighting effects. Similarly, the hugely entertaining jet-ski game Wave Race has made an art form of virtual H2O; its foam and raindrops on the camera lens will have you reaching...
...princess guarded by a ferocious dragon? You bet. Will Shrek fall in love with her? Why bother to ask? What's so good (or original) about all of this? Well, frankly, it's the Donkey...
However, this is all of little consequence. Shrek is a bona fide comedy, and the plot seems molded around the jokes, rather than visa-versa. All Myers and company want to do is make the viewer laugh, and no earwax or "ass"-is-a-synonym-for-"donkey" joke falls below their standards. Though not every wisecrack connects, the movie makes a commendable effort in creating an animated movie that is actually funny rather than "adventurous" and "poignant" as most other cartoon features tend to be nowadays...
Surprisingly, comic-genius Myers is the weakest link in the packed cast. Shrek, who sounds sort of like Fat Bastard Lite, has few good lines, and it is Donkey who steals the show. In what may be Murphy's funniest role since The Nutty Professor (or Metro, but that was more of an unintentional thing), Donkey prances around the screen, firing off a stream of surprisingly funny jokes and comments. Lithgow also deserves praise and laughs for his vocals on Farquaad, who is perhaps the first on-screen character ever on screen to have computer-animated chest hair...
...theme-park-like kingdom to Shrek's swamp. In order to live in peace, Shrek strikes a deal with Farquaad: if the ogre rescues Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from her enchanted castle, the evil ruler will remove the new members of Shrek's swamp community. Add an incessantly talking donkey sidekick (voiced by Eddie Murphy) to the mix, and you have yourself one twisted, yet potentially hilarious fairy tale. And don't forget the film's extras: those favorite fictional characters of yours and mine. The film's trailer promises cameos by everyone from the Gingerbread Man, to Pinocchio...