Word: shrek
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...million U.S. ticket sales for Shrek 2, the year's top-grossing movie...
...remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek?) We eagerly await seeing all those guests in kilts...
...animation. London's National Theatre this year scored one of its biggest successes with a lavish, dense and sensationally entertaining two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound up on Broadway last year--and even got a Tony nomination for Best Musical...
There are also remnants of the competition between Pixar and Dreamworks, the creator of the wildly successful Shrek animated series. The Shrek series made the talking donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy into a main character and was rewarded with favorable publicity. The Incredibles feebly attempts to expand the racial horizon of its previous films by giving a bit role to superhero Frozone—celebrity voiced by Samuel L. Jackson—who gets approximately 15 minutes of screen time. More successful is Pixar’s attempt to challenge Dreamworks on the belly-laugh front: when Jack Jack...
However, where Shrek 2 earned its PG rating from its crude humor and suggestive content, The Incredibles is PG for action violence keeping the movie true to Pixar’s tradition of witty and clean entertainment. The audience is treated to explosive battle sequences shot amidst the breath-taking cinematography of the exotic island...