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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...
Speaking of computer animation, the movie is done entirely in computer graphics, and yes, some of the visuals are quite stunning. However, it should be noted that there is yet to be a computer-animated movie with believable human forms. The men and women in Shrek often appear to move like possessed nutcrackers...
Actually, the movie itself is a possessed nutcracker: an old children's concept trying to pull some new tricks. Shrek may not turn the traditional animated movie upside-down, but at least it turns it on its side...
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...audiences should find something to enjoy in Shrek, a computer-animated film which, a la the musical Into the Woods and Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairytales," turns the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm and Disney upside down. The film, based on the storybook by William Steig, revolves around the character of Shrek, voiced by Mike Myers, a smelly ogre who enjoys solitude. The isolation of his home, however, is threatened by the power-hungry, midget Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow '67) who forcefully relocates all the fairy tale characters from his theme-park-like kingdom to Shrek's swamp...