Shrek

Shinji

Went to see a preview screening of Shrek today - it's out next weekend.

Bloody brilliant is all I can say... well, no, actually I can probably say more than that. The animation is great, not Final Fantasy level but close; the voice acting is spot-on, with John Lithgow stealing the show but Mike Myers being pretty good, Eddie Murphy being, well, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz being a little unsteady in places but mostly perfectly good.

The humour is magnificent. Pop-culture references abound, but the whole thing is really taking the mick out of conventional fairytales... There are several points where it sends up Disney fantastically, and the rest of the time it's always busy taking the p1ss out of SOMETHING.

Best movie of the summer so far, no doubt - I loved Shrek and felt it was a couple of hours really well spent, far more so than the bloody awful Pearl Harbour or the "fall asleep between action sequences" Tomb Raider...

Winning Hand

Saw it a few weeks ago and I have to say its one of the best films I've seen in a long time, voice acting was top-notch, and the early part when they were rounding up the fairy tale characters had me in bits, the woman trying to sell the talking donkey and he wouldnt talk . Interesting point, the main guy involved in Shrek used to work at disney for years. Although I thought the film faded a bit towards the end I still think it was well worth my $5.50
"D'ya think he's trying to compensate for something"

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In a plastic cup

I like my coffee like I like my women......
covered in bees

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Why is it that all the really great comedy films these days are all animated. Toy Story 1 and 2, Chicken Run and so on. And now Shreck. Its the best film i've seen in ages, its got bloody everything, for kids and adults, and Eddie Murphy at his best for the first time in donkeys (pun intended, god help me). Plus the animation is astounding. Great stuff, see it twice..

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Damn it Jim, im a doctor, not a Beefy King !

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WHAT ABOUT THE DRAINS IN HACKNEY ?

Draco

Yup, have to agree here. It had me in stiches. The balloon animals were great.

Bluehair

Have to aggree, I *loved* this. Really decent lighthearted movie anyone could watch.

Really enjoyed the general disney p1ss-take too!

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Bluehair

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by C B:
Is there still enough in it for kids (6 years old)to enjoy, or is it more for an older audience.</font>

LOADS in it for the kids... one of those rare movies thats the kiddies seem to adore but there's lots of material there for the adults that just slips by the kids...

smoke.me.a.kipper

good film alright.

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Thrasher

Went to see it last night - loved the 3D graphics. Best I have ever seen. And the character animation was great. Loved the balloons too, but my favourite character was the gingerbread man...... hilarious.

/Rory

C B

Is there still enough in it for kids (6 years old)to enjoy, or is it more for an older audience.

kayos

I went to see it last night OMG it was funny I was in pain afterwards I was laughing so much. This is a must see film and a must buy. I loved it so much I think I'll see again very soon.

kayos

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Shinji

Small point... Farquaad bears no small resemblance to Michael Eisner, long-time boss of Disney. 0wned.

Robbo

Germaine Greere was denoucing it on Newsnight on Friday, so you KNOW its going to rock

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Rob.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Lucy_la_morte

Definately got my juices flowing now, I gotta go see it like.. Now!

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Lucy la morte.

TinCool

Saw this over the weekend, have to say I was well impressed. Eddie Murphy was great, he never shut up through out the entire flick. Lots of humerous stuff in there, too many to mention.

Loved that scene with the gingerbread man being tortured in the milk, class stuff. Must go see it again.

tHE vAGGABOND

when the blue bird exploded I thought I was going to **** myself I was laughing so much

best movie I have seen in ages, laughs from start to end really!

SweetBirdOfTruth

the backlash starts here.

saw this sat. mildly amusing at best. spoiled - imo - by too many cheap / in jokes. hell, it coulda been an airport movie.


mike myers sounds just like robbie coltrane - what, couldn't they afford robbie coltrane?

as for the amination - i don't get it. it's got no style to it. i loved the amination in iron giant, this stuff though - well what is it? yeah, great, so what, facuial expressions are better than they've ever been, blades of grass look more like blades of grass but ... well it's like all those cutesy sweet watercolors old folks try and flog off park railings whenever the sun comes out in this city. technically perfect but no way am i hanging of em in my living room.

[This message has been edited by SweetBirdOfTruth (edited 02-07-2001).]

Draco

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SweetBirdOfTruth:
mike myers sounds just like robbie coltrane - what, couldn't they afford robbie coltrane?</font>

Apparently he did it first in his normal voice but then thought that it would sound better with a scottish accent and convinced them to re record him and redo the lip syncing.

SweetBirdOfTruth

i rd that too. still doesn't solve the q as to whtether the real robbie was too expensive for em.

Karl Hungus

I saw the film, and I was quite a bit dissapointed, to be honest...

I mean, there's SO much in that film that would have been REALLY cool if it wasn't for the fact that the ads on TV ruined most of it...

The Matrix take of, for instance, would have been SOOOOOOO funny, if it wasn't for the fact that it was shown on basicaly ever advertisment...

I enjoyed the film... BUT, I felt that it was quite ruined before I got to see it...

BlitzKrieg

Another film runed by advertising was
ransom which was ruined by the ads showing his twist development if they kept tha quiet then it would have been bigger.


I dont know about shrek i mean the ads show abit but i know litle about plot from them i'll see it soon and comment

the celtic tiger

fantastic.


"you cut me deep shrek, you cut me deep just now."

WhiteWashMan

saw it last night.
very bloody funny.
i p1ssed myself all the way through

Jim Daniels

Saw it last night too.

The most entertaining film I have seen in ages.

Great soundtrack too.

Kali

Quite entertaining but you really have to keep the fact that its a Disney film at the back of your mind, e.g. all these ppl (not here, but on other boards) I have seen ripping the film apart, for what purpose? its fun, light-hearted entertainment for everyone.. sure its a fairytale for gods sake, i.e. predictably happy ending.

As for ads if theres a particular film I've heard about that is meant to be great I simply just change the channel when the trailer comes on.

morgana

Saw it last week, and like others, thought it the best thing I'd seen for a looong time! So good I'll probably buy the video or DVD ...
Funny, light-hearted without being boring or overly kitschy

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:

...the fact that its a Disney film...
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... isn't a fact at all

It's a Dreamworks film and it takes the p|ss out of Disney enough times

(this info from the bro'- I have yet to see it...)

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leelu

Ok so it was good, but I have to agree with SweetBirdOfTruth, I think I did prefer the animation in The Iron Giant... and talk about type-casting... Eddie Murphy again (not as a donkey, obviously, lol),but he always seems to play the same characters.

It was funny though I suppose. I saw Moulin Rouge in the same week (sorry to bring it up again) and in a years time I think Shrek is prob going to fall back to the mists of my memory while I 'll be watching Moulin Rouge on DVD over and over again.

But hey maybe it's just a matter of personal taste.