Shrek

2001 90 min ★ 7.8 Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Family

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

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Cast

Mike Myers

Shrek / Blind Mouse (voice)

Eddie Murphy

Donkey (voice)

Cameron Diaz

Princess Fiona (voice)

John Lithgow

Lord Farquaad (voice)

Vincent Cassel

Monsieur Hood (voice)

Peter Dennis

Ogre Hunter (voice)

Clive Pearse

Ogre Hunter (voice)

Jim Cummings

Captain of the Guards (voice)

Bobby Block

Baby Bear (voice)

Chris Miller

Geppetto / Magic Mirror (voice)

Details

Director

Andrew Adamson

Tagline

"The greatest fairy tale never told."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$60,000,000

Revenue

$489,676,241

Production

Pacific Data Images, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Pictures

Reviews

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Cwf97

May 10, 2021

★ 10/10

Shrek is a masterpiece! It helped subvert the Disney Renaissance formula with great humor and heart. Myers, Murphy, Diaz and Lithgow did a great job voicing the characters. Now that this film is 20 years old, I am glad it existed.

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GenerationofSwine

January 12, 2023

★ 10/10

Eddie Murphy was actually funny in this. I mean he was 1980s Eddie Murphy style funny in this. It was like he was at the top of his game again. It makes you miss Eddie. What we have today is not the glory that he once was. But, beyond the great return of funny Eddie...there is a wonderful dark humor that goes great with an otherwise wholesome and moving moral.

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핸키

January 14, 2023

★ 9/10

It was so fun and a new try. 하하

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CinemaSerf

September 2, 2023

★ 7/10

Poor old ogre "Shrek" just want to be left alone, that's all - he's got a bit of the Greta Garbo's about him. Rather inconveniently, though, nasty Lord "Farquaad" who has a little of the Napoleon syndrome about him, banishes all the fairytale creatures from his lands and so they turn up on the doorstep of our green friend. How can he be rid of them all? Well together with his new (and frankly quit...