![]() ![]() The Mirror tells him that Farquaad can only become a real king by marrying a princess. Meanwhile, Farquaad tortures the Gingerbread Man into revealing the whereabouts of the remaining fairytale creatures until his guards rush in with an object Farquaad has been searching for: the Magic Mirror. Shrek leaves the swamp to ask Lord Farquaad for the return of his privacy, with Donkey tagging along. Shrek, who is a mean-spirited green ogre that has always enjoyed living in peaceful solitude in his swamp, finds his life disrupted when numerous fairytale beings, including Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, and Donkey, are forced into the swamp by order of the obsessive and fairytale-hating Lord Farquaad. 8.6 National Film Preservation Board, USA. ![]() In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", making it the first DreamWorks Animation film to earn that honor and the first non-Disney animated feature to be inducted as well. The film's success also inspired other merchandise, such as video games, a stage musical and even a comic book by Dark Horse Comics. A fifth film, planned as the last of the series, was cancelled in 2009 with the announcement that the fourth film would conclude the series. The film's success prompted DreamWorks to create three sequels, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and Shrek Forever After, two holiday specials, Shrek the Halls and Scared Shrekless, and a spin-off film, Puss in Boots. Muson Nenson Ma Gelnim HREK established DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. The film's main (and title) character was awarded his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2010. The film was also nominated for six British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shrek won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was acclaimed as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humor to appeal to children. Shrek also received a promotion from food chains such as Baskin-Robbins (promoting the film's DVD release) and Burger King. The film was also originally planned to be motion-captured, but after poor results, the studio decided to get PDI to help Shrek get its final computer-animated look.Įarning $484.4 million at the worldwide box office, the film was a critical and commercial success. After Farley died in 1997 before he could finish, Mike Myers was brought in to work for the character, who after his first recording decide to record his voice in a Scottish accent. ![]() Shrek originally cast Chris Farley to do the voice for the title character, recording about 80%-90% of his dialog. Williams convinced him to bring the film to DreamWorks in 1994, the time the studio was founded, and the film was put quickly into active development by Jeffrey Katzenberg after the rights were bought by the studio in 1995. The rights to the books were originally bought by Steven Spielberg in 1991, before the founding of DreamWorks, when he thought about making a traditionally animated film based on the book. The film made notable use of popular music the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, John Cale, Self, Baha Men, Leslie Carter and Dana Glover (covering Leonard Cohen). It is loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, and somewhat serves as a parody film, targeting other films adapted from numerous children's fantasies (mainly animated Disney films). Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy-adventure-comedy film produced by PDI, originally released by DreamWorks, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. “ The greatest fairy tale never told.” ―Tagline ![]()
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