Shrek movie

An ogre, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey in order to bring a princess to a scheming lord, wishing himself King.

Shrek is an animated feature based upon William Steigs 1990 fairy tale picture book entitled Shrek!. It was directed by New Zealander Andrew Adamson and animated by DreamWorks Animation SKG in May 2001. It was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001 .

Chris Farley was originally going to do the voice for Shrek and did at least half of the audio for the voice, but died before the project was completed. Dreamworks then re-cast the voice role to Mike Myers.After Myers had completed providing the voice for the character and the movie was well into production, he asked to be allowed to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent similar to the one his mother used when she told him bedtime stories. Myers had also employed this character voicing for a skit during his Saturday Night Live tenure, and also for the character Stuart MacKenzie in the motion picture So I Married an Axe Murderer.It was critically 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. It made notable use of pop music—the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, The Baha Men, and Rufus Wainwright.The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Walt Disney Pictures in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. Furthermore, Shrek was made the mascot for the companys animation productions.This film is third on Bravos "100 Funniest Movies". Shrek was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest family films, losing out on the top spot to E.T.Plot synopsisThe movie begins with Shrek, a large, intimidating, peace-and-solitude-loving ogre, reading a story about a beautiful princess who is cursed with an enchantment and is locked away in a tower guarded by an enormous, fire-breathing dragon that destroys all those who try to rescue her, in order to kiss her and break her spell.

All Shrek trailers available on youtube

Shrek Cast

• Bobby Block
• Cameron Diaz
• Chris Miller
• Christopher Knights
• Clive Pearse
• Cody Cameron
• Eddie Murphy
• Jim Cummings
• John Lithgow
• Kathleen Freeman
• Michael Galasso
• Peter Dennis
• Simon J. Smith
• Vincent Cassel