Shrek film Review

However after rescuing and accomplishing his mission his is put towards another mission this is to save his only true love, Princess Fiona this time from an even more terrifying character than our female dragon, Lord Farquaad. As ever he manages to accomplish this as well.

Shrek is indeed a film you can watch with your family. It has the colourful animations for the young ones. At the start of the film when Shrek is sitting outside his house burping, wallowing in brown sludge and passing such noxious gas underwater that fish float to the surface is sure to make the children laugh. Donkey, a very amusing character is there for all the older viewers. He is not afraid of the ugly green ogre. He clearly shows this when Shrek screams at Donkey and Donkey shouts:

“OOH if that scream doesn’t scare people off        

that breath s-u-r-e will. M-A-N you need some Tic-Tac’s.”

Although Shrek is green and he is meant to appeal as this horrible heartless character that every one is frightened of we learn that children find him a friend, a huge teddy bear that they can just cuddle up to. The more understanding viewers learn that you should not always judge a book by its cover.

Eddy Murphy, now he is an actor of many different roles. One role in which he has kept throughout his showbiz carrier is the ‘funny guy’, always chilling out the mood. He stars in many films were he makes the audience laugh at his facial expressions and mostly his way of talking. The high pitch voice he uses when he is criticising is a sudden change of his original tone therefore puts his opinion through strongly. Eddy Murphy taking on Donkey’s role was definitely for me a good idea. He put through a strong character that kept the audience focused. If without the Donkey DreamWorks was to do the scene were him and Shrek head off to their mission it will be with no doubt very boring. Donkey livened up the atmosphere by singing, asking a lot of questions and putting through a lot of jokes. For me Donkey was the best character. Eddy Murphy was an incredible voice to have been selected.

Shrek, now his strong Scottish accent was beyond doubt inconceivable. Mike Myers earlier film ‘Austin Powers’ he took on a comical character. As the character Shrek, at first he is meant to be a mean, green ogre. As the film gradually moves on he becomes a more funny character and is a rather patient person to cope with Donkey. Mike Myers certainly kept the mood going with his constant moaning at Donkey and his mission to get his quite and lonely swamp back.    

Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) had a very sturdy character. Cameron Diaz did a good job as playing the weak voiced princess when she was locked up in the tower. Princess Fiona’s glass shattering, high pitched voice she had performed when she was tuning to the bird was a very amusing part of the film. The audience got the feeling at first of just a normal happy, cheerful person but then a sudden change of mood when that bird had burst whilst doing a duet with Princess Fiona.

For me I do not think that Lord Farquaad really had that much of a character. He was just a normal villain. John Lithgow did however this villain voice well. I just did not feel as though for a character he had a strong personality that stood out.