Can honestly say that i have never met a person who said they did not like this movie. For me it is in my top five movies of all times and will remember this movie for a long time!! So, who doesnt like it?
shareMe neither.
shareI had a film professor in college who hated it. He was an expert on animation, I think. He was definitely too harsh on the film.
shareProfessors are all "this is right and this is the only opinion that can be had on this". The only professors that you can really put stock in are most language professors, math and most science. The rest you got to tread with on some bumpy ice, although depends on the class.
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Academic types tend to be out of touch with the real, everyday world.
shareBecause, of course, Shrek is set in “the real, everyday world,” as are all other fairytales.
I’d guess that what you wanted to say is that you believe, based on God only knows what kind of experience you have, that scholars lack the common touch. To which I reply, Who the hell wants to be common?
I'm talking about "the real, everyday world" of what people outside of the ivory tower actually enjoy sitting down to watch with a bowl of popcorn after a long day. Not every movie needs to be some profound cinematic masterpiece worthy of a doctoral thesis.
shareI hate Shrek and have hated it since I was 15. The music, the animation, the humor and everything about it just makes me dislike it. Sorry for ruining you not meeting anyone who hated it.
sharethought I was the only one :P
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I adore Shrek, it is one of those movies that I can watch any time and be in the mood for. But, I will confess to not being all that into the sequels.
We wanted to show it to my Dad right when it came out on video, but he was resisting (he isn't all that into movies in general, and animation in particular). But in the very beginning, during the opening credits, he cracked up laughing when Shrek is in the muddy water and kills the fish. He did end up enjoying the movie, though.
Me neither, i once asked some people what there favourite CGI animated movie was and a lot of them said Shrek. It's a good movie. One of my favourite Dreamworks films.
shareI know I'm in the minority but I really, really dislike Shrek. I find the humor to be obnoxiously unfunny, but mostly I dislike Shrek because it has influenced nearly all animated films made since then to be overly self-aware and parodical in nature, what with all the unnecessary Matrix and Sir Mix-a-Lot references, to make preteens feel like they're watching a "grown-up" comedy. Shrek has marked this period of animation as one that sacrifices good story-telling for desperate attempts at being hip.
shareThose are my exact thoughts.
I felt pecisely what you wrote when I first watched it, haven't changed my mind since.
No. Disney's Hercules did it first. Funny how nobody seemed to remember that movie, buy virtually everyone remembers Shrek. That's only to reinforce how iconic Shrek is.
shareI've never met anyone in real life who doesn't like the movie. Seen a lot on these boards though.
shareI don't like Shrek. In fact, i pretty much despise the entire series. The jokes are crass, the humor is juvenile (and not in a good way. I literally cringed at the transsexual princess. Are the producers insane?), and the faux post-modernistic elements were utterly deranged. Shrek and the Donkey were likable characters and this must perhaps account for the film's popularity, for everything else was just vile and degrading to an uncomfortable degree. That this film could be ranked so high in this site is a mute testament to the general degeneration of western values.
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I agree on this, I loved the first one, liked the second one and just by the looks of the third one I didn´t go see it and I didn´t see the next. If I hated the first one why bother to see them all.
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The jokes are crass, the humor is juvenile (and not in a good way. I literally cringed at the transsexual princess. Are the producers insane?)
i assume "transsexual princess" you mean the wolf that dresses as granny?I think the person was talking about the "ugly stepsister" from the second movie. The woman bartender with the male voice. That's the only one I can think of.
Didn't like it from the get-go.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
The only person I've ever met who didn't like Shrek was an obsessive Disney fan. Don't get me wrong; I'm as nostalgically fond of Disney movies as anyone. But I was a little frustrated that she was so put off by the bits of Disney teasing that went on in the film.
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