It wasn't as relatable as the first one, and I feel like that works to its determent.
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I like the first two Shreks (never bothered with the others) but they set a bad tone for animated films in the US, so many movies for so long have used Shrek's style of humor and tone as the default baseline for an animated movie.
What once felt fresh quickly felt stale.
What once felt fresh quickly felt stale.
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Shrek was an instant classic. It went off the rails after the third film.
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Shrek 2 was the best one, wtf are you talking about?
Shrek 1 was nice as a start point about showing the other side of a typical "fairy-tale" villain.
Shrek 2 was pretty good, expanding more of the world they live and even having the classical hero as a villain (that blonde piece of shit man).
Shrek 3 derailed too much but is a fun movie.
Shrek 4 is strange and really a filler movie.
Shrek 2 was pretty good, expanding more of the world they live and even having the classical hero as a villain (that blonde piece of shit man).
Shrek 3 derailed too much but is a fun movie.
Shrek 4 is strange and really a filler movie.
Samson Pumpkin Jr.
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Shrek reminds me of Etika. RIP Etika, what a legend.
Shrek btfo Lucina
Shrek btfo Lucina
Fuck the movies, real OG(re)s remember 1990 Shrek
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I did love Shrek 1 when I first saw it when I was 12, I enjoyed Shrek 2 a lot as well, but I was 14, just young enough to still care, when Shrek 3 came out I was 17 and Shrek 4 I was 20, I think you can imagine I no longer cared about Shrek by that point lol.
Not that I'm not still an adult that consumes children's media sometimes and I think that's fine, but some stuff really is just more interesting when you're younger and doesn't really work as well when you're above a certain age.
Tons of movies adopted Shrek's snarky tone, that snark felt so bold and refreshing for a kid's movie when it debuted in 2001, you also have to remember that CGI animation was still very much a novelty in itself 20 years ago.
But as time went on and 3D replaced 2D more and more and so many 3D animated movies adopted Shrek style snark as the default tone the novelty got old quick, at least for me, but that's why I still went to see movies like Up in the theater after I had stopped caring about Shrek and I think that's why Pixar has the following it has is because they always had more genuine emotional content (or least they used to)
Also, dance party endings, remember when every non-Pixar CGI film had to have dance party endings?
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I took my kid brothers to Hoodwinked 2 at a nigger infested cinema in their neighborhood and the audio was off by about 10 seconds, the entire film. Every time I am in that city I think about burning that fucking cinema down, even to this very day.
I consider Shrek 1 one of my favorite films ever, but yeah, I agree. It was created as satirical and pokes fun at conventional animations at the time. Most notably Disney. Unfortunately, like most popular things, people only saw the superficial details such as the irreverent and gross out humor and applied it to everything made since then.
