Review on the movie Shrek

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I am doing well.

 It's been raining around here so it's pretty muggy, which reminds me of Japanese summer.

Guess what!  Our water tank is full now!! How exciting!

In the last entry I mentioned that I had been working on writing a review on the movie Shrek,

and I have finished it. So It would be great if you read it.  The first draft had a long summary of the movie, 

so I made it shorter in the second one.  Maybe I shouldn't have it in the review but you know, I put a lot of 

effort in it so I just didn't delete it.

Here is the review. ↓↓

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Movie review on Shrek                                    

 

‘I have never seen such a well-made animation movie before!’  This was the first impression that came to my mind when I watched the movie, Shrek. Everything on the screen was so realistic that I couldn’t even believe my eyes. This movie was released in 2001 and it was awarded an Academy Award of Best animated feature in 2001. Usually animation films are for kids but with this movie, even adults enjoy it very much. It is a very entertaining and compelling movie.

 

This movie’s main character Shrek is an ugly green ogre (voice of Mike Myers). He lives peacefully all by himself in his swamp. He is frightened and hated by human and he thinks that’s the way it is and he enjoys his lonely isolated life. But one night the quietness gets deprived by fairy tale characters including talkative Donkey (voice of Eddie Murphy), They say they were forced to come to the swamp by the order of Lord Farquaard. So he decides to go to see Farquaard to get his life back, and sets out for a quest with Donkey. He talks to Farquaard and he promises Shrek to give back his swamp in the way it used to be in return for rescuing the Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz) from the castle guarded by a dreadful dragon. It was an unexpected offer, but Shrek takes it and goes on another quest.  After the exciting battle against the dragon, he manages to rescue Fiona. As they spend time together, he finds himself to be attracted to Fiona but he doesn’t know what to do. This could remind us adults of our first love in our childhoods.

 

Through his journeys Shrek learns to build an indispensable friendship with Donkey and he also realizes that he is not a cruel monster as what he always thought him to be. This scene where Shrek describes ogres as onion because ogres have layers like onion as well could make you feel a bit sympathetic. I think this is a main theme of this movie for viewers, which is ‘ Don’t judge a book by its cover ‘, or’  True beauty is in the inside’ . The more we get to know Shrek, the more we get to find out his true personality, which is very lovable and trustworthy.

 

This movie Shrek is made up of a lot of humor and funny gags throughout the show, which is very amusing and also its computer animation is awesome. Its music is also spot-on to each scene and very effective. Voice actors pulled off their roles perfectly, especially I admire Eddie’s work. His dubbing makes the character of Donkey even more annoying and more lovable.

 

Shrek is a pretty short movie, which goes only for one and half hours. The story is more like a comedy than a fairy tale and there are lots of twists and fun.  It is such a wonderful movie that I can recommend to anyone.

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Thanks for reading. Have a nice weekend!