Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
That's what it feels like to me. Because like, it could show different versions of the same story. It could show that despite all the polish and the glam, there's some truth, something valuable to a fairy tale.
But no, it's more interested in attacking Disney. And while it's right to do so, it seems like a vicious and blind attack.
Shrek II is decent. Very different feel from the first, based largely on doubts in the relationships formed in the first one. Very entertaining climax sequence based around "Holding Out For A Hero". 6/10 at least, would watch again.
Shrek 3 is...contrived. Antagonists are largely cast-offs from the second film, plot goes in a weird direction from the first two, and the ending sequence was the most clichéd thing I had seen in a long, long while.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I haven't read far enough into The Men Who Would Be King
I've heard that Shrek is the DreamWorks Animation project that Katzenberg meddled with the least in those days - but if you know anything about how the company was founded, you'll get the anti-Disney angle. I know the 2D side of DreamWorks Animation was originally heavily comprised of former Disney talent, but I wonder if PDI had a lot of them...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
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I could level a lot of criticisms at that franchise, but that's not one I'd mark down.
I am told that the first film in particular is actually a satire on what Disney does to fairy tales more than anything else.
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Shrek 3 is...contrived. Antagonists are largely cast-offs from the second film, plot goes in a weird direction from the first two, and the ending sequence was the most clichéd thing I had seen in a long, long while.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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