Shrek

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Shrek
Official poster
Directed by	Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson
Produced by	Jeffrey Katzenberg Aron Warner John H. Williams
Written by	Screenplay: Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Joe Stillman Roger S. H. Schulman Book: William Steig
Starring	Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz John Lithgow
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams John Powell
Editing by	Sim Evan-Jones
Studio	Pacific Data Images DreamWorks Animation
Distributed by	Theatrical United International Pictures North American DreamWorks SKG Home Universal Pictures (through DreamWorks label until 2006) Paramount Pictures (2006-present) Television CBS Television Distribution (2006–present)
Release date(s)	United States May 18, 2001 Australia June 21, 2001 New Zealand June 28, 2001 United Kingdom June 29, 2001
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US$60 million
Gross revenue	Worldwide $484,409,218[1]
Followed by	Shrek 2

Shrek is a 2001 computer-animated American comedy film, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and starring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, the film was produced by DreamWorks Animation. Shrek was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a category introduced in 2001. It was released on VHS and DVD on November 2, 2001.

The film stars Mike Myers as a large, strong, solitude-loving, intimidating Scottish ogre named Shrek, from the German word "Schreck" meaning "terror" or Yiddish word שרעק, meaning "fear". Shrek also features Cameron Diaz as the beautiful but very down-to-earth and feisty Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey named Donkey, and Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad.

The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. Furthermore, Shrek was made the mascot for the company's animation productions. It was critically acclaimed as an animated film worthy of adult interest, with many adult-oriented jokes and themes but a simple enough plot and humor to appeal to children. It made notable use of popular music—- the soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, Eels, Joan Jett, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, The Baha Men, and Rufus Wainwright (covering Leonard Cohen).

During June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"— the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community Shrek was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the animated genre, and the only non-Disney-Pixar film on the top ten.^[2][3] It is also third on Bravo's 100 funniest movies. Shrek was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the "100 Greatest Family Films", losing out on the top spot to E.T..^[4]

Contents 1 Cast 2 Soundtrack 3 Influences 4 Other media 4.1 Books 4.2 Video games 4.3 Comic books 4.4 Broadway 5 Reception 6 Sequels and Spin-offs 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Cast

• Mike Myers - Shrek
• Eddie Murphy - Donkey
• Cameron Diaz - Princess Fiona
• John Lithgow - Lord Farquaad
• Conrad Vernon - Gingerbread Man
• Chris Miller - Geppetto/ Magic Mirror
• Cody Cameron - Pinocchio / The Three Little Pigs
• Michael Galasso - Peter Pan
• Christopher Knights and Simon J. Smith - Three Blind Mice
• Christopher Knights - Thelonius
• Aron Warner - Big Bad Wolf
• Jim Cummings - Captain of the Guards
• Jerome De Guzman - Blind Mouse
• Vincent Cassel - Monsieur Hood (a French rendition of Robin Hood)
• Kathleen Freeman - Old Woman (Donkey's ex-owner)
• Andrew Adamson - Duloc Mascot (a man dressd in a suit that looks like Lord Farquaad)

Dragon, Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, The Three Bears and several other characters are not speaking roles and are thus uncredited

[edit] Soundtrack

Two soundtracks were released for the original motion picture:

• Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture, the lyrical soundtrack by various artists
• Shrek: Original Motion Picture Score, the instrumental score, composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell

[edit] Influences

Previous films and TV shows, such as Fractured Fairy Tales and The Princess Bride, have parodied the traditional fairy tale. However, Shrek itself has noticeably influenced the current generation of mainstream animated films. Particularly after Shrek 2, animated films began to incorporate more pop culture references and end-film musical numbers. Such elements can be seen in films like Ice Age 2, Robots, and Chicken Little. It also inspired a number of CG-animated films which also spoofed fairy tales, or other related story genres, often including adult-oriented humor, most of which weren't nearly as successful as Shrek, such as Happily N'Ever After, Doogal, Igor, and Hoodwinked!.^[5]

[edit] Other media

[edit] Books

Original story on which the film is based:

• Steig, William (1990). Shrek!, Sunburst Paperback. ISBN 0-374-46623-8

[edit] Video games

Several video game adaptations of Shrek have been published on various game console platforms.

• Shrek
• Shrek 2
• Shrek Smash n' Crash Racing
• Shrek: Hassle at the Castle
• Shrek Super Slam
• Shrek: Extra Large
• Shrek: Super Party
• Shrek the Third
• Shrek n' Roll
• Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys

[edit] Comic books

• In 2003, Dark Horse Comics released a Shrek three-issue mini-series comic book adaptation, which was collected into a trade paperback.^[6]

[edit] Broadway

A musical version of Shrek, with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, opened on Broadway at The Broadway Theatre beginning previews on November 9, 2008 and opening December 14, 2008. It stars Brian d'Arcy James in the title role, Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad, Daniel Breaker as Donkey, and John Tartaglia as Pinocchio and the Magic Mirror. The musical had a tryout in Seattle, Washington in August and September 2008. The musical received eight Tony Award nominations including Best Musical^[7] as well as twelve Drama Desk Awards nominations,^[8] ten Outer Critics Circle Award nominations,^[9] and three Drama League Award nominations.^[10] It won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design.

[edit] Reception

Shrek was received well. It holds an 89% positive response rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 169 professional reviews.^[11] The film made $42,347,760 during an opening weekend averaging $11,805, making it the highest grossing film that week beating The Mummy Returns on its third week with $20 million. The film stayed in cinemas for more than 29 weeks (roughly over 206 days) with following Shrek 2 at 21, and Shrek the Third with 12. It made $267,665,011 domestically, international reaches $216,744,207, for a worldwide total of $484 million, making it the second highest-grossing animated film of the year behind Monsters Inc. It is the fourth highest-grossing film of 2001 behind Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Monsters Inc.

The film was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^[12]

[edit] Sequels and Spin-offs

• Shrek 4-D (2003) (Theme Park Attraction)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Shrek the Halls (2007) (Short film)
• Shrek the Musical (2008) (Theatre)
• Shrek Forever After (2010)
• Scared Shrekless (2010) (Short film)
• Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer (2011)
• Shrek 5 (2013)

[edit] See also

• List of animated feature-length films
• List of computer-animated films
• List of fairy tale characters in Shrek

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Shrek

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Shrek

• Official website
• Shrek at the Internet Movie Database
• Shrek at Rotten Tomatoes
• Shrek at Metacritic
• Shrek at Box Office Mojo
• Tom Hester - Shrek Character Designer
• William Steig's web page describing the original 1990 story book
• Shrek Rendering Statistics

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