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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Sims, David (May 19, 2014). "Why Is the Internet So Obsessed With Shrek?". The Wire (The Atlantic).
McCue, Devin (February 15, 2021). "Shrek, the Unacknowledged Hero of Queer Youth, 20 Years Later". (The Mary Sue).

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Mike Myers

After Chris Farley died in December 1997, in August 1998. Mike Myers was given the role. Please add this date on "Production".^[1]

References

^ "Notes". www.tcm.com.

Home Video release

the shrek was also released on Gameboy Advance Video, but it isnt listed in the Home Video release section. in shrek 2 wiki its listed but on this shrek 1 it isnt here. should it be added ?

The wide release date not being highlighted on Google, instead the festival date

Why is that? Any way to correct it?--CreecregofLife (talk) 02:19, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Budget

The Numbers says the budget for this film was $50 million.[1] Template:Infobox film says not to cherry pick budget figures. Please include both budget figures. -- 109.78.196.88 (talk) 23:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2022

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Laners525 (talk) 13:30, 6 April 2022 (UTC) i see somthing in the plot that has a weird run on sentence i would like to change that[reply]

Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 15:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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somethang with shell 208.38.250.6 (talk) 18:58, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Notes". www.tcm.com.

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