Naked warriors (5/31/01)
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Shrek. [Andrew Adamson/Vicky Jenson/et al., 2001. From a book by William Steig.]
DreamWorks wipes its ass on the Disney fairy tale. With a Scottish ogre [Mike Myers], a talking donkey [read wiseass, and who but Eddie Murphy], a less-than-Handsome Prince [John Lithgow], a rather-too-easily-intimidated Magic Mirror [the CIA in Vietnam], a Perfect Town [Boulder as Disney World], a smartmouthed princess [Cameron Diaz], a lonesome dragon, and homages to professional wrestling,
The Matrix, game shows, and
Robin Hood: Men In Tights, cameos by the three blind mice and Pinocchio, a bravura performance by the Gingerbread Man, a breakdancing routine by the Three Little Pigs, and [so the animators claim, and it certainly seems plausible] an underlying skeletal model with something in excess of five hundred forty hinges. But the twists and turns they added to the fairytale plot were nearly as impressive. — The best animated feature ever made; at least for another couple of weeks.
____________Moonwalking (5/2/01)
