Had it NOT been for Eddie Murphy as the talking ASS, this movie would have really blown.. thankfully, for Dreamworks, and the misguided public, his comedic talent allowed me to sit htru this film in it's entirity.

Anyone else care to comment?

I don't understand how the movie industry works sometimes?!?! This movie was not for kids. It was rated PG but contained swearing and many sexual innuendos. Many of these things I'm sure a child would not even notice but I would not be comfortable taking a child to this flick. They probably wouldn't like it anyway.

Personally I didn't find it all that bad, as long as you go in as an adult and think of the movie from that point of view. There are many sutle jokes that you have to be paying close attention to even notice.

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What a movie. Beats down every god damned animation ever created by Disney (although it is in 3D). The animation and the movement of each of the characters is so realistic that you might think that you are actually watching a movie and not an animation. But WHAT AN ANIMATION. So much detail given not only to the characters but to every single thing in the background e.t.c. Also. The plot and the jokes made in the whole film are just AMAZING. Why don't they make a real movie with jokes like the ones included in Shrek. Imagine singing and a bird blowing up because it is tweeting TOO LOUD!!!! Or imagine a Female Dragon falling in love with a "noble steed" . Eddie Murphy's voice is so realistic as a donkey. Mike Myers is great and of course the great princess Cameron Diaz. Anyone screening a print should definately see it. It's just AMAZING. Kids will love it. Adults will love it. YOU will love it
Demetris Thoupis

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I went to see this movie with a friend using two free tickets that we got at a Kroger grocery store nearby the previous week. We were both very impressed by the quality of the animation. We thoroughly enjoyed the movie and its many jokes.

I think most of the "adult-oriented" jokes will probably go over young kids' heads, as mentioned earlier, although my friend stated that this was not a movie to take kids to see.

The only unfortunate thing about this movie is it was shown misframed with the image center 2 feet too low on a screen roughly 17 feet high. Painfully obvious during previews and mildly noticeable during the entire movie, the misframing marred the experience. I hope when I see it again elsewhere, I'll have better luck. Studios need to do something to flat films to force proper framing to prevent this. The showing immediately before the one we attended was run misframed the same way (We went in while the other showing was ending).

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site

Why didn't you go put and complain about the framing during the trailers? Or at least send your friend.

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One thing that is interesting is that no one has brought up movie grills in this situation. I don't know how it is done around the country, but at the local movie grills, each customer is given a tiny little led light that they just turn on whenever they want a waiter to refill their drink, popcorn, order a burger, or whatever. The nice part about this is that if something is wrong with the projection, you can just flip the light on and a waiter will come running to whom you can complain to. This is not really a necessity at the local grills in Dallas, for they both have excellent operators, but I can see this as an interesting benefit to other grills around the country.

This topic is starting to wander pretty badly. If anyone would like to make a further comment, please do so in the Film Handler's Forum on a new thread (referencing this thread). Thanks

The animation was very good, and in some cases, outstanding, but everything seemed a little cold and calculated.

I base my opinions on film on a rule stated about 20 years ago on the original Siskel/Ebert show on PBS. Simply stated, if you don't care about the characters, you won't care about the movie. And I just couldn't care about the characters.

I also found the Scotland accent by Mike Myers to be annoying and pointless. From what I've read, this is a case of someones ego going WAY overboard and adding nothing to the film.

I was really disappointed. I really wanted to love this movie, but I just couldn't do it. It just didn't have the "heart" that the Pixar films have.

Sorry, Shrek...nice try, but I just didn't like it.

Mark Lensenmayer

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"As a moral to young men who come down to the city, don't go round breaking people's tambourines."

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The "earwax" candle was great.

In the showing I attended tonight, there were a lot more kids than in the Friday showing I attended. The kids laughed at all the jokes that I thought would go over their heads. They're obviously being exposed to things at a much earlier age than they used to be.

Tonight, I drove out to Decatur to Carmike Century Cinema 8 to see this one.
This time, the framing was absolutely perfect, although the image was absolutely perfectly focused on the left half and the right half was so poorly focused that it was noticeable from the auditorium rear. Small text was practically unreadable on the far right. Maybe when this comes out on DVD, I'll get to see a good-looking version of it. This movie is only playing at the "bad" theatres in my area. You can have proper framing, or proper focus, but not at the same time. Take your pick.

I won't mention any other presentation quality details in this thread, unles I see a perfect one of "Shrek" somewhere, since it caused this thread to unravel a bit.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site