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Shrek 90 minutes, USA (2001), U
Average user rating (4.4 / 101 votes)

Hilarious, irreverent digitally-animated fable from the makers of Antz. A Scottish ogre, a talking donkey, a midget tyrant, a princess with a secret and a whole raft of fairy-tale characters poke fun at uptightness and dole out liberalism

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Shrek: Even before the credits, the 'Once Upon A Time...' tweeness of traditional animation is knocked for six. The pages of a scene-setting story-book are promptly torn up by Shrek's eponymous hero, a green ogre voiced by Mike Myers (in a variant on his Austin Powers Fat Bastard Scots accent, for some reason), and used for toilet paper.

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