The Official Shrek Thread

[Jean]

My students recently took me to watch Shrek 3, on the very day it was at last released in St.Petersburg. I noticed that we - all so different - age ranging from 18 to 45 - students teachers hairdressers businessmen housewives professors (it takes all sorts to make my class) - laughed and cried and cheered in perfect unison. Doesn't happen too often, does it?

[sarajean]

omgomgomg...i took my 7 year old on saturday, and he and i both laughed through the entire thing. we keep cracking each other up by saying things like:

"they've got a piano!"

and

"where's the baby?"

[Matt]

I loved the first two and can't wait to give this one a try. The idea that you can create a movie that is for everyone is something I love.

[Jean]

only yesterday I was retelling it to my mother (a 68-year-old University professor) - my friends from DTD.net may remember that it has been our family tradition, I am good at telling and she is a genius of listening... well, she laughed, and cried, and cheered just like we had done

[Odetta]

We saw this movie yesterday! Very funny!

We walk around saying..."the only thing you'll be king of is king of the STUPIDS!"

[Fall of Gilead]

On Ebert and Roeper they gave it two thumbs down. Most of their gripes about the movie seemed rather small.

[Jean]

...and the moral is: never listen to Ebert... let alone Roeper.

[Fall of Gilead]

Totally. I was trying hard just to figure out what their gripes were really about. They complained that the makers of the movie couldn't decide whether to be serious or not during a couple scenes. They also said something about only the minor characters were given the funniest material. I was definitely scratching my head after that.

[sarajean]

it's true. the minor characters did have the funniest material, but i loved that about it.

the whole worcestershire high school scene was my favourite.

"whither art thou going? to the top!"

[Erin]

I saw it last night and LOVED it! Darrin and I laughed like crazy.

I just love Puss. Something about Antonio's voice coming out of a cute little cat is just so funny.

And I agree, I liked the whole high school thing. Gweniviere as a valley girl was great and the sign on Donkey's butt that said "Thou Suck-eth" :lol:

[Jean]

The quotation below comes from Harry Potter thread:


So i'm trying to read lisey's story and I just can't focus. So I picked up the half blood prince and just opened it up in the middle and started reading. I LOVE THIS BOOK! Truly any harry potter book can just be picked up and read at at point and it is always a good time, imo.

I was trying to watch a movie... I won't say which, I'll save it for Movies thread... and, just like maerlyn, I just coudn't focus. The thing is, in addition to the movie being extraordinarily boring, I am having some big problems in the so-called real life now, and I needed something good.

My mother called, half-laughing half-crying, as people do when they are really deeply touched, in a good way, and happy. She said she had just watched Shrek 2 [emotional outbursts about the cat! The Cat!!! and the rest of it, of course!], and thought I just had to do the same immediately. And that's what I did, and she was right. I am not depressed any longer, and I do believe my problems will work out just fine... Thanks to mother, Shrek, and a PM from one very good person (thank you sweetheart http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_wub.gif).

[Frunobulax]

Please don't hate me....I don't like the Shrek films.

[Jean]

I think I even know why. Can you please outline your reasons, so I know if my guess is correct? http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_tongue.gif

[Frunobulax]

No, Jean, let's have you guess first this time.

[Odetta]

you are the president of the Michael Myers Hate Fan Club?

[Frunobulax]

Nope.

[sarajean]

you don't like fantasy creatures?

[Frunobulax]

Nope.

[Odetta]

you're just being silly???

[Hannah]

I saw Shrek on a date when I was 18. My date laughed at all the wrong parts. I didn't go on a second date with him. Fast forward to three years later, when I run into the same guy at Blackhawk.

That makes for an awkward chat. "Hey, didn't we see Shrek together like three years ago?" :doh:

[Jean]

No, Jean, let's have you guess first this time.
I'll start with what I didn't like about it. First, the abundance of physiological jokes that I most often just don't find all that funny; next, and more important, the creative method itself (mocking existing contexts), which I am used to associating with post-modern creative impotence. However, method or no method, this time it was creatively productive, so I came to terms with the main principle, too.

For you I am afraid it is not sophisticated enough. It is all truisms and platitudes, like, being faithful and kind-hearted is better than being treacherous and evil, and being a villain doesn't pay, and though roses are beautiful, a philosopher can see beauty in the mud, and there's no place like home and all that. You must lack the paradox there. Some twist of mind, some unexpected angle, some discovery. I know I would have, were I much younger... now, though, I can't but applaud truisms because I know how immensely difficult it is to defend the truth of a truism in our sad world. (Irony and pity - Hemingway says, supported by Heller and Amis. Sincerity and humor and love, the old bear responds, supported by Dickens and Wodehouse and G.K.Chesterton.)

P.S. Difference in sense of humor is definitely a touchstone:

My date laughed at all the wrong parts
It is a perfectly sound reason for breakup.

[Frunobulax]

Jean got it--it was too dumb even for me, who loves Strangers With Candy. The only reason I'd see Shrek 3 is because I love Amy Sedaris.

[sarajean]

you like strangers with candy?!

ugh.

[Frunobulax]

Yes I do, sarajean. The movie sucked majorly, but the show was and remains hilarious.

[tamez]

I really don't like Shrek either.
I like cartoon movies for the eye candy factor
most of them are just so gorgeous but....
Shrek is just so... ugly :(

i like the backgrounds and stuff but, i can't get into watching
something where the main character is so hideous
i realize by admitting this i'm revealing that i'm not buying in to
the moral of the story (at least of the first one, i haven't seen
the others...) i promise, i'm not that shallow but.. this is a cartoon! as far
as i'm concerned it's supposed to look good.
obviously, the movies are funny, i just can't get down
with some of the art work on them....

[sarajean]

our neighbour who works at a local movie theatre gave drake the shrek the third movie poster yesterday. the huge one that they hang outside with the lights behind it? yeah. he was so excited, i think he almost wet himself. :lol:

[She-Oy]

I took Drew to see Shrek last night (he actually saw it at his summer camp, some kid brought a pirated copy to the school...LOL). It was good. I laughed, but I think I'm just a little over the same Shrek antics. I hope they stop with this one.

Puss will always be my favorite character though. However, I'm a big fan of donkey and dragon's kids. I want one of those as a pet!LOL

[Jean]

they started publishing this - don't know what it is called - here, that's the first issue:

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/medium/IMG_1504.JPG

the first is specifically dedicated to The Cat, so it comprises lots of his pictures, and even this medallion:

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/IMG_1506.JPG http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/IMG_1507.JPG

- the flip side isn't of course a stone, it's glass, but it's splendid anyway!

There also are puzzles, recepies, games, handicrafts, stickers, you name it.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/medium/IMG_15091.JPG

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/medium/IMG_1508.JPG

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/536/medium/IMG_1505.JPG

well, I understand it's for little kids... but it kept my wife and me busy for a few wonderful hours... now waiting for the next issue

and I wish sarajean http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_wub.gif was here!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

[Jean]

bears heard from their students that there is going to be Shrek 4, did google search and actually found this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek_Goes_Fourth)

Old news for mankind, giant news for one bear!

::waits impatiently::

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/awake.gif

[sarajean]

:excited:

i like the sounds of the plot summary. and with "frumpy pig skin" as a villain! i'm all over that.

[Nerak]

A friend of mine helped do the animation for the Shrek Christmas special.