The Shrek movies

Almost everybody today reconizes the characters of the Shrek franchise. I have loved the franchise ever since the first movie came out in 2001. However, some of the movies are better than the others.



The first movie is probaly the most enjoyable animated PG movie i have ever seen. It is loosly based on the book "Shrek" made in 1990. I didnt know this book existed untill a few months after the movie came out. I read it when I was about 6 0r 7, and as much as I can remember, it is not very similar. Anyway, Shrek stars Mike Myers as the ogre with the same name. He is wanted and is known as being horrible and disgusting, but he enjoys his peaceful life on his swamp. While Shrek is making signs to tell people to stay off of the swamp, he runs into a Donkey named "Donkey" yeah, pretty cool huh? Well, Shrek ends up saving his life from people trying to give him away to be locked up forever. Donkey then thinks he is in debt to Shrek, but he dosent want anything to do with Donkey (who by the way, is my favorite character in the movies.) Shrek finds out that all the fairytale characters are being sent to his swamp by the tyrant, Lord Farquaad. Shrek agree's that he will rescue Farquaad's future wife, a princess named fiona, from a tower guarded by a fire breathing dragon, if he gives him his swamp back. Shrek ends up saving the princess from the tower and finds out she's a bit of a snob. At first these 2 hate eachother. That is untill Fiona overhears Shrek talking to Donkey about how everybody judges him without getting to know him. Fiona hears this and feels bad about being such a snob to him. Before you know it, they fall in love. Shrek overhears Donkey talking with Fiona about how fiona has a curse. Every night she turns into an ogre herself. Fiona ask's Donkey
how anybody could possibly love a hideous beast, refering to herself. When Shrek hears this, he thinks that she is talking about him. So as you can imagine, he's pretty upset. Shrek confronts Fiona about this at sunrise, when her curse is temporarily up. One thing leads to another and they end up having a huge fight. Princess Fiona is set to mary Lord Farquaad and Shrek gets his swamp back. Shrek regrets what he has done and trys to get her back before the marriage begins. Shrek gets to the wedding, right before the final words and stops it. The sun comes down and Fiona's true Identity is revealed. Farquaad is disgusted, and orders Shrek to be executed and Fiona to be back in her tower. Just before those things can occur, Donkey's love, Dragon arives to gobble up Farquaad. (Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the Dragon and Donkey fall in love.) So Fiona and Shrek get together and marry. This movie is great. I am not into love movies at all. This is more like a fairytale, but it is defintaly worth watching. The story, acting, and Jokes are great.




The second movie is also good, although I prefer the first one. Im not going to go into great detail like I did with the first one. So in this movie, Shrek must meet Fiona's parents. Long story short, her father hate's his guts. So he puts a hit on him. The Hitman is "Puss in Boots". After he fails to assassinate Shrek, Puss decides to join Shrek and Donkey. However, things are not well, when "Prince charming" plans to get his revenge on Shrek for marrying Fiona before he can. Meanwhile, Shrek drinks a magic potion which turns him into a human who all the ladies want. This also causes Fiona to turn back human. Donkey also takes a sip and turns into a hot-shot white Stallion. But Prince charming uses this to his advantage. Charming claims that he is Shrek. Although Fiona does not like the "new Shrek". So Fiona's father spikes Fiona's tea with a potion givin to him by the Fairy Godmother. The potion causes Fiona to fall in love with the first man she kisses. Back to Shrek, he is trying to break into the castle which she is at. Right before charming and Fiona kiss, Shrek comes in and tells Fiona that he is the REAL Shrek. Fiona can tell he is telling the truth. This angers the Fairy Godmother, and she is about to desrtoy Fiona and Shrek. Just when she is about to strike Shrek down, fiona's father jumps in front of the beam and gets turns into a frog. Which we learn he was a frog all along, but the Fairy Godmother turned him into the king that he is today. So yeah... they all live happily together, as they are turned back ino ogres. This one isnt as good as the first but it's good for a sequel.



Now it's time for Shrek the Third. Lets just get things out of the way, and say, I freaking HATE this movie! Im not even going to tell you what happens. all you need to know is that Shrek becomes nothing what an ogre should be. All he does is whine and cry like a Barbie Doll! The jokes arn't funny and it just seems like they just got all the old characters and just thought up of something they could do. Even the new character, Arthur, is as boring as watching a baked potato all day! It is simply just for the money!



The Fourth Shrek is the same, only I find it a little bit better. Fiona isnt a weak princess in this movie, she's a strong leader. We also see other ogre's in the movie, and find out that Shrek is the smallest Ogre there. Which really agrivates me. It makes it seem like he's a wimp.



Well thats my wrap on the Shrek movies. 1 and 2 are good, but 3 and 4..... not really. Just remember that this is my OPINION!



Untill next time, Im Lord Semaj, and that will be all.