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100This is not your average family cartoon. Shrek is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.
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100An adorable, infectious work of true sophistication.
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100An unqualified triumph.
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100The humor of the script constantly confounds expectations, and yet Shrek still manages to say all the right things to children.
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100A riotous and wee bit PG-racy computer-animated family fable, is the most thoroughly enjoyable cartoon feature since "Toy Story" burst out of its box.
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100What sells Shrek is ultimately the full-bodied personality of its characters.
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100Hilarious and captivating.
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100This spirited and often very funny lark accomplishes something that most films in the bygone Hollywood studio era used to do but is remarkably rare in today's world of niche markets: It offers entertainment equally to viewers from 4 to 104.
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100It's wondrous, it's fabulous, it's -- all but unprecedented.
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100A movie that appeals to the eye, mind, heart and funny bone; that's a pretty good quadruple for any movie.
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91Lives happily ever after because it's such a feisty but good natured embrace of the inner ogre in everyone.
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91Funny, irreverent and moving, the unconventional Shrek may mock fairy tales, but in the process, creates its own.
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90The script, instead of being what we tolerate in order to savor the visuals, is a delight all by itself.
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90A world-class charmer that could even seduce the Academy when it hands out the first official animation Oscar next year.
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90This fractured fairy tale not only knows there's no substitute for clever writing, it also has the confidence to take that information straight to the bank.
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90It is the hilarious business of Shrek, a delightful new animated feature based on the William Steig book, to subvert all the well-worn expectations of its genre.
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90This beguiling fable, with its darkly distinctive look, does DreamWorks proud.
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90A movie whose story may be even more innovative than the superreal solidity of the animated characters.
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88A computer-animated burlesque fairy tale that generates more belly laughs than any live-action comedy since "Best in Show."
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88It's possible to groan, chuckle, wince and be moist-eyed, sometimes in a span of seven or eight minutes.
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80Colossally entertaining.
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80Shrek's first 20 minutes are so devilishly funny that letting go of pure belief doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
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80The textures are detailed, the movements are realistic and the three-dimensional feel even improves on the humor -- you may think you've seen every good "Matrix" parody, but you haven't until you see this.
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80A giggly cocktail, though it's more foam than drink.
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78Charmingly subversive animation like this is a rare thing indeed, and the fact that you don't have to be under 10 years of age to thoroughly enjoy Mr. Shrek's wild ride is an added bonus.
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75The visuals are amazingly realistic, filling the screen with authentic effects.
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75The first of this summer's would-be blockbusters that deserves to be a hit.
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75As innocent as a Disney movie -- and a lot more entertaining.
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75Suggests a summit meeting between ''The Princess Bride'' and ''Bridget Jones's Diary,'' it has a decided charm of its own.
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75While Shrek may trek into that dark territory and has some questionable values simmering beneath the surface, its characters are delightful enough and the film is just sweet-natured and visually sophiscated enough to avoid sinking into the swamp.
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63Alternately sweet and mean, sophisticated and vulgar, witty and base, dazzling and ugly, charming and charmless.
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60Am I alone in thinking that computer animation is the work of the antichrist?
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40Desperately avoiding the risk of even a half-second of boredom, the movie is wall-to-window-to-door noise, babbling, and jokes.
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40Shrek isn't clever or smart. It just wants you to think it is, through wink after wink after wink.
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