Shrek

Turning the fairy-tale genre on its head was a clever, if not totally novel, notion at the time, and Shrek still retains much of its ironic charm 20 years later.

Here is a movie of the times, funny, enjoyable, perfect-looking, and altogether original in a way that might cause us to look again at the meaning of the word.

Shrek is alive, and with dark, sly and absolutely hilarious irreverence lampooning every once-sacred characteristic of the nursery kingdom. Shrek is a subversive joy..

With improbable finesse it buffs up some of the oldest tropes of storytelling and then gives them a mischievous tilt, so that we appear to be watching a celebration of a genre and a sneaky subversion of it at the same time.

What the film lacks is the faintest glimmer of charm.

Shrek may not have the class of Buzz Lightyear, but he's a lovable great lunk, and you could do a lot worse this summer than see this.

What's not to love about Dreamworks' long-awaited digital delight? It's a hip, fresh and deliciously subversive spin on classic fairy tales.

Smart, funny, deliciously hip, irreverent and just plain lovable, it's for everyone from pre-school to post retirement.

Too much of "Shrek" seems like gags dreamed up by jaded adults.

Everything about Shrek is good. It’s all at once such an oddball movie and a towering achievement in animation&#59; I think one fuels the other. Hot take: Shrek is a great movie!