Shrek shreik
I saw Shrek and the sequel back-to-back yesterday.. again! I love it. The animation as always was awesome and I thought Mike Myers's work in it was absolutely brilliant. The voice he produced for the ogre was a piece of art I thought. Anyways this isn't meant to be a film review, dont have the time, patience nor sense of fairness to pull that off.
Something struck me during the movie and was wondering if anyone else thought the same. I mean we all enjoyed it n shit like that, some of the repartes were brilliant and it makes for a cute love story, but what about the hero of the story. Being picked up from the swamp to star in a Dreamworks bonanza is the stuff of dreams, isn't it!
Now the ogre thought he was part of a fairy tale. What, by the way, is the point of a fairy tale? A happy ending rite? But the dude got an ugly-as-hell ass chick at the end of it. How the hell is that happy by any stretch of imagination. Sure some of the girls seeing the movie, ready-to-get-fooled by the idea of love as they are, would have gone "awwwww" n shit. But I'm telling you as a guy, all through the movie Shrek was just thankful he didn't have to do a nude scene with her, for his sake and hers.
At first the guy was just happy he got a girl in the movie for all the hardwork he did riding for days through deserts n snow n all that. Then go to the castle and escape the fire-breathing dragon and reach the highest room of the tallest tower, rescue the chic, who by the way the fool could easily have kissed if he kept his helmet on. At the end of it, first of all u return the chic to a limpdick guy who's half a king ..literally..not good!
Of course a girl making eggs for breakfast for u in bed is the stuff of fairy tales! Then he sees some chemistry finally, not with a swamp fish, not a donkey,but, a princess. He must have finally been a lill thrilled to have been cast in the movie, then he acts like an ass, she acts like its a bad time of the month and we have Dreamworks-created drama before the ogre is stuck with her. Listen Shrek, if you can read this n have not been eaten by your better half already,of course you'll had great chemistry n shit during the journey from the dragons place to the wimp king, but thats whom u make friends of, not girlfriends dude... cos you may get carried away n go marry it but u still have to wake up to it in the morning, rite? You got played for a sucker man!
Somewhere in the middle of all the drama, the ogre realises he dint score on a babe, but the she-ogre scored on him, but then love n all that mush means he doesnt get time to reflect on the loss. Part 2 has the honeymoon n stuff which is all good fun n all, noone can complain abt sex. I bet they tried blindfolds n all, each one must've tried to act like they were wild, but really they were just blocking the sight. Now don't act like I'm cynical, I'd like to think I'm brutally honest. OK i hear someone asking for proof? Theres no proof more than him not wanting to go meet the parents. Dont kid me guys, we may feed the girls a lot of crap, but we know that when u don't wanna meet the parents, you're not thinking too far. Then the rest of the movie follows and its pretty regular except for the pieces of brilliance from Murphy and Myers.
Of course the marriage parties at the end of both of the movies are brilliant. The part with Pinnochio wearing girls underwear rocked, so much so that I'm convinced it had to have been thought of under the influence of alcohol at some Irish pub.
Anyways coming back to our poor ogre, from the start where the mirror crashes during credits to the point where he gets the she-ogre at the end, he really seems to get a raw deal from the movie makers. I know a lot of girls wont believe me, sure they called it love n all , but on lonely nites when he is all alone n doesnt have the donkey talkin in his ears , if you tune into the swamp n listen closely he's wondering as to how he ended with the only other chic who's as ugly as him. Well as for me I just hate them calling it a fairy tale after what they did to the ogre.

3 Comments:
hhhmmm...
Jun for one....i think when u're an ogre u'd find another ogre attractive.. n' since beauty is jus skin deep the chemistry was between 2 ogres n' not between a princess n' an ogre.. wht say??
Must agree that the Pinocchio joke in the sequel was sumthing that stuck in me head too... but how is it that u forgot to mention Puss in boots.. me thinks Antonio Banderas was pretty good too....
on the whole one hellava movie..right??
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>>Jun for one....i think when u're an >>ogre u'd find another ogre >>attractive..
did u look at the thing?!?
>>n' since beauty is jus skin deep the >>chemistry was between 2 ogres n' not >>between a princess n' an ogre.. wht >>say??
I still say he got screwed
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