Animation Addicts 88: Shrek – The Anti-Fairytale

The Rotoscopers review DreamWorks’ second CGI animated film–the amazing, hilarious, irreverent Shrek.

Highlights

• Main Discussion: Shrek (2001)
• Morgan and Chelsea saw this movie in theatres together and bonded over the fairy tale and Disney parodies.
• Mason goes in depth about the lighting, rigging, animation and character designs.
• Animation technology really shows its age.
• So quotable!
• John Powell did the score. He’s like a Rotoscoper for music–Disney, DreamWorks, and everything in between.
• New DREAMWORKS theory: all DreamWorks films are biblical.
• Which Eddie Murphy character is better? Donkey or Mushu?
• This movie works because it points out the ridiculousness of fairy tales.
• Duloc is a ripoff of Disneyland. But it’s hilarious.
• Donkey is so dense, but it’s what makes him so endearing.
• The theme of layers really is critical to the whole film.
• The blatant transformation ripoff of the Beast‘s transformation. The toes!
• Voicemail: Angela and Dylan
• Don’t forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #AnimAddicts88 when talking about this episode on Twitter!

Runtime: 1:30:53, 45.2 MB

Links

• Watch Shrek: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent | iTunes
• Buy Shrek soundtrack: CD | Digital | iTunes
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• “You’re from two different worlds!” quote

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