Review 1:
"...SHREK is a world-class charmer..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.119-20 06/07/2001
Review 2:
"...SHREK is a funny, sweet, snappy fairy tale about misfits....It's impossible to ogre-state the sheer fun of SHREK..."
Source: Premiere
p.88-9 06/01/2001
Review 3:
"...Riotous....The most thoroughly enjoyable cartoon feature since TOY STORY..."
Source: USA Today
p.1D 05/16/2001
Review 4:
"...Casual, carefree, consistently amusing....Smartly constructed to appeal to children and their parents..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.1 05/16/2001
Review 5:
"...The movie is an astonishing visual delight, with animation techniques that seem lifelike and fantastical, both at once..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.27 05/18/2001
Review 6:
"...The impudent jokes keep rolling along. Mike Myers provides a sly vocal impression....It's Eddie Murphy as the smart-ass donkey sidekick who steals the show..."
Source: Movieline's Hollywood Life
p.39 06/01/2001
Review 7:
"...SHREK is an instant animated classic....Playing equally effectively as a lively romp for kids and an enormously clever comedy for adults..."
Source: Variety
p.49-58 05/07/2001
Review 8:
"...SHREK is scrappy, brash comedy, and the brio of actors adds to the dynamism..."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 05/16/2001
Review 9:
"...Mike Myers is able to both humanize and soften the character....Cameron Diaz' unorthodox take on a post-feminist fairytale princess is likewise accomplished, endearing yet amusing..."
Source: Box Office
p.101 07/01/2001
Review 10:
"...SHREK is a film of marvels....It has a lovely vintage-illustration look, with a sylvan swamp and a wonderfully grotesque castle..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.54-5 07/01/2001