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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2024

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

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 30, 2024

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

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2022

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

Full Review | Jun 25, 2022

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.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2021

...Shrek has a positive message about accepting yourself for who you are.

Full Review | May 11, 2021

20 years later, Shrek remains a timeless animated classic thanks to its exceptional, highly-entertaining story, which comes packed with a multitude of amusing moments, and marvelous, fleshed-out characters that have you engaged every step of the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2021

Classic fairy tale fantasy. (In some ways this 20th Anniversary Special Edition 4K HD blu-ray release sharpens the relatively early [2001] CGI animation highlighting the processes flaws).

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 8, 2021

The most effective moments arrive in the form of clever visual gags related to well-known fairy tales.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2020

Shrek is unashamed of its modern flourishes. At the same time, especially for young viewers, it works very well as a straightforward and quite funny fable. The animation, coordinated by directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, is impressive.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2020

With the perfect blend of storytelling, animation, and music this is one movie (Shrek) the whole family can enjoy!

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 4, 2019

Unfortunately when you take out the humor there isn't that much going for it.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 13, 2019

The first Oscar for Best Animated Feature went to Shrek, an absurd choice to those of us who believe that Pixar's Monsters, Inc. was that year's best toon flick. Still, this is nevertheless a snappy comedy that manages to stick it to the entire genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2016

Murphy steals every scene he's in with equal parts bounce and warmth.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

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.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

Adults will find plenty to laugh at. Children will love it.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

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..

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

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.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

Even more amazing, for a movie with its share of flatulence gags, it also has a real heart. Few films have had their cake and eaten it so gleefully.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2015

The best jokes in Shrek spoof Disney tradition; the villain's lair looks suspiciously like a certain theme park's Main Street USA, and a bluebird of happiness explodes during a sugary crescendo.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 9, 2015