A title Shrek is taken from either a Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) meaning 'fear, terror'.

A film features a voices of Mike Myers as a large green troublesome ogre named Shrek, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey, and John Lithgow as the vain Lord Farquaad.

A voice of Shrek was originally recorded by Chris Farley. When his demise, Mike Myers was brought on to replenish him. When Myers experienced completed providing a voice for a character & the motion-picture show was swell into production, he asked to become allowed to re-record tons of his lines around the "Scottish accent" similar to the one his mother utilized while she told him bedtime stories.

It was critically acclaimed as an alive film worthy of big interest, by having numerous adult-oriented jokes & themes however the elementary plenty plot & humor to appeal to kids. It manufactured notable utilize of pop music—a soundtrack includes music by Smash Mouth, The Proclaimers, Jason Wade, The Baha Men, and Rufus Wainwright.

A film was highly successful around release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Walt Disney Pictures in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation. What is more, Shrek was processed a mascot for the company's animation productions.

Plot

the story tells how else a ogre Shrek is forced by Lord Farquaad to rescue Princess Fiona from either a dragon for Farquaad to marry. Along the way, Shrek befriends a talking Donkey, & lessens taken sustaining with Fiona.

Shrek resides the quite & lonely life inside his little Swamp, until his peace is disturbed by tons animals of fairy tales settling down within his swamp, exiled by Farquaad. Farquaad agrees to call for back the animals inside case Shrek rescues & will bring to him Princess Fionthe, world health organization is imprisoned in a castle restrained by a dragon, waiting to become rescued by Prince Charming.

When numbers of (mis)risky venture in which Shrek is systematically irritated per friendly however too talkative Donkey, Shrek manages to rescue Fiona from either a dragon. A female dragon lessens gaga by having Donkey. Fiona thinks that Shrek is Prince Charming, prior to existence shocked to call for that her rescuer is actually an Ogre. Shrek, underneath his hard & non-nurturing exterior, devolops romanticist feelings for Fiona.

En route back, Donkey discovers that Fionthe is under a curse because of which she turns into an Ogre nightly. A just way to break a curse is to become kissed by her avowedly love. Spell Fiona laments to Donkey that she is horrible, Shrek (world health organization getting eventually manufactured higher his mind to propose was bringing flowers to her) part overhears & thinks that Fiona is calling him horrible.

the misunderstanding induces a bitterly split when Shrek & Donkey last back to the Swamp when Fiona & Farquaad produce wedding arrangements. At a survive moment Shrek realises his mistake & travels on the back of the dragon it antecedently battled (world health organization is today Donkey's girlfriend) to a wedding hall & crashes the wedding. When a dragon eats Farquaad a moment fallowing his marriage to Fiona, Donkey makes the brash remark "Celebrity Marriages never last, do they?"

Meanwhile a Sun sets & Fiona is turned into an Ogre once more. Shrek today kisses Fionthe, however instead of this turning her back to a human, she stays Ogre. While Fiona says that a kiss was supposed to turn her beautiful, Shrek says that she was beautiful. This ending stresses a relativity of beauty, so lending a allegory its lesson.

A film contains parodies of several fairytale stories and classic Disney films, and possibly The Matrix. Lord Farquaad's face visually resembles Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who fired todays DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg from Disney in 1994.

Box Office Totals

Budget - $60,000,000 Marketing dollars and cents - $45,000,000 Opening Weekend Gross (Domestic help) - $42,347,760 Total Household Grosses - $267,665,011 Total Overseas Grosses - $216,744,207 Total Worldwide Grosses - $484,409,218

Main cast
Mike Myers - Shrek Cameron Diaz - Princess Fiona Eddie Murphy - Donkey John Lithgow - Lord Farquaad

Songs and performers
"All Star" - Smash Mouth "Meditation" - Antonio Carlos Jobim "On the Road Again" - Eddie Murphy "Welcome to DuLoc" "Friends" - Eddie Murphy "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett "Whipped Cream" - Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass "I'm on My Way" - The Proclaimers "Escape" (Pina Colada Song) "Merry Men" - Rupert Holmes "My Beloved Monster" - Eels "Stay Home" - Self "You Belong to Me" - Jason Wade "Best Years of our Lives" - Baha Men "Hallelujah" - Rufus Wainwright "Like Wow" - Leslie Carter "Try a Little Tenderness" - Eddie Murphy "It is You (I Have Loved)" - Dana Glover "I'm a Believer" - Smash Mouth

Sequels

Shrek 2 was released in May 19, 2004 and quickly overtook Disney's Finding Nemo as the greatest grossing opening weekend for an alive feature.

Shrek Triplet. The sequel thereupin title was announced on June 2, 2004. Based on data from a studio, it was originally planned for release in a wintertime of 2006, (since delayed to 2007), & members of the crew come to include the writing team of Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman and Jon Zack, and the three lead voices from the previous movies: Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, and Justin Timberlake as King Arthur. Shrek Three is presently inside pre-production.

Other media

Original story in which a film is depending: Steig, Wiliam (1990). Shrek, Sunburst Softback book. ISBN 0-374-46623-8

Likewise many video game adaptations of Shrek have been published in various game console platforms.

Within late 2005 Shrek is freed on the Game Boy Advance Video format.