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Show MAY 23, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER B3 PATIO NOW MOVIE OPEN! “IT don’t know REVIEW en . the key to success, no one reviews, no features on the dazzling computer animation — it wouldn’t matter. , Shrek would still make a ton of money, purely through summer blockbuster hype. It is more than movie; with its kids’ meal toys and product tieins, itis a sel-contained marketing j juggernaut. - Having said that, there is plenty to write about this animated fairy tale, some of ee is positive. M k e Myers is en having a blast giving his voice to... Shrek, =a4 green, oafish versus Disney and its computer mation arm, Pixar. al Please join us gol - Lunch or Dinner It began in 1998, ohen Disney released A Bugs Life and DreamWorks came out with Antz, two movies that were nearly identical in their looks and themes. Shrek continues the rivalry in ways that are awfully cute and not terribly subtle. Lord Farquaad’s castle is a cold, imposing version of coun: Disneyland, 7 ‘ . complete with turnstiles, parking lots sections named for in the comfort please everybody. z could reach out and pet him. Fiona’s features are so remarkably human, she looks like Bridget Fonda. Shrek achieves that highly desired balance of offering something for everyone — modern-day jokes for the adults about fairy tales they grew up loving, and bright, colorful characters for children (along with some totally. unnecessary bathroom humor for older kids). Don’t hurt your brain bothering to look for a plot, though. | What little story the film offers is merely an excuse for the animation, and for a dizzying array of pop culture references— many of them huchsrered some of them amusing. Like last year’s Scary Moviesscatd probably this year’s upcoming Scary Movie 2—there are enough TV, movie and pop music in-jokes to make your head spin: The Dating Game, Riverdance the dreaded Macarena, even Rupert Holmes’ Pina Colada song. | . How many times ie we Sire to see spoofs of the stop-action butt-kicking moment that defined The Matrix? And how many times do we have to hear Smash Mouth’s annoying Ail Star? The song was. overplayed when it first came out in 1999 — it of our landmark building or __ BILL COSBY our outside patio Closed on Mondays fic- ogre with a tional characScottish brogue. ters and woodSo are Eddie en puppets Murphy — aS a} from around talking donkey the - globe named Donkey singing a song and Cameron sounds The ogre Shrek (Mike Myers) and his donkey sidekick that | ; Diaz, - 4 tas (Eddie Murphy) approach the end of their journey with More than a litPrincess Fiona, Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), who has been hiding tle like It’s a whom they resa deep, dark secret in Dreamworks’ Shrek. Small World. cue from a cas| It’s hard not to tle _ complete smile because it’s so dead-on. with a moat of bubbling lava and a fireAfter a 90-minute onslaught of inbreathing dragon. And John Lithgow jokes, here’s the real punch line: Shrek steals the show, as always, as the strives to have a heart. Supposedly scheming, power-hungry Lord — there’s a message about beauty comFarquaad with a serious Napoleon ing from within, but somehow it rings — complex. hollow. _ The animation from the computer (Spoilers coming up - Head on A gurus at PDI/DreamWorks is impres- - your own risk.) : sive, with a tremendous amount of Fiona is under a curse, and turns detail to light and texture. Every blade © into an ogre herself when the sun of grass in a meadow blows in the goes down. Then she becomes a breeze. Donkey’s fur looks so soft you for 4 casual | failure is trying to ani- 435-657-1100 WASATCH COUNTY 98 South Main Wasatch County’s Source for News Heber Fp Robards, aT Unobstructed views! Over half an acre. 4-year new home with lots of extras. 2-storey plus full base- Shrek tells her she’s beautiful does she think it’s possible. He validates her — what kind of message is that for young girls? Maybe that’s not what theyll walk away remembering when the house lights come up. Maybe they'll be singing the song from the film’s big closing production number—a pe ing version of The Monkees’ I’m Believer—and run out and buy the soundtrack. Shrek ment. Valley Hills View shape of most © women in America, and her face is > ~ almost cute — except for the tiny coneshaped green ears sticking out from the sides of her head, of course. The filmmakers didn’t have the guts to go all the way and make her a hideous freak. Fiona thinks she’s “a horrible, ugly beast” as an ogre, even after Shrek falls in love with her. Only when has four screenwriters, three producers, two: directors (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson) and a partridge in a pear tree. Running time: 89 minutes. Home. Landscaping in progress with lots of room to add your own. ~ ASKING $389,000. CALL — es Realty — svelte, beautiful woman again every morning. | ‘But when she’s in ogre mode, she really isn’t that unattractive. 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