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Line 1: {{work}} === ''Shrek'' ~~film series =~~== * [[Adaptation Displacement]]: You probably won't find a lot of people who have even heard of ''[[wikipedia:Shrek!\|Shrek!]]'' by Willaim Steig. So much was added to this little story that about the only thing it and the movies have in common is... a grumpy ogre named Shrek, a donkey, and an "ugly" princess. * [[~~Big~~Non ~~Lipped~~Sequitur ~~Alligator Moment~~Scene]]: Monsueir Hood's appearance in the original movie.▼ * [[Badass Decay]]: [[Subverted Trope\|Subverted]] with AU!Puss In Boots. He starts as lazy, fat housecat, but regains his badassery when the time is right. <!-- Examples go onto a YMMV page because somebody thinks they should be here. If you don't, that's just proof that YMMV - it isn't a reason to remove the entry. -Robkelk, speaking with his mod hat on. --> ▲* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: Monsueir Hood's appearance in the original movie. * [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Gingerbread Man. * [[Complete Monster]]: Rumpelstiltskin in the fourth film is easily the most vile and downright cruel villain in the series, with all of his actions taken very seriously even whilst he himself can be [[Laughably Evil]]. * [[First Installment Wins]]: The first film is considered by fans as the best due to the satirical tone and simpler plot. * [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The cover of Barracuda. Heck yes. * [[Fountain of Memes]]: Since the 2010s, the franchise as a whole has generated tons of memes. That and [[Disney Creatures of the Farce\|Snow White's beautiful woodland friends' lullaby suddenly becoming "Immigrant Song"]]. Jennifer Saunder's cover of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xApn6r6Olu8 I Need a Hero] may be better than original. Helps that the scene accompying it was totally [[Awesome Moments\|awesome]]. One can't disregard the franchise's main theme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KruvKcrD0A Fairytale], a hauntingly beautiful [[Leitmotif]] that still manages to fit with the series' tongue-in-cheek tone. Puss and Donkey's cover of "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)" in the third movie. * [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Pied Piper and Rumpelstiltskin in the fourth movie. "Do the roar." Not to mention [[Cute Kitten\|PUSS]]!... [[Badass Spaniard\|in Boots]] for the series in general. * [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Farquaad chose Shrek's swamp for his [[Fantastic Ghetto]] because he knew there was an ogre there and decided it's easier to move every other fairy tale creature to his place rather than taking pains to move ''him'' anywhere else. ** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One of the first things Shrek said to Fiona was "You were expecting Prince Charming?" And then...▼ * [[Genius Bonus]] / [[Parental Bonus]]: Panicked citizens run right out of one Farbucks...[[Lewis Black\|and into another Farbucks directly across the street]]. * [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Lord Farquaad is mostly a pompous asshole with a mean streak for most of the first movie, but he really crosses the line during the film's climax when {{spoiler\|he sees Fiona's ogre form. He freaks out and orders for Fiona to be dragged back to her tower and locked up for life while having his knights Haul off Shrek to be executed via getting drawn and quartered. Thankfully, he gets his when Dragon crashes in and devours him.}} * [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: In Russia, ''Shrek 4'' is the second-highest grossing movie OF ALL TIME, losing only to the inevitable ''[[Avatar (film)\|Avatar]]''. * [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: ''Shrek Forever After'' has AU!Puss being reduced to merely Fiona's pet - but after seeing his origins in the [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Puss in Boots]]'', can we really consider ''that'' as the 'bad' dimension? * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the second movie, Shrek is disgusted by a poster of "Sir Justin" (who [[No Celebrities Were Harmed\|looks like Justin Timberlake]]) on Fiona's ceiling. Come the third movie, where a teenage King Arthur is played by... Justin Timberlake. Even more hilarious: Justin and Cameron Diaz were dating at the time of ''Shrek 2''; by the time [[Cast Incest\|Justin became her cousin]] they had broken up. Look at the lineup of faux-[[Disney Princess\|Disney Princesses]] - [[Snow White (Disney film)\|Snow White]], [[Cinderella (Disney film)\|Cinderella]], [[Sleeping Beauty]]... ''[[Rapunzel]]''? But that wasn't a Disney movie... [[Tangled\|at the time]]. ▲ One of the first things Shrek said to Fiona was "You were expecting Prince Charming?" And then... Merlin helps Shrek see into... [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|the]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyC2ccF_-Pc FUTURE.] * [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Prince Charming. After enduring grief and humiliation now that he no longer has the power his mama gave him, all he wanted was his own Happily Ever After... which he probably would have gotten had he not stayed a [[Card-Carrying Villain\|''villain'']] by choice. * [[Magnificent Bastard]]: The Pied Piper. Anyone who can capture an army of rebels/insurgents while playing [[Crowning Music of Awesome\|"Shake Your Groove Thing"]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?\|on a pipe]] deserves this. ** The Fairy Godmother is the only [[Big Bad]] who comes close to managing this, due to sheer diabolical efficiency. * [[Memetic Mutation]]: DO THE ROAR! ** I LOVE YOU DADDY! * [[Memetic Sex God]]: In-universe, Puss. * [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Seen in the flashback in the alternate-universe when Rumpelstiltskin {{spoiler\|is shown completing the deal with Fiona's parents to make "their problems go away", doing so by making ''them'' go away.}} That would have also happened if {{spoiler\|the messenger had arrived a few seconds later}} at the beginning of the movie, but we don't know that at the time. When we see {{spoiler\|the king and queen's looks of indescribable horror as they realize they're being erased from existence}}, Rumpelstiltskin crosses the line from just a simple trickster who wanted to rule the kingdom into utterly, irredeemably evil. Don't forget the scene {{spoiler\|where he summons a council of witches where he first starts out as a loving patron, scolds them about letting Shrek escape and finally ''snaps'' into rage, killing one of them on screen by pouring water onto her. [[I'm Melting\|We all know what]] [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\|water does to witches...]] }} That just doesn't mark him evil, but a batshit insane [[Axe Crazy]]. {{spoiler\|By threatening Shrek's life and then Fiona's freedom, Lord Farquaad was pretty much asking for his [[Just Desserts]] (courtesy of Dragon).}} Heck, the first thing he does in the film is have the poor Gingerbread Man waterboarded in milk as an interrogation technique. The Fairy Godmother could be seen as a [[Jerkass]] [[Knight Templar]] at first...up until {{spoiler\|she decides to use a potion to make Fiona fall in love with Prince Charming}}. * [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Shrek's roar. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S01rd0G9peM Video here.] {{spoiler\|Watching the king and queen dissolve into nonexistence unsettled this troper a fair bit.}} Or {{spoiler\|Rumplestiltkin's falling into an eternal void...}} Hell, Rumplestiltkin himself! The dream that Shrek has after he "wakes up" from his other dream Shrek 3. * '''DA DA.''' The DVD menus for ''Shrek the Third'', especially the main menu. A bunch of curtains open, a bunch of fake clouds descend on THOUSANDS of strings (looking eerily like marionettes), and all you see is the blank, gloomy-looking, huge and [[Uncanny Valley\|not quite real-looking]] stage where Charming's play takes place. No characters, no voiceovers, just that enormous and clearly artificial stage, engulfed in darkness, with sinister music playing in the background. The submenus (for extras, language selection, etc.) sort of subvert this by having some of the main characters present, but the huge menu titles meant to look like suspended stage props are still kinda creepy. * [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Many of the games based on Shrek franchise aren't exactly critically acclaimed. * [[The Scrappy]]: The ogre babies in the third movie; they only appeared near the end of the movie, but many people dismissed them as a kid-oriented [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] marketing gimmick. Arguably [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]] in the fourth movie. * [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: When the first ''Shrek'' movie came out, it was considered a witty and refreshing break from the then-formulaic [[Disney Animated Canon]] fare, and it put [[Dreamworks Animation]] on the map. Nowadays ''Shrek'''s often blamed for killing traditional animated films and starting a trend of rather mediocre [[All CGI Cartoon\|CGI fims]] overly reliant on [[Anachronism Stew]] and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. It didn't help that Dreamworks would not only give Shrek four sequels, but rehash the formula for [[Shark Tale\|most]] [[Madagascar\|of]] [[Over the Hedge (animation)\|their]] [[Flushed Away\|other]] [[Bee Movie\|films]] until they [[Growing the Beard\|Grew the Beard]] with ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''. ** And after Dreamworks themselves grew the beard, other studios followed suit - instead of making ''Shrek'' ripoffs, they themselves started more frequently producing [[Bolt\|original]] [[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs\|and well-liked]] [[Despicable Me\|CGI movies]]. * [[Signature Song]]: "All Star". * [[Sequelitis]]: Fans are [[Broken Base\|divided]] between whether ''Forever After'' is just as bad as ''Third'' or better. Reception has been much warmer than for ''Third'', however. * [[Squick]]: at the end of ''Shrek 2'', Dragon shows up with several of her and Donkey's newborn children. You don't want to think too hard about how that happened. ** The alternate universe Donkey lampshades this when he asks Shrek about his children. ~~{{quote\| '''Donkey:''' "Are my babies cute, or do they make people feel uncomfortable?"}}~~ * [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: This film gets pretty damn dark sometimes, people. From the malicious Rumpelstiltskin who erased Fiona's parents from existence and murders people (even his own followers) for his own amusement, to the [[Crapsack World]] that AU!Far Far Away becomes, there are some ''dark'' themes explored in this film. ** Also a heavily [[Bowlderized]] version of Matt White's "Best Days" appears in the credits of [[Shrek the Third]]. Parents who bought the song may be shocked when he says "lying naked under the covers" * [[Woolseyism]]: The Polish version is arguably funnier than the original, at least to Poles. Same applies to the Hungarian version (and every other localization, I'm inclined to believe), with an extremely clever choice of voice actors and well-adapted cultural references. Line 59 ⟶ 24: The Austrian version had a different voice Actor for the Fairy Godmother than the German version. === ''Shrek the Musical'' === * [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: "A musical of ''Shrek?'' Oh c'mon! Haven't they [[Cash Cow Franchise\|milked the franchise]] enou-- wait, what? [[Sesame Street\|John]] [[Avenue Q\|Tartaglia]]'s in it? ''[[Hilarious in Hindsight\|As a puppet?!]]'' Where're they selling tickets?!" ** Same goes for the new and ''vastly'' improved Dragon puppet created for the tour. * [[Crack Pairing]]: Quite a few. And within the actual show no less! In earlier performances, the White Rabbit and the (female) Ugly Duckling were frequently seen together; in the finale, he'd propose to her. Even Pinocchio and the Shoemaker's Elf - and the Sugar Plum Fairy and Tweedle Dum later - were sometimes given [[Last-Minute Hookup\|Last Minute Hookups]]. ** Later, in one of the promotional materials, it was revealed that Gingy has a crush on the Elf. * [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Who I'd Be", the "[[Wicked (theatre)\|Defying Gravity]]" of ''Shrek''. * [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Pinocchio. The mere fact that he was originally played by [[And the Fandom Rejoiced\|John Tartaglia]] may or may not have a lot to do with it. * [[Ear Worm]]: ''"I think I got you beat, I think I got you beat! Yea-ah! Yea-ah! Yea-ah!"'' ** ''"Sing a song, yes a travel song, when ya' gotta go somewhere~"'' * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: It wasn't until a friend pointed it out that John Tartaglia, who has been a puppeteer most of his life, realized and appreciate the irony of playing Pinocchio, a literal puppet character. * [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: The initial reaction to the song "Donkey Pot Pie" being replaced with "Forever." This has died down since then. {{reflist}} [[Category:Shrek]]▼ [[Category:YMMV]] ▲[[Category:~~Shrek~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]