For those concerned with Cliff's Notes summarization, Shrek is a basic quest movie with ribald humor, nail biting action, and yes, even romance, tossed in for good measure. The story goes a little Pop rock band, Scissor Sisters, wrote the song as part of the motion picture soundtrack, and it is the last of four excellent feel-good opening songs of the Shrek franchise. RELATED: The Shrek Franchise's 16 Best Pop-Culture References. In Shrek Forever After, Shrek is feeling disillusioned with family life and is looking back at how much has 4) Brogres. Know your meme. A “Brogre” just to refers to a, usually adult male, mega Shrek fan. The word itself is a portmanteau of “Bro” and “Ogre” and is probably meant as a parody Shrek. Lord Farquaad is the short-in-stature, ruthless ruler of Duloc. Several times in the film it is observed that, with Duloc's towering height, Farquaad may be compensating for something. Farquaad's birthday is stated to be on April 15. In his pursuit of perfection, Farquaad attempts to rid his kingdom of Fairy Tale creatures, offering a Yes actually, Shrek was never supposed to be a big success. Shrek was basically supposed to get Dreamwork’s foot in the door when it came to 3D animation and was basically a way of saying, “we can do good 3D animation just like Disney”. Since Shrek and Donkey had really become best friends by the end of Shrek, it was only natural for Shrek 2 to introduce yet another frenemy dynamic for the beloved Donkey. That frenemy, of course, came in the form of Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots, a pint-sized swashbuckler who would come to rival Donkey in terms of cuteness and snarkiness both. Theory: The Fairy Godmother Is Responsible For Fiona’s Curse. The Fairy Godmother, along with Fiona’s parents, made her debut in Shrek 2, where she wasn’t pleased to learn that Fiona had married Shrek instead of her son, and so she conspired with Harold to get rid of Shrek. It was in Shrek 2 that it was revealed that the Fairy Godmother 1. IT WAS WRITTEN BY AN 83-YEAR-OLD. Shrek was loosely based on William Steig’s 1990 picture book, Shrek! Steig was a prolific cartoonist for The New Yorker and a children’s writer who This is the transcript for the 2001 film, Shrek. (The DreamWorks Pictures logo plays out, with dreamy music playing underneath. At the end of the logo, the S's in "DreamWorks" and "SKG" turn green and grow out ogre ears, matching the film's logo. Credits saying "DreamWorks Pictures Presents" and "A PDI/DreamWorks Production" appear.) (A ray of light shines down on a leather-bound storybook Shrek was put into competition at the May 2001 Cannes Film Festival, the first animated film to be placed into official competition for the Palme d'Or since Walt Disney's Peter Pan in 1953. After its North American release in May 2001, Shrek had the largest non-holiday opening for an animated film and was the largest DreamWorks opening to date TFY4H2.