{"id":49832,"date":"2015-03-13T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-shrek-2001.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:33:22","slug":"movie-review-shrek-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-shrek-2001.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Shrek&quot; (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, I find I enjoy this movie more as time goes on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/shrek\/1'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4ELAo2w7ej0yxOpqIlldgAITTBbq7bp2ADKPqjKZ7zYP2io4HxEL2WtQLXFC2Mbey6Or8SCaEFGIEQpO21EGhbqh9c_N_NgdBuGpahOt3a1gXGnI8MxCGCa9pK8xNPl7wZTGJElKgxBENhYCM58hMiOgGXVLJadXh9s8GHS2QLE=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/shrek\/1'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Shrek (2001)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThough the animation is getting a little long in the tooth, I keep finding myself enjoying this film more and more on rewatch. Even the annoying Eddie Murphy parts. The satirical humor&#8217;s still pretty good, and the foundational story of being able to love yourself as a path to being able to fully express love for others still works (and, yeah, I get kind of teary-eyed during the big transformation scene at the end, so shut up). Plus, y&#8217;know, some &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/TMyWXDy3neN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, I find I enjoy this movie more as time goes on. A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of Shrek (2001) Though the animation is getting a little long in the tooth, I keep finding myself enjoying this film more and more on rewatch. Even the annoying Eddie Murphy parts. The satirical humor&#8217;s still pretty good, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/movie-review-shrek-2001.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Shrek&quot; (2001)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40021,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-puss-in-boots-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":49832,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Puss in Boots&quot; (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Dec-13 7:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quite as overpacked with topical humor as the Shrek series that spawned it, this feline swashbuckler is a fun, funny little romp -- nothing that will affect cinematic history, but worth 90 minutes of your life.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Puss in Boots (2011) Having just watched \"The Mask\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001.html","url_meta":{"origin":49832,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Fellowship of the Ring&quot; (2001)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Dec-14 1:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've enjoyed Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations all down the line -- but one can make a solid case that they have dropped in quality over the years, largely as Jackson's own content or story changes have taken up more of the story. I still like them, but I'd say this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":49832,"position":2},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. 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