Shrek 2 Movie Review Bashes President Bush

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 | Christopher Kelly

[Pikamax]

I think its more the parents thought the prince of their dreams would break the curse and make their daughter not an ogre anymore, instead Shrek comes along and ruins their plans. I would say its more Look whose coming to dinner than anything else.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I thought I said the "Movie Review" bashes Bush. I didn't the movie bashes Bush.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

I didn't say the movie bashes Bush.

[Howlin]

We have grandchildren here under 4......we watch the first one every single weekend; if there was an underlining "agenda" with Murphy's movie, I would have picked it up by now!

That being said, we are POSITIVE that the kids do NOT get the jokes in that movie or Nemo; they go right over their heads, thus making it bearable for adults to hear/watch them till the end of time!

[Skywalk]

LOL *smacks head*

D'oh. I can't believe I completely ignored those two words.

Damn, that's one of my first big foul-ups as a FReeper.

I apologize.

[Howlin]

Sometimes, FReepers jump way off the deep end. Not everything is about Bush, our politics, etc.

Say it ain't so! :-)

[Spok]

My boys want to see the new Shrek-I think I'll buy three tickets to 'The Passion' and sneak in...

[Agnes Heep]

What's really needed is a nice story about a beautiful girl in love with a German Shepherd, and how they get married in the end, and live happily ever after, despite the evil machinations of President Bush and the Moral Majority.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

No problem.

[FormerLib]

"Not that there's anything wrong with that." is the biggest, longest running joke on Seinfeld.

Equally beyond the author is the fact that pairing the statement "Not that there's anything wrong with that" whenever homosexuality was mentioned was Seinfeld's way of stating that he sure as heck believed that there was something "wrong with that."

[SF Republican]

Another movie I won't see. a joy of parenting is to see these movies, with a 4 and 2.5 year old we get to see Lion King, Shriek, etc (often more than once) and all in all they are great movies; the first Shriek was very good and I would recommend it to any and all. Shriek II I am sure we will be seeing soon.

[FormerLib]

Yeah, good family movies always have stuff written specifically for the adults, sort of makes it bearable for us.

I've noticed that even "Veggie Tales" does this, which if very fortunate for me since my kids have watched each one about a hundred times.

[highlander_UW]

Adding overt gay propaganda to the scatological bent of the original? Sounds like another "must miss" film.

It looked more like the overt gay propaganda came from the reviewer and not the movie. The ogres are male and female, after all, and the "not that there is anything wrong with that" is more likely a toss out regarding a Seinfeld episode.

[Sans-Culotte]

I always thought that Seinfeld tagline "not that there's anything wrong with it" was more a spoof of PC CYA crap than an actual endorsement of any lifestyle.

[Howlin]

Oh, we LOVE "Veggie Tales!" I cannot get that song "Oh, where is my hairbrush" out of my mind!

[Grig]

It's the reviewer pushing his own agenda, and projecting it onto the movie. Shrek and Fiona are clearly male and female and married. A conservative reviewer could just as easily see it as an alegory of the attack on traditional marriage by society's elites.

[MississippiMan]

I was on a screenwriters message board a few weeks ago, where a number of successful screenwriters hang out, when somebody started bellyaching about the FCC trying to clean up the airwaves a bit. Oh, the horror of it all. Censorship. They made it sound like every writer in the country was stifled and strangled. It was a ridiculous show as to how out of touch Hollywood is, and the thread itself was of course FILLED with incredibly vulgar language as some kind of nose-thumbing exercise, I suppose.

I weighed in and called the thread what it was: ludicrous. I also pointed out that it was a shame that a writer couldn't participate on a board of alleged professionals without worrying about his kid coming up behind him and wondering what kind of place Dad was frequenting. The last time I visited that board, the thread was near 100 comments, and there was not ONE post in support of my position. Not ONE.

I knew Hollywood was liberal, but I was honestly surprised to find myself COMPLETELY alone in taking a moral stance.

MM

[k2blader]

Mel Gibson "bashed" President Bush. But that'd be a stupid reason to not see "The Passion".

[shattered]

LOL at Seinfeld! That is exactly the reference the movie was going for.

The author is a dimwit.

[wayoverontheright]

I took my six year old yesterday to see it. I didn't see it the same way the author of this article did, after all, the central relationship was a heterosexual one. The little one's favorite part from Shrek I had to do with the farting under water, which was replicated in the sequel. I don't know, I feel the movie could be done just as well without that. My spousal unit says to get a life.

All that said, the bartender at the local pub was a crossdressing male with a deep masculine voice, something for which I see no place in the movie except to foster acceptance of the bizarre in kids, and once again, I think the movie could have been done just as well without this as part of its agenda.

Hollywood simply will not miss an opportunity to push PC will they?