1. Not Just Another Fairy Tale
The very beginning of the movie makes fun of the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty, a movie that starts off with a fairy tale book about a princess trapped in a castle which is guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. ... It should, but the difference between Sleeping Beauty and Shrek is that while Sleeping Beauty goes into the story after this introduction, Shrek (Mike Myers) tears out a page of this book and uses it to wipe himself. ... While you can sense a similar story line, there are many major differences between Shrek and your average fairy tale or Disney movie. ... Shrek uses the pages o...
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