Shrek! (1992 film)

Shrek! is a 1992 2D-animated comedy adventure fantasy musical film directed by Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth, produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Andrew Millstein and written by Phil Nibbelink based on a screenplay by Terry Ward, David Lipman & Robert Hunt. It is the first installment of the Shrek! film series and reprises the voices of Michael Bailey Smith, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Martin, Bill Bixby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothy Dalton, Estelle Harris, Marlon Brando and Eric Allan Kramer as Lord Farquaad, the antagonist of the film.

After, his two ogre parents send his son, Shrek out of their treehouse and grows up. Some years later, an grumpy, embittered and loveable fat ogre named Shrek (Bailey Smith) scares the angry mobs and would saw his best friend, Donkey (Martin) but where his sidekicks finds his princess Fiona (Garofalo) escapes the fire-breathing female Dragon's keep. An international co-production between the United States, the film is produced by DreamWorks Entertainment, Amblimation and Spielberg's iconic movie production company, Amblin Entertainment, with A. Animation Production and Pacific Data Images providing animation services.

Shrek! premiered in Los Angeles in May 15, 1992 and was released om May 19, 1992 in the United Stares by Paramount Pictures, and on June 12, 1992 internationally by Universal Pictures. It received near critical acclaim, praising its animation, voice cast (particularly Bailey Smith, Garofalo and Martin), plot, humor, songs, visuals, character development, and emotional weight. It was a box-office success, grossing $ $598 million worldwide on an $89 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1992, overtaking Bebe's Kids. Three sequels have been released ''Shrek! 2: The Kingdom Of Far Far Away (1995), Shrek the Third (1999), Shrek Forever After (2006) along two spin-off film Puss in Boots (1997) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'' (2004).

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Cast

 * Michael Bailey Smith as Shrek, an loveable fat ogre and the main protagonist
 * Steve Martin as Donkey, an wisecracking talking donkey and Shrek's best sidekick.
 * Janeane Garofalo as Princess Fiona, an princess and the daughter of King Harold and Queen Lillian.
 * Eric Allan Kramer as Lord Farquaad, an main villain from the first film, the leader of Duloc and an angry dwarf, Grumpy's son.
 * Bill Bixby as Peter "Monsieur" Hood, an main protagonist and the leader of the Merry Men.
 * Kari Wahlgren as Gingy, an gingerbread man and the Muffin Man's cookie-like son.
 * Timothy Dalton as Geppetto, the wooden toy maker and Pinocchio's grandfather.
 * Leonardo DiCaprio as the Magic Mirror, an mirror who can speak.
 * Wayne Allwine, Phil Hartman and Robin Williams as The Three Little Pigs, the three animal workers.
 * Chris Sabat as Thelonius.
 * John Davey, Burt Ward and Jack Colvin as the Three Blind Mices.
 * Edward Asner as the Big Bad Wolf, an brown-furred wolf who dressed the grandmother's clothes.
 * Charles Marvin Green Jr. and Peter Cullen as the Captain of the Guards
 * Frank Welker as the vocal effects of the Dragon, Donkey's wife.
 * Tim Curry as the Mad Hatter, an hammy yet bitter resident of Underland who becomes Alice's closest friend.
 * Patty Wirtz as the old lady, Donkey's ex-owner.
 * Robert Stainton as the Duloc Mascot, an man who dressed in an suit who looks like the leader of Duloc.
 * Susan Tolsky as the Mama Bear, an bear-like mother.
 * Rob Paulsen as the Papa Bear, an bear-like father.
 * Pamela Adlon as the Baby Bear, an bear-like son of the two bear parents.
 * Christopher Reeve as Peter Pan, an cocky and adventurous inhabitant of Neverland.
 * Robbie Coltrane as the narrator.
 * Marlon Brando as Shrek's father.
 * Estelle Harris as Shrek's mother.

Development
Development of the film commenced in June 1987. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen attached its filmand animation divisions, DreamWorks Entertainment, to the project two months prior. It was around time that Robert Hunt, Terry Ward and David Lipman, three friends, were signed the project about the ogre and the donkey as well.

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Animation
The film's animation was handled at Paramount and Universal's animation division, with A. Animation Production providing 2D-animation services.

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