Double Take: 'Shrek' at 20 and the Iconic Legacy of DreamWorks' "All Star"
It's the 20th Shrekiversary. Time to peel back the layers.
Double Take is a series in which Anna Swanson and Meg Shields sit down and yell at each other about the controversial, uncomfortable, and contentious corners of cinema. In this edition, they consider the cultural impact and enduring notoriety of Shrek.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, a Scottish ogre was unleashed upon the world and changed the face of animation as we know it. In 2001, DreamWorks released the fruit of their animosity-tinged labor and created a millennial childhood classic. But how well does