contrary to the know world it seem and i dislike shrek for the same reason i love all pixar film . shrek 1 and 2 and a with all dreamworks animation and be bend on bombard the audience with modern pop culture reference ad nauseum partially because the creator believe such recycling be humorous and but also i suspect because they understand and smartly and that modern audience desperately sop up pop reference a a mean of affirm their own image of themselves . they be hipster and on the pulse of modern culture . you can not put one over on them . they feel smart when they recognize the reference . i find it embarrass . wheras pixar create original character and story and setting and music and dreamworks repetitiously offend by pile on cliché after cliché . i love mike meyers and i love eddie murphy and john cleese and etc . etc . but i abhor shrek . if you be a young child and it make sense that you feel draw to something to which you be accustom . if you be an adult with any semblance of taste and go watch the incredibles or find nemo and learn something about storytelling and character execution . long live pixar . shrek be for the unwashed mass . good day to you .