Shrek
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.| Publisher: | Dreamworks Animation | 
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 
| Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | 
| Production Companies: | Pacific Data Images (PDI), DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks | 
| Publication Date: | May 16, 2001 | 
| Budget: | $60,000,000 | 
| Runtime: | 90 | 
| Tagline: | The greatest fairy tale never told. | 
| User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (6771) | 
Full production credits:
					Communicator
					William Steig
				
							
					Communicator
					Ted Elliott
				
							
					Character
					Shrek
				
							
					Communicator
					Mike Myers
				
							
					Communicator
					Terry Rossio
				
							
					Communicator
					Joe Stillman
				
							
					Communicator
					Roger S.H. Schulman
				
							
					Character
					Donkey (voice)
				
							
					Communicator
					Eddie Murphy
				
							
					Character
					Mike Myers
				
							
					Character
					Eddie Murphy
				
							
					Character
					Cameron Diaz
				
							
					Character
					John Lithgow
				
							
					Character
					Vincent Cassel
				
							
					Character
					Peter Dennis
				
							
					Character
					Clive Pearse
				
							
					Character
					Jim Cummings
				
							
					Character
					Bobby Block
				
							
					Character
					Chris Miller
				
							
					Character
					Cody Cameron
				
							
					Character
					Kathleen Freeman
				
							
					Character
					Conrad Vernon
				
							
					Character
					Christopher Knights
				
							
					Character
					Simon J. Smith
				
							
					Character
					Jacquie Barnbrook
				
							
					Character
					Guillaume Aretos
				
							
					Character
					John Bisom
				
							
					Character
					Calvin Remsberg
				
							
					Character
					Jean-Paul Vignon
				
							
					Character
					Val Bettin
				
							
					Character
					Andrew Adamson
				
							
					Character
					Patty Cornell
				
							
					Character
					Charles Dennis
				
							
					Character
					Mehmet Ali Erbil
				
							
					Character
					Susan Fitzer
				
							
					Character
					Elisa Gabrielli
				
							
					Character
					Gary A. Hecker
				
							
					Character
					Frank Welker
				
							
					Character
					Matthew Gonder
				
							
					Director
					Andrew Adamson
				
							
					Director
					Vicky Jenson
				
							
					Novel
					William Steig
				
							
					Producer
					Jeffrey Katzenberg
				
							
					Producer
					Aron Warner
				
							
					Executive producer
					Penney Finkelman Cox
				
							
					Executive producer
					Sandra Rabins
				
							
					Original music composer
					Harry Gregson-Williams
				
							
					Original music composer
					John Powell
				
							
					Editor
					Sim Evan-Jones
				
							
					Casting
					Leslee Feldman
				
							
					Production design
					James Hegedus
				
							
					Art direction
					Guillaume Aretos
				
							
					Art direction
					Douglas Rogers
				
							
					Costume design
					Isis Mussenden
				
							
					Producer
					John H. Williams
				
							
					Co-producer
					Ted Elliott
				
							
					Co-producer
					Terry Rossio
				
							
					Production accountant
					Luc Desmarchelier
				
							
					Other
					Bill Perkins
				
							
					Other
					Barry E. Jackson
				
							
					Associate producer
					Jane Hartwell
				
							
					Co-executive producer
					David Lipman
				
							
					Executive producer
					Steven Spielberg
				
							
					Additional dialogue
					Cody Cameron
				
							
					Additional dialogue
					Chris Miller
				
							
					Additional dialogue
					Conrad Vernon
				
							
					Thanks
					Hans Zimmer
				
							
					Thanks
					Jennifer Rubin
				
							
					Thanks
					Brad Lewis
				
							
					Thanks
					Alan Myerson
				
							
					Thanks
					Michael Kahn
				
							
					Casting associate
					Christi Soper
				
							
					Color timer
					Terry Claborn
				
							
					Visual effects supervisor
					Ken Bielenberg
				
							
					Visual effects
					Mark Edwards
				
							
					Visual effects
					Bob Whitehill
				
							
					Post-production manager
					James Beshears
				
							
					Production illustrator
					Mary Locatell
				
							
					Sculptor
					Tom Hester
				
							
					Set designer
					Craig Edelblut
				
							
					Additional music
					James McKee Smith
				
							
					Post production supervisor
					Matthew Goodman
				
							
					Production controller
					Gary L. Wohlleben
				
							
					Projection
					Rennie Cowan
				
							
					Second film editor
					Michael Andrews
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Philippe Gluckman
				
							
					Supervising animator
					Raman Hui
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Michael Cutler
				
							
					Editorial coordinator
					Nicole Serrano Sewell
				
							
					First assistant editor
					Michelle Belforte
				
							
					Lighting artist
					Matthieu Grospiron
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Audra Koklys
				
							
					Production manager
					Triva von Klark
				
							
					Production supervisor
					Kathleen Kelly
				
							
					First assistant sound editor
					Robert Batha
				
							
					Music editor
					Brian Richards
				
							
					Music supervisor
					Marylata Elton
				
							
					Orchestrator
					John Bell
				
							
					Sound effects editor
					Scott Martin Gershin
				
							
					Sound mixer
					Eric Valetine
				
							
					Supervising sound editor
					Lon Bender
				
							
					I/o supervisor
					Frank Richards
				
							
					Visual development
					Bill Kaufmann
				
							
					Storyboard
					Hank Mayo
				
							
					Modeling
					Patty Kaku
				
							
					Animation director
					Tim Cheung
				
							
					Supervising technical director
					Mitchell Amino
				
							
					Negative cutter
					Mo Henry
				
							
					Adr supervisor
					Chris Jargo
				
							
					Assistant sound editor
					David Stanke
				
							
					Conductor
					Gavin Greenaway
				
							
					Foley editor
					Valerie Davidson
				
							
					Musician
					Peter DiStefano
				
							
					Character designer
					Tom Hester
				
							
					Roto supervisor
					Clark Harding
				
							
					Stereoscopic coordinator
					Christian Quickle
				
							
					Animation
					Kenny Chung
				
							
					Animation
					Patricia A. Hannaway
				
							
					Set designer
					Don Weinger
				
							
					Additional sound re-recording mixer
					Alan Meyerson
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Ian Abercrombie
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Newell Alexander
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Rosemary Alexander
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Tom Amundsen
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Steve Bulen
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Mitch Carter
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Moosie Drier
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Jean Gilpin
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Bridget Hoffman
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Sherry Hursey
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Rif Hutton
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Donna Lynn Leavy
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Tony Pope
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Peter Renaday
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Lia Sargent
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Bridget Sienna
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Claudette Wells
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Diz White
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Lynnanne Zager
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Christina MacGregor
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Elisa Gabrielli
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Ike Eisenmann
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Kenneth Danziger
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Nicholas Guest
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Richard Steven Horvitz
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					Charleen Richards
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					David Lucarelli
				
							
					Adr supervisor
					Hugh Waddell
				
							
					Supervising dialogue editor
					Hugh Waddell
				
							
					Animation department coordinator
					Gabriel Herman Villarrubia
				
							
					Animation supervisor
					Jennifer Dahlman
				
							
					Software engineer
					Sumit Das
				
							
					Software engineer
					Gilles Dezeustre
				
							
					Software engineer
					Nick Foster
				
							
					Software engineer
					Barry Fowler
				
							
					Software engineer
					Lawrence Kesteloot
				
							
					Software engineer
					Matt Kimball
				
							
					Software engineer
					Shawn Neely
				
							
					Software engineer
					Drew Olbrich
				
							
					Software engineer
					Trina M. Roy
				
							
					Software engineer
					Kurt Schaefer
				
							
					Software engineer
					Karl Johann Schmidt
				
							
					Software engineer
					Eric Tabellion
				
							
					Software engineer
					Deepak Tolani
				
							
					Software engineer
					Daniel Wexler
				
							
					Software engineer
					Rahul Chandrakant Thakkar
				
							
					Animation
					Edip Agi
				
							
					Animation
					Chung Chan
				
							
					Animation
					Raffaella Filipponi
				
							
					Animation
					Anthony Hodgson
				
							
					Animation
					Ethan Hurd
				
							
					Animation
					Tim Keon
				
							
					Animation
					Ken Keys
				
							
					Animation
					Boris Kossmehl
				
							
					Animation
					Eric Lessard
				
							
					Animation
					Noel McGinn
				
							
					Animation
					Fredrik Nilsson
				
							
					Animation
					David Rader
				
							
					Animation
					Rick Richardson
				
							
					Animation
					Emmanuel Roth
				
							
					Animation
					Tom Roth
				
							
					Animation
					David Spivack
				
							
					Animation
					Don Venhaus
				
							
					Animation
					Jason Reisig
				
							
					Animation
					Michelle Meeker
				
							
					Art department assistant
					Anthony Byrnes
				
							
					Art department assistant
					Fadi Basem Kandah
				
							
					Art department coordinator
					Rachael Ellen Miller
				
							
					Production supervisor
					Stacey Vandermeer
				
							
					Production accountant
					Susan Beech
				
							
					Casting associate
					Sara Getzkin
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Charles G. Baldwin
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Andre de Oliviera Araujo
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Bart Coughlin
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Cassidy Curtis
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Peter Farson
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Milana Huang
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Nathan Loofbourrow
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Kevin Rodgers
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Eric Vignola
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Robert Vogt
				
							
					Creature technical director
					J.J. Blumenkranz
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Lucia Modesto
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Luca Prasso
				
							
					Supervising technical director
					Michael Garner
				
							
					Cloth setup
					Matt Baer
				
							
					Cloth setup
					Randall Hammond
				
							
					Cloth setup
					Kenneth Ibrahim
				
							
					Cloth setup
					Andrew R. Harris
				
							
					Animation director
					Paul Chung
				
							
					Animation director
					Denis Couchon
				
							
					Animation director
					Donnachada Daly
				
							
					Animation director
					James Straus
				
							
					Visual effects
					Terran Boylan
				
							
					Visual effects
					Juan J. Buhler
				
							
					Visual effects
					Rhett Collier
				
							
					Visual effects
					Alain De Hoe
				
							
					Visual effects
					David Hart
				
							
					Visual effects
					Matt Head
				
							
					Visual effects
					Mirjana Nikolic
				
							
					Visual effects
					Mahesh Ramasubramanian
				
							
					Visual effects
					Susan Thayer
				
							
					Visual effects
					Martin Usiak
				
							
					Visual effects
					David P. Allen
				
							
					Visual effects
					Greg Duda
				
							
					Visual effects
					Karen Schneider
				
							
					Opening/ending animation
					James C.J. Williams
				
							
					First assistant editor
					Christopher Knights
				
							
					First assistant sound editor
					Branden Spencer
				
							
					Foley
					Jeffrey Wilhoit
				
							
					Foley
					James Moriana
				
							
					Foley editor
					Jennifer L. Mann
				
							
					Foley
					Nerses Gezalyan
				
							
					Foley
					Greg Zimmerman
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Alvin Tenpo
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Mark Macready
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Heather Tensen
				
							
					Layout
					Steve R.J. Bell
				
							
					Layout
					John Braunreuther
				
							
					Layout
					Brian J. Danker
				
							
					Layout
					Todd Heapy
				
							
					Layout
					Gerald McAleece III
				
							
					Layout
					Richard Shiba
				
							
					Layout
					Melissa Tseng
				
							
					Layout
					Nick Walker
				
							
					Layout
					Dave Murphy
				
							
					Layout
					Steven Kirchner
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Beth Hofer
				
							
					Creature technical director
					Dick Walsh
				
							
					Painter
					Steven Albert
				
							
					Painter
					Joe DiCesare
				
							
					Painter
					Tony Halawa
				
							
					Painter
					Thomas Esmeralda
				
							
					Modeling
					Facundo Rabaudi
				
							
					Modeling
					Brian Deans-Rowe
				
							
					Modeling
					Steve McGrath
				
							
					Modeling
					Bill Stahl
				
							
					Modeling
					Ludmila Golynski
				
							
					Modeling
					Matthew Paulson
				
							
					Character modelling supervisor
					Jeff Hayes
				
							
					Musician
					Jason Wade
				
							
					Musician
					Nicholas Bucknall
				
							
					Musician
					Anthony Pike
				
							
					Musician
					Andrew Findon
				
							
					Musician
					Anna Noakes
				
							
					Musician
					Richard Bissill
				
							
					Musician
					James Thatcher
				
							
					Musician
					Danny Jacob
				
							
					Musician
					Paul Clarvis
				
							
					Musician
					Richard Edwards
				
							
					Musician
					Mike Hext
				
							
					Musician
					Dave Stewart
				
							
					Musician
					Paul Archibald
				
							
					Musician
					Ian Balmain
				
							
					Musician
					Andrew Crowley
				
							
					Musician
					Owen Slade
				
							
					Musician
					Rachel Bolt
				
							
					Musician
					Jonathan Evans-Jones
				
							
					Musician
					Boguslav Kostecki
				
							
					Musician
					Rita Manning
				
							
					Musician
					Warren Zielinski
				
							
					Orchestrator
					Elizabeth Finch
				
							
					Orchestrator
					Ladd McIntosh
				
							
					Orchestrator
					Yvonne S. Moriarty
				
							
					Orchestrator
					Bruce Fowler
				
							
					Orchestrator
					John A. Coleman
				
							
					Orchestrator
					Walt Fowler
				
							
					Production accountant
					Steve Deutsch
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Andrea Stoops
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Ilyssa Katz
				
							
					Production coordinator
					Russell Peavey
				
							
					Production illustrator
					Henrik Tamm
				
							
					Production illustrator
					James Wood Wilson
				
							
					Production illustrator
					Julia Woolf
				
							
					Mixing engineer
					Denis St. Amand
				
							
					Sound re-recording mixer
					Anna Behlmer
				
							
					Sound re-recording mixer
					Andy Nelson
				
							
					Sculptor
					Dennis Gordon
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Margaret Myers
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Brian Peterson
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Susan Hayden
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Apurva Shah
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Paul Wang
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Mark Wendell
				
							
					Sequence supervisor
					Janet Rentel
				
							
					Musician
					Heather Cairncross
				
							
					Musician
					Sarah Eyden
				
							
					Musician
					Rachel Weston
				
							
					Sound effects editor
					Tony Lamberti
				
							
					Sound effects editor
					Wade Wilson
				
							
					Sound effects editor
					Hector C. Gika
				
							
					Sound recordist
					Robert Renga
				
							
					Additional sound re-recordist
					Slamm Andrews
				
							
					Script supervisor
					Jenna Grigg Thomas
				
							
					Supervising sound editor
					Wylie Stateman
				
							
					Supervising technical director
					George Bruder
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Graham Breeze
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Bart Feliciano
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					David Fent
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Rich Marco
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					John O'Sullivan
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Erik Patton
				
							
					Systems administrators & support
					Rob Toy
				
							
					Writer
					Terry Rossio
				
							
					Writer
					Joe Stillman
				
							
					Writer
					Ted Elliott
				
							
					Writer
					Roger S.H. Schulman
				
							
					Visual effects
					Erdem Taylan
				
							
					Adr & dubbing
					David Cowgill
				
							
					Sound recordist
					Craig Heath
				
							
					Character
					Shrek (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Donkey (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Princess Fiona (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Lord Farquaad (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Monsieur Hood (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Ogre Hunter (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Captain of Guards (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Baby Bear (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Geppetto / Magic Mirror (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Pinocchio / Three Pigs (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Old Woman (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Gingerbread Man (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Blind Mouse / Thelonious (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Blind Mouse (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Wrestling Fan (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Merry Man (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Bishop (voice)
				
							
					Character
					Duloc Mascot (voice) (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Clockwork Chorus (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Villager (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Esek (voice) (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Dragon Vocals (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Dragon / Animals' Vocal Effects (voice) (uncredited)
				
							
					Character
					Lord Farquaad
				
							
					Communicator
					John Lithgow
				
					Last updated: 2018-12-06
Characters in ‘Shrek’
		
	
	
	“Princess Fiona: [as ogre] Donkey, shh, shh. It's me... in this body.
Donkey: [gasps] Oh, my God, you ate the princess!”
		
		
                                                        Donkey: [gasps] Oh, my God, you ate the princess!”
		Tagged:
					Cannibalism			
 
		
	
		
	
	
	“Donkey: Okay, let me get this straight: you gonna go fight a dragon and rescue a princess just so Farquaad'll give you back your swamp, which you only don't have 'cause he filled it full of freaks in the first place. Is that about right?
Shrek: You know what? Maybe there's a good reason donkeys shouldn't talk.”
		
		
                                                                                                                                                      Shrek: You know what? Maybe there's a good reason donkeys shouldn't talk.”
		Tagged:
					insults, 					Anthropomorphism			
 
		
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