The Mind-Numbingly Derivative SHREK Gets an Honest Trailer

Shrek was released my junior year of high school and was inexplicably popular with the teenage set. I, however, fucking hated it, and this fact caused actual arguments with my peers. Seriously. They found it offensive that I disliked it, even when I laid out my very astute critique. It only made me hate the movie more.

So I was super gratified when this turned up in my inbox. Sure it has taken the wider culture 16 years to catch up to me (good hell, I’m old), but finally, Screen Junkies has made an Honest Trailer for the film that lays out a lot of my reasons for hating the film when it was released, give or take a few. Watch the Honest Trailer to learn most of the reasons why Shrek is terrible, and then spend the rest of the day cursing me (and the Screen Junkies crew) for getting Smashmouth’s All-Star stuck in your head, just like it’s the early aughts.