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shrek

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It's like the way Shrek takes common tropes from Cinderella-type movies and turns them on their head, only serious instead of comedic.

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Quick take

(slang, derogatory) An extremely ugly person.

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noun

(slang, derogatory) An extremely ugly person.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shrek.

noun

(slang, derogatory) An extremely ugly person.

Example sentences

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It's like the way Shrek takes common tropes from Cinderella-type movies and turns them on their head, only serious instead of comedic.

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Top 10 movies from that year, and pulling future media sales predictions out of my ass: Shrek 2 kids movie, profitable regardless.

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I'm pretty sure Dreamworks was using something similar for hair simulation around the time of the original Shrek films.

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The Latin American Spanish localization of Dreamworks's Shrek is a great example.

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Reading the Torah without an Egyptian background is like watching West Side Story without knowing Romeo and Juliet, or watching Shrek without knowing Prince Charming.

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As a joke, he put his MS paint pictures of Shrek on Facebook, and said he had gotten a job as a concept artist on Facebook.

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I didn't like Shrek so I was kind of turned off to them.

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By the way, a recent HN thread on internationalization mentioned how few really well localized film translations there are and gave Shrek and Frozen as examples of good ones.

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All of this information comes from the teacher of a Spanish class I took (we watched the Latin American version of Shrek in the class).

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Nitpick: Shrek is a Dreamworks Animation movie.

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Heck I still remember trying to download Shrek of Kazaa or eDonkey and getting a ton of pedo pictures instead, and that was very common in the early 2000's...

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Their marketing teams absolutely blitz the public and this is probably why Shrek 2 is still the highest grossing animated film of all time, even though several films from both studios are better.

Quote examples

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Searches for "Shrek controversy" don't seem to mention anything nearly like this - do you have any references to the phenomenon you mention?

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For example, in replying DreamWorks who were annoyed about distribution of Shrek 2 they wrote: "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are.......

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"Dongle" jokes are on Family Guy, the Daily Show, HBO, CBS, NBC, and even PG movies (I remember a penis joke in "Shrek").

Proper noun examples

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Frozen, and other Pixar/Disney/Dreamworks children movies (like Shrek) tend to be of awesome quality in all languages.

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Screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates Of The Caribbean series) has a long running website on screenwriting.

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I'm curious as to what you see in Shrek-without-satire that is harmful to children.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use shrek in a sentence?

It's like the way Shrek takes common tropes from Cinderella-type movies and turns them on their head, only serious instead of comedic.

What does shrek mean?

(slang, derogatory) An extremely ugly person.

What part of speech is shrek?

shrek is commonly used as noun.