GREAT: Shrek (2001)
Everything from sterile fantasy theme parks to cute bluebird-princess singalongs gets gleefully skewered in Dreamworks' blockbuster, which functions on one level as a straight parody of the films producer Jeffrey Katzenberg once presided over at Disney. But on another level, Shrek is a sweet, endearing riff on ''Beauty and the Beast'' that teaches a valuable lesson about appearance vs. reality. If only endless, ever-cruder sequels hadn't ultimately diluted that message.
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