
Along the way, Shrek begins to fall in love with Fiona. Once Shrek and Donkey rescue Fiona, they take her back to Lord Farquaad. The Dragon turns out to be female, and after a minute or two falls in love with Donkey.ĭonkey, Shrek, and Fiona escape, and Dragon chases them. When Shrek and Donkey visit him, they are forced to rescue her from an enormous fire-breathing Dragon in exchange for Shrek's swamp being vacated. The lord needs Princess Fiona to marry him so he will become the king of Duloc. He befriends a talking donkey named Donkey, and they set off to meet with Farquaad.

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In May 2010, The New York Times described the principal Shrek characters as "brilliantly realized" and said "nearly a decade after the first Shrek film they remain as vital and engaging fusions of image, personality and voice as any characters in the history of animation." The series was a financial success, becoming the 17th highest-grossing film franchise of all time and the second highest-grossing animated franchise. The series primarily focuses on Shrek, a bad-tempered but good-hearted ogre, who begrudgingly accepts a quest to rescue a princess, resulting in him finding friends and going on many subsequent adventures in a fairy tale world. A spin-off film titled Puss in Boots was released in October 2011, and a 2008 stage musical adaptation played on Broadway for more than a year. Two television specials, the Christmas television special Shrek the Halls (2007) and the Halloween television special Scared Shrekless (2010), have also been produced. A short 4-D film, Shrek 4-D, which originally was a theme park ride, was released in 2003. It includes four computer-animated films: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010), with a fifth film in development. Shrek is a media franchise by DreamWorks Animation, loosely based on William Steig's 1990 picture book of the same name. * Shrek 4-D is also known as Shrek 3-D on the DVD release, and The Ghost of Lord Farquaad on the Netflix release.
