By Kolin Kriner
Shrek doesn’t look like Shrek — and that’s a problem.
Dreamworks released the teaser trailer for “Shrek 5” this month, and to the surprise of many, they made Shrek look like a watered down version of himself.
I’m not entirely sure of their thought process for deciding to ruin the animation that they had for four movies prior, an animation style that worked, but for whatever reason they decided for this fifth movie to choose self-mutilation.
They also seem to have forgotten a few things from the other films.
Shrek has three kids, in theory, but the filmmakers seemed to forget that. Zendaya is joining the cast as his daughter — but where are his sons?
Not only that, they gave her brown eyes despite the daughter in the previous films having blue eyes. They seem to have an impostor in the canon, or they are just doing away with all previous canon as a whole.
Remember when “Sonic” was getting a live action movie and we all collectively bullied Paramount into delaying the film and completely redesigning Sonic the Hedgehog? I think wholeheartedly it could benefit Shrek as well.
On a positive note, a swear word was used in the trailer, and I think that’s pretty cool. Shrek has always been on the line of PG-13 and I hope they lean into that a little more.
Whether they change the animation or not, I’m still going to see it. There is no way it will ever come close to the masterpiece that was “Shrek 2,” but I hope they do right by Shrek despite the animation feeling all wrong.
