Quotes

Shrek: Ogres are like... onions.

Donkey: They stink?

Shrek: No.

Donkey: They make you cry?

Shrek: Nooo!

Donkey: Oh, you put them out in the sun, they turn brown, start sprouting little hairs.

Shrek: Noooooooo!

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Mike Myers actually does the voice for two characters: Shrek and one of the Three Blind Mice. See more...

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Shrek (2001) - 33 mistakes

Directed by Andrew Adamson, starring Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow, Mike Myers (add more)

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

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Continuity: In the scene immediately following Fiona's thrashing of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Shrek is holding Donkey and they are staring at Fiona in disbelief. When Shrek drops Donkey and turns to follow Fiona, you can see his entire backside and it's unpierced. In the next scene, Fiona discovers an arrow in his rump that wasn't there before.

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Factual error: Lord Farquaad wants to marry a princess to become a real king. The mirror shows him three princesses to choose from: Cinderella, Snow White and Fiona. But Cinderella wasn't born a princess! In fact, her only chance to become a princess was to marry a prince.

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Continuity: Sometimes Shrek's front door opens outwards, at other times inwards, yet it can't be "two-way" because whenever it closes, it slams against the frame.

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Continuity: The chain around the dragon's neck disappears after Shreck uses it to climb on to her.

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Continuity: At the start of the film, Shrek is painting his "Ogre Beware" sign, you will notice that quite a bit of the top left corner of the board is missing. When he hangs the board on the post it is the opposite corner that is gone. He did not paint on both sides.

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Continuity: The dragon flies down without a chain, then there is a chain dangling for Shrek to climb about to go to the castle, and while the dragon is flying, the chain is gone again.

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Continuity: In the scene where Donkey and Shrek are crossing the bridge to rescue the princess, Donkey trips and breaks a board. In subsequent shots sometimes you can see a little bit still stuck in the ropes, and sometimes it disappears.

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Continuity: At the end of the film, the three blind mice are turned into the horses for the onion carriage but a second later they are dancing on the piano.

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Deliberate "mistake": When a glass of milk is poured, if you look closely, the glass is filled but the level of milk in the bottle doesn't seem to lower.

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Continuity: In the scene where Shrek and Donkey are on the wooden bridge, when Shrek starts rocking the bridge, we see that the castle is still quite a way off. However, Donkey only takes a few steps to get to the end.

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Continuity: When Lord Farquaad announces Shrek as champion, there are flagposts surrounding them. In the close-up of Shrek and Donkey, these flagpoles have disappeared, as have the shields on the walls that the flagpoles stand on.

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Revealing: In the scene where Shrek and Donkey are sitting by the fire and looking at the stars, when Donkey asks Shrek about "our swamp" and Shrek is telling him "there's no we, there's no our". When Shrek blinks, you can see his eyeball slicing through his upper lid.

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Continuity: In the scene where Farquaad's men are chasing after Donkey and run into Shrek, their leader is holding a scroll. In the next shot, it completely disappears without him moving it at all.

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Revealing: When Donkey first meets Shrek, when Shrek confronts the knights, not all the shadows fall the same way. Shrek's shadow is cast forward onto the leader knight, whereas the knights' shadows are off to their left.

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Continuity: When Shrek backs into the two barrels at the tournament, they both have taps on them. He then bashes one of these off with the beer mug. But when Donkey rolls the other barrel the tap has vanished on that one as well.

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Continuity: During the scene where Fiona pulls the arrow out of Shrek, Donkey faints. When he hits the ground about 6 leaves float up from the ground as if Donkey had fallen into a pile of leaves. When we next see Donkey laying on the ground and when Shrek picks him up, there are no leaves on the ground, they disappeared.

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Factual error: As Shrek is sitting near the sunflowers field and staring at the Duloc (and day becomes night), we don't see the cathedral anywhere. It should be visible as such a big building, due to how big it is seen later, it should be very distinct over the houses' roofs.

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Continuity: On the bridge over the lava, when Donkey steps on one of the boards, it breaks down the middle into two pieces. But when we see it falling, it's the entire board as if it had come off without breaking.

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Plot hole: Shrek tells Fiona how short Lord Farquaad is, even though in the film he only saw him when he was high up on the balcony. Although his height may seem like something well known throughout the land, Shrek never even knew about Farquaad before going to his castle. He even refers to him as "this Farquaad guy.".

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Continuity: When Shrek is announced champion, there are awnings above the audience which cause parts of the audience to be dark, but when we see a close-up of Donkey and Shrek there is no darkness, meaning that the awnings have disappeared.

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