Directed by: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Mike Myers
Genres: Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
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Other mistake: Princess Fiona is cooking the eggs on the rock that is over the fire. She uses a big green leaf as an oven mitt to protect her from the heat, but then places her other hand on the rock, without a leaf, and somehow doesn't get burned.
Continuity mistake: 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. (00:10:55 - 00:13:45)
Question: In a movie with talking ogres, pigs, mice, wolves, and all sorts of animals, why is everyone so surprised to find a talking donkey?
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Chosen answer: Who is "everyone"? The only person surprised he can talk is the one human who is processing the fairytale creatures for banishment, and this was used as a plot device to highlight a joke (between him flying and talking).
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Fiona also says "it talks", after he "saves his ass."
To be fair, she was locked in a castle for the majority of her life, so she wouldn't know that donkeys would be able to talk.
And yet he wasn't the only one surprised by it; watch the scene again and Fiona was surprised, too.