The plot begins with an eviction. Lord Farquaad clears every fairy tale creature out of Duloc and dumps them in a swamp belonging to an ogre who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, and the whole story follows from that one act of municipal cruelty. DreamWorks released Shrek on May 18, 2001, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson and adapted loosely from William Steig’s 1990 picture book, and it won the first Academy Award ever given for Best Animated Feature. Mike Myers voiced the ogre, reportedly re-recording his lines in a Scottish accent after the animation was already underway. Eddie Murphy improvised much of Donkey.
What has kept the film in circulation is that its characters are all built on a gap between how they look and how they behave. That gap is the entire subject of the movie and it is what makes this quiz meaningful rather than decorative. Shrek is a genuinely unfriendly person who is nonetheless correct about almost everything, defensive because hostility from strangers arrived first and he learned to get there before they did. Donkey is the opposite failure mode: relentlessly talkative, terrible at reading a room, and the only reason Shrek ever changes, because he refuses to be shaken off. Princess Fiona spends her days performing the role she was raised for and her nights as something she has been taught to consider shameful, and her arc is about deciding which one she keeps.
Lord Farquaad is small, immaculate, and running a town where everything is regulated and nothing is alive. He is the result for the person who cares deeply about how things look and controls their environment down to the shrubbery. Puss In Boots, introduced in the 2004 sequel with Antonio Banderas, is a professional assassin who wins fights by making his eyes very large, which is a strategy more people use than admit. Dragon turns out to be lonely rather than monstrous, which is the same joke the film makes about its title character.
The fairy tale refugees fill out the rest. Gingerbread Man is defiance in a very fragile body. Pinocchio cannot lie and is uncomfortable about it. Robin Hood arrives with a musical number and an unearned confidence that collapses in seconds. The Three Little Pigs are the group that sticks together and panics together. Snow White is used to being the center of attention and slightly annoyed when she is not. Geppetto is the maker with complicated feelings about what he made, Peter Pan refuses to grow up on principle, Prince Charming believes the story owes him a crown, and Arthur Pendragon is an unpopular teenager who gets handed a kingdom he never asked for.
The questions cover how you treat strangers, whether you say the blunt thing, how you handle being judged on appearance, and what you do when someone will not leave you alone. Answer as yourself, layers included.
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