Shrek: (a big part) Male Lead – about 100 lines and several songs. (Audition songs TBA.) He may be a big, scary, green ogre to the rest of the world, but as they story reveals, he's really just a big fellow with a big heart.
Shrek : [narrating] Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort, which could only be broken by love's first kiss.
DRAGON Female, sings solo, no lines, movement/dance feature After years of guarding Fiona in her tower, Dragon gets the heart flutters for Donkey as he and Shrek rescue the princess.
Even though his background is something of a mystery, according to Shrek the Musical, it is revealed that on his seventh birthday, Shrek was sent away by his parents, because it was an ogre tradition. (The original book also has his parents evicting him from their swamp.)
With this quote, Donkey demonstrates just that. Although Donkey insults Shrek's swamp at first, he quickly changes his tune when he realizes it's Shrek's home and tries to placate him by commenting on a lone boulder. This is one of the most quoted lines from the first film.
Conversation. In the Shrek cinematic universe (2001-present), “Donkey” is actually a nickname given to the character by Shrek (character; for film, see “Shrek (2001)”). While it is never revealed in the films, the character's full name is Donald Keyton.
Dragon is a major character in the DreamWorks Shrek franchise. She is Donkey's wife, initially started out as an antagonist charged with guarding Princess Fiona in her castle, but later befriends Shrek. Dragon is a giant magenta-red female dragon who is 100-feet long (or 30 meters) from snout to leg.
Shrek's height isn't officially specified in the movies or books, but shrek character has been depicted as being quite large and towering over most other characters. In the DreamWorks animated films, he appears to be several times taller than the average human, often depicted as being around 7 feet tall or more.
Donkey : 'Cause I'm all alone / There's no one here beside me / My problems have all gone / There's no one to deride me! / But ya gotta have friends... Shrek : STOP SINGING! Well, it's no wonder you don't have any friends!
Shrek the Third (also known as Shrek 3) is a 2007 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig.
crude or profane language: For some families this will be the troll lurking underneath the bridge. There are about 10 instances of crude slang or mild profanity.
Add that on poor Fiona's age when she was first locked up and we find out that she's somewhere around 30. So assuming she and Shrek are the same age, since that's how the musical positions things, it's safe to say that he's about 30 as well.
Shrek is 90 minutes long, Shrek 2 is 93 minutes, Shrek the Third is 93 minutes, Shrek Forever After is 95 minutes, Puss in Boots is 90 minutes, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is 102 minutes.
SHREK. Princess Fiona says to Shrek, "And where would a brave knight be without his noble steed?" Donkey misunderstands and comments, "I hope you heard that. She called me a noble steed.
The name "Shrek" is a romanization of the Yiddish word שרעק (shrek), or שרעקלעך (shreklekh), related to the German Schreck and meaning "fear" or "fright".
That is true, but even she didn't have a last name before marrying him. She was known as Princess Fiona. As far as we're all concerned, their names are Fiona and Shrek Ogre because they're ogres. Other than that, neither of them ever had a last name mentioned in the movies.
Shrek does a great job of establishing the characters and the offbeat world and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish makes that world larger and more diverse — but Shrek 2 is inarguably one of the funniest animated movies of all time.
Fiona, upon becoming pregnant by Craig Garland in Episode 208, told Veronica that she was the only girl in her school year who didn't become pregnant before receiving her GCSE's.
