It birthed Broadway musicals, TV specials, Shrek festivals, and countless memes - many of them sexually explicit. In the decades since, Shrek has infused popular culture in a way that is unparalleled by almost any other animated film since The Lion King. Twenty years ago, that personality was largely absent from the Disney films that monopolized the genre until the turn of the century. It raised the bar for irreverent, tongue-in-cheek animated comedies. Shrek was also a pioneer in numerous fields, popularizing the use of contemporary songs and A-Listers (Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz).
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