It's good-natured with just enough wiseass crackle about it (and not in the glossified, milk-safe Disney way). "Shrek," based on a well-loved children's book by William Steig, has plenty going for it: The story of a fat, cranky, green ogre with no social skills, it has a rough-and-tumble jauntiness that's often hard to resist. I could understand it if computer animation had been specifically designed to desensitize the human race to thought and feeling instead, it's supposed to give us pleasure.
But they won't explain why movies like "Shrek" leave me feeling flatter than an old-fashioned animation cel. Those arguments will probably be technically sound. Am I alone in thinking that computer animation is the work of the antichrist? I'm ready for the deluge of letters from earnest fans trying to convince me that it's a thrilling new medium that's changing by the day, one that's cooler, more versatile and more realistic than conventional 2-D animation.
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