Shrek

The films that changed films forever.

Don’t write something mean about ‘Shrek’ apparently.

Let your freak flag fly this Valentine's Day.

These baddies prove that villains are not born, but made.

These monsters won't make you scream, but they'll make you laugh.

How many of these jokes went right over your head?

Everyone loves animation’s number one ogre. So why do we need to reboot the franchise?

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me. Finally, I understand what that means.

In the years since Shrek Forever After, our most recent check-in with the friendly Mike Myers-voiced ogre, DreamWorks’ animated franchise has matured from a massively successful creative property into something vaster and stranger. Gradually but undeniably, the Shrek films have turned into a Whole Big Weird Internet Thing, with various denizens of the World Wide Web creating disturbing fan-art and cracking absurdist jokes about the smart-alecky series of animated films. In certain online circles, even uttering the words “Some-BODY once told me” is enough to prompt a barrage of surreal humor and warped image macros. And now that Shrek lives on as a sense-stymieing parody of its former self, what better time to revive the franchise?

Themed entertainment is a like a shark or a relationship – it has to keep moving forward or it has to die. Today, September 8, 2015, marks the day that Universal officially leaves its past behind. Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride Starring You, is closing to make way for a Fast and Furious themed ride. It’s closure marks the definitive end of the park’s original intentions, for better and for worse.