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Teaser trailer raises some questions. But i think movie is gonna be shrektastic

I rewatched shrek 1 a couple years ago, and I still think it holds up very well. it's a true classic. I haven't seen any of the others in over a decade, though.

I saw some of the outrage over the facial redesigns from the new trailer - shrek does look off to me for sure; I've seen some good breakdowns about how it's almost entirely due to adjusting the eye placement (and to a lesser extent, the way the irises are rendered). I do think it was probably a mistake for them to change the face of such an iconic character in a subtle way, because it's unlikely to make the design more appealing to new viewers, but immediately looks "wrong" to anyone who's familiar with shrek already.

some are being very negative about the fact that the trailer references things like social media/shorts, and while I agree the trailer felt kind of try-hardy (really not helped by the voiceover), I think there's a solid argument that this kind of pop-culture reference was always part of the shrek formula (see picrel). I mean, come on - grumpy old shrek grumbling about and "not understanding" tiktok? it could be funny :^p

in general, I kind of hate trailers, so I don't think it's fair to judge the movie based on a single out-of-context joke, but it certainly has gotten the public reception for the movie off to a rocky start

>>1234
Wpek

he looked so wrong when i first saw him, but i didnt know why.

then some nerds posted facial analysis diagrams explaining what exactly changed, and some photoshops have made him look basically normal again.

ever since that sonic trailer, people have made comments about how theyre going to get the studio to FIX it, the same way they did with sonic.

and for shrek it looks like even less effort to correct the weirdness. so if they do end up fixing it... im going to assume this is just the new way studios do marketing.
cause everyone will be praising them for listening to the audience and saying how good it looks now.

if not, its just ugly slop and who cares.

>>1234
>What do you think about upcoming Shrek 5 movie?
The trailer was fine. People make it sound like it's this AI generated abomination from the depths of hell but it's really not that bad. My only complaint is that the daughter looks like one of those memes where they make Shrek's family Mexican. Also TikTok reference but maybe that's the boomer in me just being bitter.

>1234
Holy GET

>>1325
Agree. Trailer doesn't look like AI generated to me. It looks like "The Croods", which is not a bad thing.
Though some ai generators learned to generate Shrek (or random ogre) it seems.

I simply am not going to watch any new Shrek installations. Just not going to. What they did to Ice Age was bad enough. It started as a really fun thing and ended like some lame whatever the fuck. No. Fuck off.

Yes, that's right: Hero Energy Bars for the Hero in everyone. Giving Heroes that extra energy boost since...
well, last year.

>>1507
It's kind of spooky they're just hanging in the mid-air like that. Huhhh. They're giving me heebie-jeebies!