There’s a moment in Shrek, right after Donkey moves in and starts humming “On the Road Again,” where you realize that this isn’t just another animated movie. It’s messy, meta, and weirdly sincere. And that’s what marked a turning point. Before Shrek, animated movies played it straight with classic fairy tale tropes. After Shrek, they got louder, funnier, and a lot more self-aware.

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