Darkbeer
05-22-2003, 03:52 PM
'Shrek 4-D' breaks the mold (http://www.calendarlive.com/family/cl-wk-kidsbright22may22,0,396603.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels) - Los Angeles Times, 5/22/03
QuikQuote: That, in turn, makes the effects even more surprising when they come. Such as the moving seats. At times, Shrek 4-D plays more like Disney's Star Tours ride than other 4-D shows. That fact is not lost on its creators, who pay homage to Star Tours' Death Star attack with a flying dragon chase through a narrow canyon.
It's not the only reference to Disney in Shrek 4-D, which opens with a frog trying to eat Tinkerbell and ends with the poor little Disney fairy smashed into the theater wall. The original "Shrek" ridiculed the shallowness of Disney's animated fairy tales and the sterility of its theme parks.
Shrek 4-D doesn't directly attack Disney's parks, but it does land its punch by being far more entertaining than anything a Disney park has opened in years.
QuikQuote: That, in turn, makes the effects even more surprising when they come. Such as the moving seats. At times, Shrek 4-D plays more like Disney's Star Tours ride than other 4-D shows. That fact is not lost on its creators, who pay homage to Star Tours' Death Star attack with a flying dragon chase through a narrow canyon.
It's not the only reference to Disney in Shrek 4-D, which opens with a frog trying to eat Tinkerbell and ends with the poor little Disney fairy smashed into the theater wall. The original "Shrek" ridiculed the shallowness of Disney's animated fairy tales and the sterility of its theme parks.
Shrek 4-D doesn't directly attack Disney's parks, but it does land its punch by being far more entertaining than anything a Disney park has opened in years.