TV Tuesday: Shrek The Halls (2007)

 

Shrek The Halls - 2007

On this edition of TV Tuesday, we feature "Shrek The Halls", where we see Shrek and the gang celebrate Christmas.

The film's voice cast includes Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy, Aron Warner, Conrad Vernon, Cody Cameron, Christopher Knights, and Marissa Janet Winokur.

It's Christmastime in the swamp, and Shrek has promised Fiona and the kids something special.  He doesn't know the first thing about Christmas.  So, he's got to learn in a hurry.

He goes into town, where an overzealous bookseller gives him a crash course in Christmas.  She stresses the importance of the telling of the Christmas story, which has Shrek more than a little bit worried.

Back at home, Shrek starts in on the decorating.  Donkey isn't at all impressed.  "It's horrible!" he says.  "Usually, they just throw toilet paper and run away, but whoever did this means business!"

Donkey is visiting Shrek and Fiona so that he can pass out his Christmas card.  Shrek just rolls his eyes.

That night (Christmas Eve), Shrek and Fiona's friends come over for an impromptu Christmas party and swap Christmas stories.  Donkey tells of magical peacocks, a dancing roast turkey, and a waffle Santa Claus fifty feet high!

Puss tells of leather cravats and a cute little fuzzy thing hanging from his hat!

Gingy tells a horror story of actually ending up on the plate of cookies offered to Santa.  His girlfriend Susie gets eaten.

Things aren't striking the right note for Shrek, though.  He wants everything to be perfect for his family and he's not feeling that the evening is going as it should.  After a misunderstanding, everyone comes into the house for a sleepover, and Shrek gets to tell his Christmas story.

'Twas the night before Christmas, not a swamp rat did creep, as mom and the kids played kazoo in their sleep.

The house was a sight that would make any ogre droop for it was sickeningly sweet as unicorn poop.

And who should arrive to help this lost cause?  The vile, the foul, and handsome Ogre Claus. ("Hey, how's it going?")  He looked around scratching his beard, and said..."This is worse than I thought...feared!"  So, he adjusted his gut and scrunched up his face and let out a belch that transformed the place.

Seeing that his work was all done, he turned to the kids and he gave one by one a bottle of festering swamp juice and to mom a kiss and a big Christmas goose.  ("Four hundred twenty-five degrees, twenty minutes per pound.")

And I heard him exclaim as he rode out of sight, "Smelly Christmas to all, and to all a gross night!"

Shrek and the gang then get a Christmas surprise as Santa is riding by and performs a little magic with the moon.

Cast rundown:

   Mike Myers...................................Shrek

   Cameron Diaz...............................Princess Fiona

   Antonio Banderas...........................Puss In Boots

   Eddie Murphy................................Donkey

   Aron Warner..................................Wolf

   Conrad Vernon..............................Gingerbread Man

   Cody Cameron..............................Pinocchio/Three Pigs

   Christopher Knights.......................Blind Mice

   Marissa Janet Winokur....................Bookstore Clerk

And that's it for Shrek The Halls.  It's a pretty great installment in the Shrek franchise.  I love Shrek's take on the "Night Before Christmas" poem.

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