Parenting & Family Quote by Mike Myers

Myers is doing two bits at once: the dad-fantasy pitch and the canon-making pitch. He starts with a hypothetical future - "when I have kids" - to frame Shrek as something sturdier than a disposable animated hit. That move matters because it smuggles cultural legitimacy through intimacy. He is not arguing box office or innovation; he is arguing bedside-read durability. If you can imagine rewatching something with your children, it graduates from "new release" to "ritual."

The wording is a comedy tell. "Well told, silly, and fun" is a deliberately unpretentious checklist, as if artistry has to wear a clown nose to get into the room. Myers, a comedian built on characters and voices, is defending craft without sounding like he is defending craft. He calls it a "fairy tale" twice, then upgrades it to "a real classic" and "a fairy tale classic" - repetition that works like persuasion by insistence. You can hear the industry anxiety underneath: animation gets treated as kid stuff; fairy tales get treated as museum pieces. Shrek, famously, is both and neither.

Context does the heavy lifting. Shrek arrived as a post-Disney fairy tale that mocked the whole apparatus - the princess, the quest, the neat moral - while still delivering the warmth and narrative satisfaction people secretly want from the old formula. Myers' praise signals that the parody is not contempt. The subtext is a plea for the film to be taken seriously precisely because it refuses to take itself seriously.