Shrek the Halls (2007) (TV)

Director:

Gary Trousdale

Writers:

Gary Trousdale (screenplay) &
Sean Bishop (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

28 November 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Plot:

This half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions. |

Plot Keywords:

Friendship | Ogre | Holiday | Christmas | Cat

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Mike Myers	...	Shrek (voice)
Eddie Murphy	...	Donkey (voice)
Cameron Diaz	...	Princess Fiona (voice)
Antonio Banderas	...	Puss in Boots (voice)
Cody Cameron	...	Pinocchio / Three Pigs (voice)
Susan Fitzer	...	Suzie Cookie (voice)
Christopher Knights	...	Blind Mice (voice)
Gary Trousdale	...	Santa (voice)
Conrad Vernon	...	Gingerbread Man (voice)
Aron Warner	...	Wolf (voice)
Marissa Jaret Winokur	...	Bookstore Clerk (voice)
Miles Christopher Bakshi	...	Ogre Baby (voice)
Nina Zoe Bakshi	...	Ogre Baby (voice)
Dante James Hauser	...	Ogre Baby (voice)

Directed by
Gary Trousdale

Writing credits
Gary Trousdale		(screenplay) &
Sean Bishop		(screenplay) and
Theresa Cullen		(screenplay) &
Bill Riling		(screenplay)
William Steig		(book "Shrek!")

Produced by
Teresa Cheng	....	producer
Gina Shay	....	producer
Aron Warner	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Harry Gregson-Williams

Film Editing by
William J. Caparella

Casting by
Leslee Feldman

Production Design by
Henrik Tamm
Peter Zaslav

Production Management
Ryan Harris	....	production supervisor
Robyn Mesher	....	production supervisor
Trinity Murphy	....	production supervisor
Jason Lee Pope	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Travis Koller	....	visual development artist
Erwin Madrid	....	visual development artist
Paul Shardlow	....	visual development artist
Tracey Michelle Arnold	....	production artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Richard L. Anderson	....	supervising sound editor
James Christopher	....	sound effects editor
Tamara Johnson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Darrin Mann	....	foley mixer
Carlos Sotolongo	....	adr mixer
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer

Visual Effects by
Florent Andorra	....	digital effects artist: PDI/Dreamworks
Matt Baer	....	effects animator
Markus Burki	....	visual effects animator
Craig Cannon	....	paint fixer
Lisa Slates Connors	....	surfacing artist
Kwesi Davis	....	production engineer
Mark A. Decker	....	lighting artist
Philippe Denis	....	visual effects supervisor
Cassandra Fanning	....	paint/roto artist
Angela Ensele Firebaugh	....	modeler
Benjamin Fischler	....	lighter & compositor
Jerome Fournier	....	matte painting
Ryan Gong	....	animator
Katy Harrison	....	lighting technical director
Emily How	....	digital artist
Tobin Jones	....	effects animator
Jennifer Leigh King	....	digital artist
Robert Kopinsky	....	effects animator
Andre LeBlanc	....	visual effects lead
Jinwoo Lee	....	modeler
Michael H. Lee	....	supervising technical director
David Lipton	....	head of effects
Amber Stewart Lunderville	....	lighting artist
Mark Manfrey	....	digital effects artist
Gerald McAleece III	....	senior layout artist
Steve McGrath	....	lead modeler
Gaku Nakatani	....	lead lighter
Ori Neidich	....	media tools & post-production technology engineer
Nikita Pavlov	....	visual effects
Olivier Pinol	....	lighting animator
Damon Riesberg	....	character effects animator lead
Eli Rod	....	lighter
Carlos M. Rosas	....	senior character animator
Robert Rossoff	....	senior layout artist
Scott C. Sells	....	effects technical director
Jon Shih	....	lighting technical director
Koen Vroeijenstijn	....	visual effects animator
Andrew Wheeler	....	effects lead
Lori Williams	....	digital artist
Laura Wood	....	production engineer
Stephen Wood	....	visual effects animator
Ken Yao	....	character effects animator

Animation Department
Manuel Almela	....	animator
Tim Cheung	....	animation supervisor
Paul Chung	....	supervising animator
Katrina Conwright	....	animator
Roberto Espanto Domingo	....	animator (as Robert Espanto Domingo)
Mark Donald	....	animator
Jerome Fournier	....	background artist
Ryan Gong	....	animator
Mariko Hoshi	....	animator
Pamela Hu	....	final layout artist
Patrick Jensen	....	matte painter
Jeffrey Joe	....	animator
Heather Knight	....	animator
Conan Low	....	senior layout artist
Patrick Mate	....	character designer
Eunjin Suh	....	animator
Mark Williams	....	animator (as Mark A. Williams)

Casting Department
Leigh French	....	adr voice casting
Elena Siegel	....	casting assistant
Christi Soper	....	casting associate

Editorial Department
John Dorst	....	assistant editor (as J. John Dorst)
Susan Fitzer	....	associate editor
Alex McDonnell	....	assistant editor
Stephen L. Meek	....	assistant editor
Joe Monteleone	....	assistant editor
Michael Rogers	....	associate editor
Marcus Taylor	....	additional editor

Music Department
Dan Arriaga	....	music consultant
Stephen Barton	....	composer: additional music
Kirk Bennett	....	orchestrator
David Buckley	....	composer: additional music
Meri Gavin	....	music editor
Charlene Ann Huang	....	music coordinator
Jamie Luker	....	music scoring engineer
Malcolm Luker	....	music scoring mixer
Sunny Park	....	executive in charge of music
Robert Puff	....	music preparation
Jochen Schild	....	additional music engineer
Richard Whitfield	....	music editor

Other crew
Holly Allen	....	production engineer
Tracey Michelle Arnold	....	production coordinator
Steve Baker	....	research and development
Mark Baldo	....	pre-production director
Will Bilton	....	research and development
Patrick Danford	....	audio visual engineer
Sanjay Das	....	director of research and development
Jayson DeLancey	....	production engineer
Jannette Eng	....	production coordinator
Juli Gumbiner	....	technical resource supervisor
Stephanie Huber	....	administrative assistant
Daniel Jay Inkeles	....	production intern
David Isetta	....	production coordinator
Mark Jackels	....	production engineer
Geoffrey Jarrett	....	technical resource administrator
Jim Leuper	....	effects engineer
Melissa MacKay	....	assistant to director and producers
Alyssa Mauney	....	assistant to producers
Chris Miller	....	dialogue director
Olivier Mouroux	....	unit publicist
Jeffrey Nickerson	....	technology coordinator
John O'Sullivan	....	systems administrator
Paul Replicon	....	technical resource administrator
Joshua F. Richards	....	research and development
Jason Richman	....	production intern
Andrew Richmond	....	production intern
Stephen E. Ross	....	systems administrator
David Ian Salter	....	pre-production director
Hayyim Sanchez	....	surfacing artist
Donald Schmidt	....	research and development
Jon Eric Schmidt	....	production assistant
Morgan J. Steele	....	administative assistant
Mark M. Tokunaga	....	manager of digital resources
Alexander Wu	....	production coordinator

Thanks
Debbie L. O'Keeffe	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• DreamWorks Animation
• Pacific Data Images (PDI)

Distributors

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2007) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• TV2 (2007) (Hungary) (TV)
• Mainostelevisio (MTV3) (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• RTL Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing) (RTL4)
• TV3 (2007) (Estonia) (TV)

Runtime:

30 min (with commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Quotes:

Donkey: My mama used to always say, 'Christmas ain't Christmas till somebody cries!' Usually that someone's me.

Movie Connections:

References Gojira (1954)

Funny and warming – reminded me why I loved the first Shrek film

For many months Shrek has been ignoring Donkey's excitable babbling about Christmas. However it is only at the very last minute that he learns that this is something special to Fiona and the kids too. Going out in a rush to get things organised, Shrek buys a "how to" book on the perfect Christmas and sets about giving Fiona the perfect family Christmas. Problem is, Donkey has a different understanding of the word "family" than Shrek....

I hadn't seen Shrek The Third when I watched this but when one reviewer mentioned this short film as being the reason they had nothing good left for the film, I thought it was worth twenty or so minutes. And indeed it was as it produced a perfect piece of animated fun for Christmas Eve. The story is about the meaning of Christmas and it has a great moral at the end on how it doesn't have to be perfect because no family is. This worked better for me than the usual sugar coated Christmas ideals that get served up each year but this was a side issue for me as really I was there for the laughs.

Fortunately these are present in spades with the film being consistently funny with a hatful of really good laugh-out-loud moments. The German pigs are a treat and the gingerbread man's horrific experience with Santa is a clever reference as well as being very funny while Donkey of course does his usual fast talking stuff. Shrek and Fiona are, as normal, handed slightly weaker material as they are at the core of the film and thus not able to just drop in for a funny line or strong scene, but they are still fun. My favourite moment was Puss losing himself playing with a bauble ("I have shamed myself") – that had me rolling. The voice work is roundly good and the laughs are reasonably evenly spread out for everyone to get a bite.

Overall then a very funny and warming Christmas animation that demonstrates the sort of touch and humour that made us all love Shrek in the first place.