ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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NOTE: These opinions are not my own and I am not responsible in any way for these comments expressed here (which are a copy of those expressed on the main CAP web site). These opinions are merely reproduced verbatim here for your convenience so you don't need to read all the additional text at the main CAP Web Site.

Film Shrek Linked to main entry on CAP Web Site

Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• WWF style violence
• skeletons and body parts
• graphic animal attacks
• bluebird exploding due to high pitched note
• defensive fighting
• impalement with an arrow
• knife blade to throat threat
• dragon eating a character
• inflation of a snake by mouth to make an animal shaped balloon
• torture of a character (gingerbread man)
• graphic expressions

Impudence/Hate:

• flatulence
• persecution based on outward appearance
• five uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
• urinating on a campfire
• crotch injury with a crunch
• bathing in what appears to be manure (which could conveniently be thought of as mud)

Sex/Homosexuality:

• brief rear male nudity, twice
• sexual innuendo
• dragon kissing the bare bottom of Shrek

Drugs/Alcohol:

• drinking

Offense to God:

• two uses of God's name in vain but without the four letter expletive

Murder/Suicide:

• none noted (the eating of Farquaad by the dragon was incorporated under Violence. Duplication is not permitted by the CAP analysis model