Rat-a-ta-take that, Shrek

I've never been particularly into the Shrek franchise. This is kind of unusual for me in re: clever, hip media; I enjoy a good bandwagon jump as much as the next Net nerd, and have the 25 MST3K videos to prove it. Plus, Eddie Murphy, who as Mushu in Mulan is directly responsible for #2 on my all-time Sidekicks So Good I Bought the Movie list (after Robin Williams in Aladdin) and my sister, who loves the ogre movies, is forever telling me it's the exact same character, like, really, she swears.

Somehow, though, I've been immune to Murphy's equine charms, and everything else about the animation breakthrough of the millennium. Have always felt vaguely perturbed about that...until last night, when we foregathered around the Ratatouille DVD. Ten - no, five - hell, thirty freaking seconds into that movie, and I was not only vindicated in full but sailing along in full revelatory mode.

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