Shrek (franchise)

Shrek
Cover art for Shrek: The Whole Story, which includes the first four Shrek films.
Creator	DreamWorks Animation
Films and television
Films	Shrek Shrek 2 Shrek the Third Shrek Forever After Puss in Boots
Short films	Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party Shrek 4-D Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular Thriller Night The Pig Who Cried Werewolf Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos
Television series	The Adventures of Puss in Boots
Television specials	Shrek the Halls Scared Shrekless
Theatrical presentations
Musicals	Shrek The Musical
Games
Video games	Shrek Shrek 2 Shrek the Third Shrek Forever After Many others
Audio
Soundtracks	List of songs featured in Shrek

The Shrek franchise from DreamWorks Animation, based on William Steig's picture book Shrek!, consists of four computer-animated films including: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010), with a fifth film planned for a 2019 or 2020 release. A short 4-D film, Shrek 4-D, which originally was a theme park ride, was released in 2003.

Two television specials, the Christmas television special Shrek the Halls (2007) and the Halloween television special Scared Shrekless (2010), have also been produced. A spin-off film titled Puss in Boots was released in October 2011, and a 2008 Broadway musical adaption was produced for two years.

The series primarily focuses on Shrek, a reclusive and grouchy but kindhearted ogre, who becomes a respected hero with an ever growing collection of friends and family in a fairy tale world in spite of himself.

In May 2010, The New York Times called the principal Shrek characters "brilliantly realized" and said "nearly a decade after the first Shrek film they remain as vital and engaging fusions of image, personality and voice as any characters in the history of animation." The series was a financial success, becoming the 13th highest-grossing franchise of all time, and the highest-grossing animated franchise.