Dude Shrek was a piece of shit and should be called a piece of shit. It was a piece of shit then, it's a piece of shit now, and if "people like it" is reason enough for canonization let's talk about the SNL "Here Comes Pat" sketches or Crocodile Dundee embarrassing a transgender woman to the uproarious laughter of the entire bar. Or fuckin' 20 years of Apu on The Simpsons.

People Of A Certain Age find garbage like "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" to be uproariously funny because it's chockablock with right-this-minute cultural references and it-people that preserve pre-Kennedy Assassination America in amber for the ElderBoomers to point at and scream "kidsthesedaysdon'tknowcomedy" as their teeth fall into their Geritol And It's Fucking Bullshit. So's Shrek. So's ALL Dreamworks animation. It marks the point where American entertainment switched from an attempt at universalism and broad appeal across all markets to a craven instant-by-instant pandering to the trends of the moment. It's why the only thing we make now is superhero movies and nostalgia pieces; no other country is going to spend the money on superheroes and nostalgia is the only way you can reliably bank on Americans. Every fucking movie is now a christmas movie.