Shrek: AVOTF - Introduction

Introduction

  "Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss.
  She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed.
  She waited in the dragon's keep. In the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss."

  Yes, I know. You have already read or heard this from somewhere, most probably from your bedtime stories. When I was a kid I did listen to some of this sort of fairy tale. The world sure was sweeter and easier back then. This precise tale, however, had only come to my knowledge in my adulthood so I didn't really give that much of a care. But little did I know that (ironically) I would become part of this very bedtime story filled with magic, adventures, annoying creatures, a king with height issues, a black belt princess, a mighty dragon, a not-so-evil ogre and, of course, "the true love and true love's first kiss".

And what about you? Yes. I'm talking to you, my curious reader. Are you willing to follow this story telling session of mine? Yes? Alright then. Let me take you to the begining of all this: the first time I read Princess Fiona's fairy tale and decided to give it a really constructive and mature review.