Mike Myers strikes post-Austin Powers gold with
his Scottish lilt as the eponymous fearless ogre with repressed yearnings for Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), an enlightened damsel in distress, a nighttime secret, and a voice that will strike fear into any bluebird (in a bit that had a dozen critics rolling in the aisles at an early press screening).
McGregor is a real charmer, a young Malcolm McDowell with
a Scottish lilt; Brain Tufano's photography manages to be both rich and stark at once; Hodge's script has some genuinely arch lines.