As soon as it was over I wanted to flee the cinema but the rest of the parents waited for the credits and excitedly commented, “oh, that was John Cleese”. “That was Cameron Diaz”. Etc.
But the film was animated and the voices were not of those people!
Decades later I still don’t understand.
I am in no position to judge if that is true for Shrek.
(BTW, the German word for fear is Schreck [not a perfect translation, but the same spirit], yet I never made the connection mentioned in the article. Cool!)
Hard to say what kind of shrek we would have had today if he had made it.
My wife has been brought up with dubbing, so initially had aversion to subtitles; she felt her attention was split between text, and following actions/acting. But - after a few movies, she's now a subtitle convert as well - she's seen how much gets lost in dubbing.
Of course for kids, this may be a moot point as they cannot read subtitles either way.
Just to be nitpicky, it was 100% a sequel (as John Cleese only appears in those).