Animated Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book of the same name. The main character, Shrek, is an OGRE who embarks on a quest to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona from a fire-breathing dragon. Shrek is accompanied by a wise-cracking donkey, and together they battle a host of fairy-tale villains. The term ANIMATED SHREK can be summarized as a computer-animated comedy film featuring an OGRE named Shrek on a quest to save a princess from a dragon. The four-letter solution for this term is OGRE.