The Shrek franchise from DreamWorks Animation includes 4 films released between 2001-2010 that were based on the 1990 book Shrek! and told the story of an ogre named Shrek who goes on adventures. The films starring Mike Myers as the voice of Shrek were hugely successful commercially, grossing over $3 billion total at the global box office and popularizing the premise of taking traditional fairy tale characters and putting an irreverent, subversive spin on them. The Shrek films helped establish DreamWorks Animation as a major player in the animation industry.