No one thought about the children
Oh dear, this won’t go over well with the soccer mom brigade.
Some things may seem like a good idea at the time but hindsight (and parents ire) often prove them to be otherwise. Such is the case with the spread in V-Man magazine, which showcases the main characters of the Shrek movies in a series of suggestive photos with a bunch of male and female models, some in various stages of undress.
Cue the self-rightous outrage from watchdog groups and parents!
A spokesminion from Dreamworks issued a statement saying, “While we do respect V-man’s creative vision, the shoot did not turn out the way originally envisioned when the idea was first presented by the magazine. In hindsight, we would have declined to include the ‘Shrek’ characters in such a magazine spread.”
Actually most parents with young kids (if they stop to think about it for a second) get it. V-Man is hardly the type of magazine to be picked up by the age ten and under crowd and if you’ve seen the first three movies, half the humour is suggestive and aimed at adults anyway.
On the bright side, this will certainly get people talking about the fourth installment of the franchise, Shrek Forever After, although maybe not in the way it was originally intended.
