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The song's accompanying music video features characters from the superhero film Mystery Men (1999), which itself prominently featured "All Star". The song became ubiquitous in popular culture following multiple appearances in films, such as in Mystery Men , Digimon: The Movie , and most notably in DreamWorks Animation 's 2001 film Shrek .
The Shrek soundtracks are a collection of soundtracks from all four movies of the Shrek series, including separate editions for the movie score.Each soundtrack contains all songs that featured in their respective film, and the score album contains the music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell.
They first achieved success with their 1997 song "Walkin' on the Sun". [7] The band's 1999 song "All Star" reached the top 10 in the United States, and it regained popularity after being featured in the 2001 film Shrek. [8] Harwell was a featured cast member in the sixth season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life in 2006. [9]
20 years after "Shrek" hit theaters, Smash Mouth's Paul DeLisle sets the record straight on the band's feelings about its "All Star" green legacy.
The filmmakers for Shrek had originally used the song as a placeholder for the opening credits and intended to replace it with an original composition by Matt Mahaffey’s band Self that would mimic the feel of "All Star", named Stay Home. However, DreamWorks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg suggested for them to use "All Star" over the sequence ...
Shrek the Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film Shrek , along with elements of its sequels: Shrek 2 , Shrek Forever After and William Steig 's 1990 book Shrek! .
[1] [2] The single "I'm a Believer" is the last Smash Mouth song to reach the top five of a chart, peaking at number 4 on the US Adult Top 40. [3] Both "All Star" and "I'm a Believer" were featured on the soundtrack for the 2001 film Shrek. [8] Smash Mouth's next studio album, Get the Picture?, was released in 2003.
The first of these was to write a song for the opening scene of the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek. [2] Simultaneously, the studio was considering using Smash Mouth's "All Star" for the sequence, motivating Mahaffey to try topping it. He began writing and composing the song after watching a rough cut of the movie.