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The film is perhaps most famous today for its blatant visual and marketing similarities to Shrek . Critics and audiences alike noted that Rucio bears an uncanny resemblance to Eddie Murphy’s "Donkey," and the film's promotional materials even boasted the tongue-in-cheek tagline "From the producers who saw Shrek".

Released in 2007, Donkey Xote is a Spanish-Italian animated adventure that takes a cheekily revisionist look at Miguel de Cervantes' classic literary masterpiece, Don Quixote . Directed by José Pozo and produced by Lumiq Studios and Filmax, the film attempts to blend traditional Spanish heritage with the high-energy, pop-culture-heavy style made famous by DreamWorks’ Shrek . While it serves as a "sequel" of sorts to the original novel, it flips the script by telling the story from the perspective of Rucio, Sancho Panza's donkey. The Story: A Donkey's Perspective Donkey Xote (2007)

: The movie is packed with anachronisms and references, such as Rucio cracking jokes about "a talking donkey friend who hangs out with a green ogre". The film is perhaps most famous today for

Despite its flaws, the film remains a curious artifact of early 2000s animation—a bold, if somewhat messy, attempt to bring 17th-century Spanish literature into the age of 3D snark and slapstick. Directed by José Pozo and produced by Lumiq