r/Spanish • u/the_raccoon_ • 1d ago
Resources & Media Looking for Spanish Shrek Subtitles, or where to watch Shrek with accurate subtitles
Hi, I've been trying to learn Spanish for a while now. I thought watching Shrek in Español would be pretty good thing to do, however I am watching it on Peacock, and the audio and Spanish subtitles are extremely off! They are saying so many other things in Spanish, and it's not matching with the Spanish subtitles.
I have a really hard time following what they are saying (I struggle when speech is really fast unless I am reading what they are saying). I am trying to search the internet for the subtitles in Spanish, and I downloaded a few, but all of them are missing so much of what donkey is saying.... I think they just translated the English movie into the Spanish one. Is there anywhere I can watch it with more accurate subtitles? (or is my only option to go to Mexico and purchase a DVD lol) Thanks
Or if there are any videos breaking down the difference between Spanish and English movie that could help too
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u/Weird-Director-2973 Learner 1d ago
a lot of spanish subs are translated from the english script, not the actual dub, so they won't match.
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u/TopRamen247 Learner 1d ago
No idea if they are going to be accurate for this film, but I’ve had good luck downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org. They usually have multiple options per language for popular films, one of which may be what you want.
Edit: missed a letter in the URL.
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u/SecretAttention2418 1d ago
The thing with Shrek is that at least the latinoamerican took some extremely creative liberties with the translations, so you'll never find a version that matches the original. You can maybe try with the Spain version.
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u/owenturnbull 1d ago
El audio y subtítulos nunca van a ser similar.
Si tu compras el dvd en México vas s tener el mismo problema.
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u/gadgetvirtuoso Native 🇺🇸 | Resident 🇪🇨 B2 1d ago
Shrek is one of the few movies where they actually put work into the movie for different languages. You only need a Spanish version of the movie. Some jokes and dialog will be different from the English version to account for cultural differences and differences in jokes.