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However, Myers desire to abandon the movie on the brink of production ultimately led to an acrimonious and public legal battle with the two main production entities behind it, Universal and Imagine. Additionally, the actor lent his vocal talents to DreamWorks SKG's animated film "Shrek" (2001) portraying the title ogre who finds true love with an unattractive princess. The immensely popular film was called the year's best movie by many critics and Myer's impressive heavy Scottish accent voice for Shrek became an instant classic.

Myers reprised his most popular role in 2002 in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002). Myers' turn as a sharp-tongued flight attendant opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the long-delayed, disappointing comedy "A View From the Top" finally saw the light of day in 2003; his amusing, self-conscious performance almost redeemed the film—but not quite. In addition, Myers buried the hatchet with Imagine chief Brian Grazer and accepted the role of the Cat in the hyperactive live version of Dr. Seuss’s "The Cat in the Hat" (2003). More concerned with production design than storytelling, the disappointing adaptation also wasn't best served by Myers' odd choices, including adopting a Linda Richman-like New Yawk accent and inserting questionable scatological humor into the dialogue.

In June 2000, Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for backing out of a contract to play Dieter, the SNL character, in a feature film. Myers said he refused to honor the $20 million contract because he didn't want to cheat moviegoers with an unacceptable script - one that he himself had written. Myers countersued, and a settlement was reached after several months where Myers agreed to make another film with Universal. That film would be The Cat in the Hat, released in November 2003 and starring Myers as the title character. In 2001, Myers played the title character in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek (2001). 

He reprised this role in Shrek 4-D in 2003, Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek The Third, and the Christmas special Shrek The Halls, both in 2007. Myers is a member of the band Ming Tea along with Bangles guitarist and vocalist Susanna Hoffs and musician Matthew Sweet. They performed the songs BBC and Daddy Wasn't There for the Austin Powers movies.

After providing his voice for the sequel “Shrek 2” (2004), Myers took a noticeable hiatus from the big screen that included a few interesting personal moments. On September 2, 2005, Myers appeared with rapper Kanye West as a presenter during NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief,” an hour-long benefit to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. West deviated from the script to complain about the media’s portrayal of black people in New Orleans, which Myers chose to ignore by continuing to read from the teleprompter. But when West declared that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” Myers couldn’t help doing a double-take before cameras cut unexpectedly to the next presenter (Chris Tucker). A month later, Myers appeared alongside West for a brief, but hilarious skit on “Saturday Night Live,” saying that the government had revoked the rapper’s citizenship and the FBI was monitoring his activities.

Meanwhile, Myers quietly separated from wife Robin Ruzan after twelve years of marriage with neither citing a reason, but stating that the two remained “committed and caring friends.” Returning to his bread and butter, Myers was the starring voice once again for “Shrek the Third” (2007), which saw the prickly Ogre suddenly become king of Far Far Away after his frogger-in-law King Harold suddenly croak. A reluctant Ogre-King tries to find a suitable replacement—Queen Fiona’s (Cameron Diaz) long-lost underachieving cousin Artie (Justin Timberlake). After a long absence from live-action features, Myers was set to make his return, starring in the comedy vehicle “The Love Guru” (2008), playing a new character creation, Pitka, a self-help guru called upon to solve couple’s romantic problems. Myers gave Pitka a test-run in 2006 in New York City theaters. 

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. As of September 29, Myers has been signed on to play the lead role in the upcoming biopic of The Who drummer Keith Moon. The film will be produced by Roger Daltrey, Nigel Sinclair, and Paul Gerber.

During a CBS interview in 2007, Myers noted that he normally takes three years between films. He spends one year "living his life" and then writes multiple screenplays, develops characters, practices them in front of live audiences, and then selects one of the screenplays to film. Myers noted that this was the Marx Brothers' procedure for developing their film material. On June 3, 2007, Myers received the MTV Generation award, making him the 2nd Canadian to win the award (Jim Carrey was the first in 2006), for bringing his unique style of comedy to small and big screens alike.