This paper concerns the connection between shape theory and attractors for semidynamical systems in metric spaces. We show that intrinsic shape theory from [6] is a convenient framework to study the global properties which the attractor inherits from the phase space. Namely, following [6] we’ll improve some of the previous results about the shape of global attractors in arbitrary metrizable spaces by using the intrinsic approach to shape which combines continuity up to a covering and the corresponding homotopies of first order.