IMDB states:
“Reluctantly designated as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away, Shrek hatches a plan to install the rebellious Artie as the new king while Princess Fiona tries to fend off a coup d’état by the jilted Prince Charming.”
What they forget to mention is that Artie is Arthur Pendragon, Fiona is pregnant and Shrek is having a real problem coming to grips with his approaching fatherhood. The coup by Prince Charming is rolled back as easily as it happened and the movie ends with Fiona and Shrek having triplets.
Prince Charming as the villain is more of a joke, which is ok for a kids movie, but once again, there are lines here and there and references that I wouldn’t want a kid of mine hearing or seeing. The crassness levels are toned down. There is one scene though where Shrek and Fiona are all dressed up like French Royalty and Shrek has an itch on his bum. So he gets a flute player to scratch his bum and of course that is when the curtain rises and the entire assembly sees it. I laughed so hard.
The whole King Arthur storyline pushed the interactions between Donkey, Shrek and Puss n Boots to the side and the writers really didn’t come out shining. His story arc was predictably shallow and “emotional” and then wham, done. On the plus side, there is a scene where Shrek is trying to “relate” to Artie and talks like some sort of 60’s hippy teen on weed. Once again, that was gold! But one scene isn’t enough to carry a whole movie for character interaction.
This is step down from Shrek 2 and while I still enjoyed it, I think it definitely entered into stupid territory instead of clever territory. I could feel the steam running out of the franchise.
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But the box cover says “the best one yet.”
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Yeah, those movie people will lie straight to your face and then claim it is your fault when you catch them out.
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I guess they didn’t technically say the best *what* yet.
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See, lawyerese. The worst kind of talk.
It’s like saying “I did not inhale”….
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Don’t remember much about this one, 2 was better…
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That quite adequately sums up the movie in a nutshell.
And there’s no roller coasters or birds either….
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Glad I only saw the first, so that’s best to me.
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If you don’t feel the need to watch more Shrek, then yep, I’d say let the first one be your only one 🙂
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What’s next? Shrek the Halls? 😀 I don’t think I’ve heard anything good from anyone about anything released post-Shrek 2 though…
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There is one more Shrek movie. I don’t know if it has a name or just a number. I guess I’ll be finding out in a couple of weeks.
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It seems as if in this instance the third time was NOT the charm…. 🙂
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Yeah, not really. If you can watch it with a completely uncritical eye you’ll enjoy it more. But that is a very hard thing to pull off…
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Stupid territory instead of clever territory, haha! Yeah I would agree with that. I could watch the first and second ones over and over again, but I’ve always thought this third one was cringey.
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That’s how I feel about the 4th one, cringey I mean.
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Wow, wait, there’s a fourth? I thought they had kids and that was it. Did it ever make it to theaters or was it straight to video?
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Shrek 4ever After I believe is the title. Not sure if it was in theaters or not.
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Watched this so far back barely remember it…. guess it wasnt memorable even though I actually paid money for a movie ticket to watch this because my date was a fan of Shrek and thats about all I remember.
~B
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You have my sympathies. I would pay 99cents for this n that’s it 🙂
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