Unexpectedly Enjoyable

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2013)

I totally expected this to be a steaming pile of a washed-up franchise that DreamWorks was trying to squeeze the final pennies from our children out of. But it ended up being a fun movie with some laughs and a actually decent story, and unlike a certain other company's cheap sequel animation, this is as good as any other DreamWorks movie. The new villain was intriguing and the other new characters were well done as well. Seeing Puss on his own didn't flesh out the character much more than we already know from the Shrek films, and I was surprised to not see more cameos from other franchise characters. But no matter, a fine film for your collection. Even though it was only her voice, Salma Hayek is...muy en fuego.