Too Much Humpty Dumpty and Not Enough Puss In Boots!

Rating: Null/10 (31 October 2011)

First of all, I am a huge fan of all of the Shrek movies and especially of the Puss In Boots character! To say that I was eagerly anticipating this movie would be an understatement. Now after seeing it I am very disappointed in the storywriters for this (in my opinion) very poorly written story. The Humpty Dumpty character took on way too big of a spotlight - overshadowing Puss in many, many instances. I found this a real shame. To me, the movie became more about Humpty than Puss! To make it worse, Humpty is a mean-spirited character - using his trickery, deceit, and backstabbing to accomplish his evil tasks - and at Puss's expense! Even after Puss forgives him once, Humpty deceives him again! And then at the end we watch (for me, in complete disgust) as Puss forgives him! Ridiculous!! Is this the message we want to give to our kids? What a horrible character! It is too bad the writers of this film chose to write such a story. This could have been so much better! I feel sorry too for Antonio and all the other actors/actresses who gave their fine talents to this film thinking it was going to be something real special, only to have it ruined by the Humpty Dumpty character. I was hoping this was going to be a special movie for me for years to come, but I don't think I will ever be able to watch it again as the Humpty character is so hateful and annoying to watch - and it is such an insult to good-thinking people that Puss forgives him (not once but twice) after all the deceit and hurt... Shame on the writers for this poorly written story! This should have been a special movie for children and grownups! What we have is a film with backstabbing, trickery, deceit, lies, and lots of sadness. Such a shame.