Disappointing!

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2010)

Like most people, I loved the first 2 Shrek movies, and even though I don't remember much about the third one, I was still expecting this one to be funny since I remember laughing so hard with #2. Sadly, I didn't think it was funny at all! If anything, it was too dark and serious as Shrek, unhappy with his married life, sets off to go rediscover himself in a bleak alternate universe.
The characters felt like nothing new, we've seen them 3 times now and there's nothing much interesting about them this time around. No one had anything funny to say, and most of the jokes were already seen in the trailer. The new villain was decent, Rumpelstiltskin, but other than him there weren't any new characters at all, at least not any memorable ones.
I'd put this one in the "wait to see it on DVD" category if you're a big Shrek fan.