moments are great but the story is too well known for it to fully work

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2010)

Its a another remake of Its a Wonderful Life but with ogres and fairy tale characters.
I'm really split about this film. They got so much right, the love between Shrek and Fiona for example, that you wonder why they bothered to remake a classic film. I mean the emotion and the bits work but the central plot is too worn and Rumpelstiltskin is too big a jerk Frankly had they managed to do something new, change the story around some how so it wasn't a direct steal this probably would be better, possibly the best of the films. But something doesn't work and despite getting so much dead on right there is a sense that they didn't care enough to completely make a full fledged film.
Worth seeing, more so than the last two, but I'd wait for DVD...something I should have done.