Dull, bland and forgettable, but not as bad as Shrek The Third

Rating: 4/10 (30 May 2010)

Shrek 1 & 2 were both masterpieces in their own right, and Shrek The Third was awful. Shrek Forever After is mediocre but now this series must come to an end. The new car smell of the series has worn off, and it just feels like they're doing the same thing over and over and over again. This is just disposable family entertainment meant for parents to spend $10 to take their children to it, and this movie is alright enough so that if the kids like it, the parents won't mind. All the old voices (Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz) return, along with new voices like Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, Kathy Griffin, Kristen Schaal, Mary Kay Place, and scene stealing Walt Bohrn as Rumpelstiltskin, the mean, cynical man who cons Shrek into never being born. This is basically an animated, ogre-filled version of It's A Wonderful Life. That might of been a good idea if the execution were actually good, but it's dull, bland, and forgettable. The Pied Piper comes in as a character playing a bounty hunter role, and he's awesome, but the good outweighs the bad and unless you have kids begging you to see Shrek Forever After, then you'd be better off just skipping it.