Desperately short of gags

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2012)

I simply don't understand where they were trying to go with this. Since they were cashing in for a third and final time, it would make good financial sense to spend money on the script and up the jokes-per-minute to something that rivals the first movie. But fresh in my memory though this still is, I can't remember a single gag.
I saw a lot of emotional conflict and a rather severe life lesson for a character that was under a lot of (totally understandable) emotional stress - was that really the point? This is a children's movie from a franchise that initially promised to entertain kids and adults alike. Why should kids care about Shrek's marriage problems unless it's somehow funny?
Really quite a bizarre experience. The franchise went from original and fast-paced, belly-laugh funny family movie to tiresome soap opera in 4 hops. The sheer greedy ineptitude of those that allowed it to get from paper to screen in this form is just mind boggling.
Funny movie with no jokes, so no points.