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Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2010)

Shrek Forever After
The best part of living in a fairy tale is that if you can trick a troll into wearing its clothes backwards, the talking fish will revert back to your lost sense of courage.
In fact, every contract in a fable has a clause, and that's exactly what Shrek (Mike Meyers) and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) are looking for in this fourth installment.
Fed up with family life, Shrek makes an imprudent pact with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn), in which the trickster makes it so he never existed.
Trapped in a world ruled by Rumpelstiltskin, where Fiona (Cameron Diaz) leads a group of agitators, Shrek must share true love's kiss by day's end.
Like its reference to It's a Wonderful Life, Shrek 4 would be better off if it never existed: the story's uninspired, the characters are tired, and the songs are lame.
Besides, any deal that doesn't involve your first-born isn't worth making. (Red Light)