A slight disappointment...

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2010)

I just finished watching this on DVD...and I'm happy that I didn't waste my time and money in the theater.
Maybe that's a little too rough. The movie wasn't THAT bad, but I thought they could've done ten times better than what I have just watched. The animation was good, the actors were good, blah blah blah. Plot wasn't too bad either. A little dark, but not bad. And they also make some references from the older movies, which I loved.
Granted that I had high expectations for it (mostly because I've been told that it was the best one for the series). It wasn't at all funny as I thought it would be, except for a couple moments, and Shrek was so cheesy, it was embarrassing. I mean, even Donkey and Puss weren't that funny, and they usually make the movies.
Oh, and I've read about someone saying how it's so horrible of Donkey to call Gingy a "cracker", and they said how racial it was. For me, it was hilarious. I don't think they intended for it to be bad, just to make a joke, since Gingy is, in fact, a cracker, and most of the kids wouldn't know anyways.
Overall, I gave this movie a 7/10, due to the lack of jokes (that I'm used to seeing from the Shrek series) and Shrek's cheesiness. If you've seen the last three, then I recommend to just finish it up. Like I said, it's not THAT bad, but I wouldn't buy it.