Lower than expectations...

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2010)

Shrek was a huge part of my childhood. All three were hilarious and not really targeted to children; all three were more for adults. However, I felt that "adult-in-a-kids-movie" feeling you sometimes get. You know, when they make a stupid joke and all the kids laugh, but the parents don't?
I got that awkward feeling many times. I also would have loved to see the older characters as well. I feel that would have completed it. I mean, needless to say, Puss-N-Boots and Donkey made me LOL, and the storyline was great, but if I took a step back and just looked at the whole movie, it did not meet expectations. It was not as funny which took away from the whole experience. To me the movies got progressively less funny.
Despite the negative review, I did not hate it, and if you've never seen the other 3 Shrek movies, you might actually enjoy this. However when it comes to Shrek standards and my standards, it gets close but not quite there.