Did We Need Another One?

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2010)

OK...so I really liked the other Shrek movies. How could you not laugh at jokes and perfect comedy connections of Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy? All in all, it was box office gold and entertained families as well..no argument there at all...but then they decide to make just one more..for reasons unknown. Sure, all the original characters are there..the cute ones, silly ones, weird ones and slightly freaky ones too. And then here comes Rumplestiltskin...? Who has an attitude or a mental illness...I was not quite sure which really. He looks bizarre and stupid...not scary or anything even remotely close to that. He screws up everything for Shrek...and the story is re-told..sort of. Most of it made no sense to me really. An ogre with a mid-life crisis? They tried too hard to make Shrek and Fiona appear to be human..the couple with too many kids, no time, etc....yawn. As funny as some parts were(fat Puss In Boots...the best part)....other parts made it a yawn fest. You cannot claim it was a movie geared at kids because even though it has marketing ties with toys, etc...it had too many jokes and puns only grownups would understand. The studio, etc...simply wanted to cash in a little more on stuff it already cashed in on once before. Leave it all alone and come up with something new and creative please. Hopefully, that will be possible at some point. I can only hope the planned movie based on "Puss" will be worth watching when it premieres.