Blatantly misogynistic.

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2007)

Why, exactly, does this film focus on Shrek's decision about whether he wants to be king? Shrek is not the heir to the throne. Fiona is. You remember Princess Fiona, right? She was in the previous two films, in which she kicked butt and took names. In this one, she barely has the nerve to tell her husband that she's pregnant; maybe it's too much for me to hope that she would take charge of her own kingdom.
I couldn't enjoy this film because I kept wondering when Fiona, previously an empowering role model for girls, would make her position plain about whether she wanted to be queen. The pseudo-"grrl power" scenes in which fairy tale princesses gear up to fight villains did not make up for this glaring plot hole, though the writers seemed to think that they did.