Should be called "Prince Charming, part 2"

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2009)

Basically, I'll copy/paste most important pieces I wrote for the second sequel.
Shrek 3 is not an animated movie in any common sense one would or could expect. It is a real movie disguised in an animated form. If you look at it that way, you can much better understand the 'subtle' layer under-laying below the surface which is rude, arrogant and shallow.
Shrek The Third picks up the story where it left at the previous sequel and tries to establish disturbed balance it introduced. Prince Charming, Part II, as I call it, is not (only) about Shrek. The main character here, you wan't believe it, is Prince Charming; he portray human greed, self-centered, self-important figure in an attempt to live up to it's pre-programmed life, unable to cope with reality and the fact expected (or desired) things are never going to happen. Does anyone here recognize themself a little bit? Be honest.
Here comes a layer that usually lacks much needed subtlness during the movie: By no coincidence, Prince Charming is at moments emotional (crying), and angry at it's extremes, swinging between those two feelings. Society not accepting his behavior shows cruelty (laughing) that evokes an emotion of abandoned creature, loneliness, disappointment and despair. A natural response to this is a defensive mechanism imprinted in every living soul on Earth: anger and wish for a revenge, that unfortunately overtook's our anti-hero's heaart. He is just 'a human' unable to cope with his loss.
This is the reason I think the main character is not Shrek at all, who is slightly pushed aside for the good second half of the movie. The leak of subtlness in the story is what makes this sequel weaker than the first one (altought the chosen story is by no means weak and uninteresting); the way it was realized does.