Not bad, could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2009)

I have read quite a few of the other reviews, and I have to say that I agree with most of them overall.
I really loved the first two Shrek movies. They were fresh, and funny.
This movie was pretty good, but lost me towards the end. I liked that the ladies had to "take care of business", and especially the animal scenes with Beauty.
At one point, Fiona tells Charming how much trouble he will be in when Shrek comes back. At the end of the movie I was thinking to myself, why would Charming be worried about Shrek when the studio has turned him into a wuss? When he gets back from his little trip, he is immediately captured and spends most of the rest of the movie in chains.
This made me think about the first movie, when Shrek takes on the prince's knights all by himself. Kicking butt, because HE'S AN OGRE! None of that here, Shrek obediently gets captured and just sits there and takes all the abuse.
As well, during Shrek's little trip, they spend entirely too much time with the kid Arty, trying to convince him to come along. It got a little boring at this point, however the beginning of the trip was actually fairly funny. At one point, a girl in a high school asking Shrek if he would take her friend to a dance because she's into fairy tale creatures, and of Shrek "thou doth vex her so soothly".
Not a bad movie but just doesn't live up to the standards set by the first two.