Neither the best nor the worst

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2007)

I went out to watch it last night, and after reading some of the comments over here I expected it to be way worse than the first two ones. At the beginning I was VERY pleasantly surprised, it was actually funny and I hoped it would continue like that. After about 20 minutes it starts to rely on its story, which definitely was a bad decision. The story just doesn't have the momentum to catch the watcher's attention. But for the most part that really isn't a problem. There are LOTS of jokes and funny scenes, especially with reference to the modern pop culture (the school scenes made really cracked me up...). I think it doesn't match the level of Shrek 2, but it comes pretty close, and it definitely isn't the by far worst part of the trilogy. It is pretty much on par with the first one and a worse than Shrek 2, but for sure it is worthwhile watching!