And excuse for another Shrek (slight spoilage but nothing major)

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2007)

This film was completely lacking. It was incredibly short- over too fast and far too predictable. The music selection was bland, as in I heard all of the songs before. I liked the earlier movies better as they had sort of strange, unusual and neat new music from smaller artists.
Most of the humor was "dirtier" (I don't mean to sound lame) with an emphasis on Fiona's pregnancy, implications of it, swearing being covered up by the ship's horn, Merlin's clothes not long enough to cover his (cuts off)...
This need to extend the funniness out of a lack of better material is apparent in the scene when the frog King (Fiona's father) dies (3 times... waking up again to finish his last words after ridiculously exaggerated gasps of air) and was in no way funnier than if he had just died. (In fact that might have actually created tension in this otherwise meaningless story) Another shot at humor occurs in the high school, when the girls use language such as "totally" "like" and "duhhh"- which also was not funny considering how unoriginal and predictable it was.
All over I was very disappointed with it. And I'm a HUGE fan of Shrek I & II. My favorite was Shrek II since the storyline, complex characters, music, computer graphics and humor all seemed to be at a much higher level than the first- which I had memorized all the lines of. The story took many turns, was refreshing in its wit, and seemed to me the ultimate sequel- one that blew away viewers by beating the original- a rare feat.
But Shrek the Third... not so much. I hate to ruin the magic for Shrek lovers, but it's just not worth the 8+ dollars to see.