An animation movie for kids - Adults better look trailer only

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2007)

I was always a very big shrek fan and I was really looking forward to see the third movie in the theater. The Belgian critics already warned that this third movie is not like its predecessors, and I went to the theater with no expectations. I was really disappointed when after half an hour watching I was already bored like hell. Many people will not want to believe that it is possible to ruin such a successful movie series which had so many great characters in the two previous ones. Seems dreamworks is thinking more about money and franchising than about entertaining the audience with the double sensed good humor they always used. Instead of giving more of the characters like puss and donkey, they added up a bunch of characters with no personality It was shocking to see that the funny moments of the trailer almost all showed up in the first seven minutes of the movie. The moment shrek and his bunch go to search for Artie the movie starts to be really boring with in between (very) few moments with the good old humor that made 1 and 2 very amusing.
Dreamworks had so many potential with the new fairytale characters but instead of working out a few of them and to make a strong movie, they overwhelm us with every character you ever heard of in a fairytale in such a fast time that you are not even realizing who is all in it.
The new main character of Artie is just sad and boring. They didn't even did the effort to make him a bit funny and you will only see him giving stupid moral speeches, having a father son moment or playing a drama actor. Add the whole high school language humor and an annoying prince charming musical which together make the movie so dull that the moments with donkey and puss can't rescue the movie anymore. Luckely these two characters where in it or the movie would be rated 1/10 by me.
With the situation at the end (triplet shreks) I am curious how dreamworks is going to make a fourth movie. I really hope they learn from there mistakes and restore the good old humor in the fourth one.
Anyhow this is just an adult opinion, there were kids in the audience and they seemed to like it a lot.