Honestly...they could have stuck with just the two...

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2007)

First off the bat, I loved "Shrek" and "Shrek 2", so naturally I went to see this one with high hopes that it would live up to it's amazing predecessors, I was ultimately disappointed. It seemed like the premise could have worked, but the script writing process seemed rushed and the product itself seemed vague and unorganized. It wasn't as humorous as the other two had been, less adult jokes that the parents and young adults in the theater can truly laugh out loud with. In the other films they had a great balance of the two, not so in this one. Also they seemed to try to hard for the adults to get a laugh, using "Live and Let Die" and "Immigrant Song" to spark some sort of chuckle with us, but the result just didn't work for me. Small children will probably end up liking it, but for the adults looking for the same humor as that was in the first two, you may be disappointed. There was very little character development of new characters and this time around Shrek might have well dressed up in a baby polar bear or panda costume and begin dancing around, he was least like an ogre and more like Ozzy Osmund than he ever has been.