Lacks the magic touch of the predecessors

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2008)

Don't get me wrong here Â– like hosts of Shrek fans, my anxiety levels were RDXed up for the another outing of Shrek. However I felt letdown.
Technically the quality is superior to the previous Shrek's but seems like the efforts were concentrated on cramping as many animated characters possible into the movie. The earlier Shrek's rested heavily on the tongue-in-cheek lines which were spot-on, however this time they fall flat.
Prince Charming was already an irritating character in earlier Shrek's, but in "3", he gets a major footage and hence irritates a lot more.
Artie's character somehow fails to blend in. HelloÂ… the entire college episode is disjointed.
Merlin is hopeless (was he based on Steven Spielberg btw?).
Frog King episode Â…Â….. cough! cough! cough! Â….. was long-winded!
Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty Â– constipated humour and equally irritating as Prince Charming. BTW Â– all my good childhood memories are now gone awash!
Only saving grace was Puss-in-boots and Donkey swap episode.