One of three below-par summer sequels in 2007

Rating: 4/10 (1 November 2007)

It's a bad start when I went out to see Shrek The Third partly because I knew it would be short. Despite this, there were still a couple of moments where I was bored, but they had been left in to make 90+ minutes. STT is more of a proper kids' film in the style it wants to parody (ie, Disney) but that means that it loses the anarchic touches of the first two films. Compared to Spider Man 3 and Pirates 3 though, it drops the least amount of quality for being the third. It parodies and rips shots from Rosemary's Baby, Jurassic Park, The first Lord of the Rings Movie and, depending on how you like your trees, The Evil Dead OR the second Lord of The Rings film. This time, the homages couldn't save it, and had I not been waiting to watch Live Free or Die Hard, I wouldn't have killed time to watch it.
There's going to be the Solo Puss movie eventually and maybe that spin-off will help because this was just a cash-in.