Shrek ....... the lost plot!

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2007)

What on earth happened to Shrek? Having waited for months for the new film to be released, my experience last night watching it at the cinema was such a let down! The banal, nay, non-existent plot started some 10 minutes after the only interesting scenes in the film. Did the opening writers/directors die after this opening and were replaced by automatons working on the basis that Shrek fans would come to watch any old rubbish and still applaud? What might have saved the film from complete boredom would have been the music which in the previous films has been terrific and could have stood alone. But what did we get? Two decent pieces of music and zilch else! Who could forget the terrific songs from Shrek 1 & 2 but 3 .... forget it!! Have the producers of the Shrek series become totally complacent, are they lying back counting their millions content to offer this rubbish to the cinema-going public and unashamedly take our money? If Shrek 4, now in production, is going to redeem this film then the paying public needs to tell the film makers that they got this one badly wrong, and they need to sack the writers and directors of this "turkey" and get back to the format that made 1 & 2 such a success