One Too Many Shreks

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2007)

It's too bad studios don't know when to quit when they're ahead-- and I'd be willing to bet that there's a Shrek 4 on the horizon. Mark your calendar to remind yourself not to go. This one was just too much... to much pushing to find the jokes; too many predictable jokes; having Merlin as an old hippie and as the deus ex machina to magically send them back to Far Far Away was way too much. The princesses were predictable and not funny. The baby Shreks were disturbingly ugly, sort of baby-Bobby-Hills and not in a good way. The baby donkey/dragons were cute, but there wasn't enough of the donkey-dragon relationship which probably would have helped the movie, even if it didn't have much to do with the story. There were so many "3 movies" this summer, it was hard to know which to avoid, but Shrek was definitely one of them. Not worth the price of the ticket, but if you have to see it, wait until you can rent the DVD.