Shrek Forever After Review
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Shrek Forever After is the final chapter of the Shrek series featuring Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, and Antonio Banderas. The movie begins with a flashback to when Princess Fiona was still locked up in the tower waiting for her true love to rescue her. The king and queen of Far Far Away were ready to strike a deal with Rumplestiltskin that would free Fiona in exchange for their kingdom, when the deal was interrupted by a messenger telling them their princess had been rescued. Rumple’s dream was crushed until he came upon Shrek, who was having a very bad day from dealing with the same old routine day in and day out. A deal is made between them that would lead to Rumple taking control of Far Far Away and putting Shrek in a position to save not only himself, but the entire ogre race.
This happened to be my least favorite of the Shrek movies. It was still a very good movie to watch, but it didn’t have quite what I was looking for after seeing the previous three movies. My favorite was Shrek 2, mostly because of all the references to other movies and television shows. Of course, the clip that I like the most is when Puss in Boots climbs inside Shrek’s shirt and bursts out like a chest burster from the Alien movies. This movie didn’t seem to have too many of those moments and kind of left me hanging.
The situation that Shrek was in with pretty much living a Groundhog Day situation where he lives every day in almost a complete copy of the day before, and the day before that made me sympathize with him. One thing I don’t want is for my life to become a series of indistinguishable days and nights. Life pretty much puts the majority of us in that situation now with having to get up and go to work everyday, and coming home to have dinner, watch a little television, play a video game, go to sleep, rinse and repeat. That’s a rat race I hope to escape in the near future.
Overall, it was a fun movie and I did enjoy it. We didn’t see it in 3D, as I didn’t think it would really be worth seeing in 3D. I am also a cheapskate, which is why we went to the early bird special and didn’t pay extra for 3D or a later show. Spoiler alert! I did like how it was set in an alternate reality for most of the movie. That happens to be one of my favorite settings for movies or shows that have run a long time and need a bit of a shake up.
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Teri said:
I liked your reference to Groundhog Day. That was my favorite part of the movie, too, the repetitious days. I thought it was interesting how the screenwriter created a feeling of empathy for Shrek (the monotony of his new life and nostalgia for how things used to be), and then suddenly Shrek was the bad guy for wanting, basically, A BREAK. Nothing wrong with that. I thought a nice compromise would have been Shrek going on a mini-vacation by himself, maybe somewhere where nobody would recognize him, and then he could go be an ogre and create ogre-like havoc for a while.
May 23rd, 2010 at 8:34 pm -
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June 1st, 2010 at 6:13 am