Shrek Forever After (2010)
The fourth movie in the Shrek franchise is the last of the feature-length cartoons. But don’t despair, because you can always watch the Halloween and Christmas specials! Speaking of Christmas, Shrek Forever After is pretty much the fractured fairy tale’s take on It’s a Wonderful Life. While bogged down with domestic burdens, Shrek yells at his wife and kids and storms out of the house in a huff. He meets up with a mysterious magical being who makes it so that he was never born. Sound familiar? Alright, so in this movie, Shrek makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, not with Clarence the Angel, but it’s still a similar premise.
That’s where the similarities stop, though. Instead of a touching tribute to family life or the love he really feels for Fiona, Shrek is thrust into more fighting, kidnapping, underground rebels, and weird futuristic time problems. Pretty much all audience members agreed that the fourth installment was the weakest, which might be why Dreamworks stopped before making a fifth. But I don’t feel too bad about it, and I hope you don’t. It’s pretty rare for a series to end in a way that pleases everyone, and we can always go back and watch our favorite ones from earlier, can’t we? And let’s all remember how much joy and laughter Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Dreamworks studio, all the assorted screenwriters brought us throughout the past nine years. A big thank you all of them!
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Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2001's Shrek here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2004's Shrek 2 here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2007's Shrek the Third here!
That’s where the similarities stop, though. Instead of a touching tribute to family life or the love he really feels for Fiona, Shrek is thrust into more fighting, kidnapping, underground rebels, and weird futuristic time problems. Pretty much all audience members agreed that the fourth installment was the weakest, which might be why Dreamworks stopped before making a fifth. But I don’t feel too bad about it, and I hope you don’t. It’s pretty rare for a series to end in a way that pleases everyone, and we can always go back and watch our favorite ones from earlier, can’t we? And let’s all remember how much joy and laughter Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Dreamworks studio, all the assorted screenwriters brought us throughout the past nine years. A big thank you all of them!
More Julie Andrews movies here!
More Eddie Murphy movies here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2001's Shrek here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2004's Shrek 2 here!
Be sure and check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 2007's Shrek the Third here!